Stella McCartney reflects on mum Linda’s ‘ridicule’ from Beatles fans: ‘It breaks my heart’

Stella McCartney has opened up astir really wounded her mother Linda was by nan bullying she received from fans of her hubby Paul astatine nan tallness of The Beatles’ fame.

Paul McCartney first crossed paths pinch Linda Eastman successful 1966, earlier they were decently introduced nan pursuing year. The mates tied nan knot successful 1961 and, pursuing nan disbanding of The Beatles successful 1970, performed together successful nan set Wings.

Having antecedently worked arsenic a photographer, whose images had appeared connected nan screen of Rolling Stone, Linda didn’t travel from a philharmonic background, but sang and played keys successful nan group. As a result, she faced disapproval from fans who questioned her inclusion and whether she was a deserving personnel of Wings.

The hatred sent to Linda – who died of crab successful 1998 aged 56 – is discussed by nan couple’s manner designer girl Stella, 54, successful nan caller archival documentary, Paul McCartney: Man connected nan Run.

In nan film, which arrives connected Prime Video connected 27 February pursuing a constricted cinema merchandise past week, Stella opened up astir nan effect of nan disapproval connected her mother.

“She wasn't a cookie-cutter illustration of personification you put successful a band. What they, and she especially, had to spell through, for illustration erstwhile they isolated her sound and bullied her? I mean, it breaks my heart,” she said. “I cognize that location was symptom there. I knew she hurt. She wasn't cold.”

It was Paul, 83, who taught Linda to play keyboard pursuing The Beatles’ split, pinch Paul admitting successful nan documentary that nan thought of his woman to subordinate Wings came to him successful nan “spur of nan moment”.

However, he was speedy to take sides his precocious first wife, describing really he disagreed pinch nan critics who said: “She can't do this, she can't sing, she can't play piano, she can't do anything. Oh, they're crazy man, what's he sewage his aged woman successful nan set for? Who nan hellhole is this?’”

Instead, Paul said that Linda gave nan songs a “special sound”. The couple, who had 4 children together, performed successful Wings alongside Denny Laine connected guitar and vocals, while Denny Seiwell played drums.

As Wings, nan McCartneys won respective Grammy Awards, and moreover earned an Oscar information for their James Bond taxable “Live and Let Die”.

While Wings divided successful 1981, Linda continued to execute pinch Paul until 1993. Having first gone vegetarian successful 1975, nan mates created a scope of vegetarian foods nether Linda’s sanction successful 1991.

Linda was diagnosed pinch bosom crab successful 1995, and died of nan illness successful 1998. Paul went connected to remarry doubly more: to Heather Mills from 2002 to 2008, and to Nancy Shevell successful 2011.