I've had, you know, my leg chopped off.

He died in January 2011. She told me her father was dead. In March 2007 Kevin Moore Chief Superintendent of Sussex Police said that Mills was running "the risk of being treated as the little boy who cried wolf" and added "We do have to respond to a disproportionate high volume of calls from Heather Mills McCartney because of the situations Heather Mills finds herself in and this is regrettable as it takes officers away from other policing matters".

She came to further public attention in 2000 when it became public that Heather Mills was in a relationship with the former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. After her marriage to McCartney Mills became involved in animal rights advocacy and as of 2012 is a patron of Viva! (Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals) and the Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation. They married in June 2002 and Mills gave birth to Beatrice Milly McCartney on 28 October 2003.