Paul McCartney says he avoids divorce coverage so as not to see private life on front pages
LONDON — Paul McCartney avoids reading media coverage of his difficult divorce because he does not want to see the details of his private life on front pages, he said in an interview published Saturday.
McCartney and his second wife, Heather Mills McCartney, are in the middle of divorce proceedings. The former Beatle told the Guardian’s Weekend magazine that the situation has brought him closer to his grown children from his marriage to Linda McCartney.
"I’m going through great struggles, but I’m feeling pretty good,” McCartney was quoted as saying. "I have a lot of good support, particularly from my family. In difficult moments like this, it’s when a loving family shines through.”
McCartney said it is difficult to see his private life exposed.
"There’s only one real answer to the massive press coverage — don’t look,” he said. "So I don’t read it.”
It is estimated that the divorce will cost McCartney $200 million, reducing his fortune to $1.4 billion, according to The Sunday Times’ annual Rich List.
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Ray is promoting the Great American Bake Sale, a national campaign in which participants hold bake sales this summer to raise money to feed hungry children.
"Imagine what it’s really like to go hungry,” Ray said on ABC’s "This Week” broadcast on Sunday. "And then imagine what that must be like for a small child, how that must make them feel, completely lesser-than in every way; they’re not good enough to get food?”
The Great American Bake Sale was created in the charity Share Our Strength in partnership with PARADE Magazine. This year it runs from May 19 to August 31.
"I mean, it’s a very simple concept,” Ray said. "When you go togreatamericanbakesale.org, you can read all about it and invite individuals of any age to throw a bake sale, starting this weekend and throughout the summer, to raise money to help feed hungry kids in their community.”
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