The Daily Mail is reporting that Heather Mills may not be quite as 100% evil like we thought. There’s a chance she is only 97% evil – and apparently three percent either way can make a big difference. The Mail is reporting that Sir Paul McCartney has a variety of moderately serious heart ailments. He was diagnosed with a heart murmur two years ago and was put on Warfarin, a blood thinner. Warfarin has a really long list of medications you can’t take with it, and you can’t drink. But Sir Paul refused to quit, and needed to have a coronary angioplasty in September – though it’s not clear if that was the result of his refusal to quit drinking while on the Warfarin. Heather Mills’ people are claiming that many of the couples’ fights were due to her insistence that he stop drinking and take better care of himself. However the Daily Mail points out that the emergence of McCartney’s heart murmur coincided with the breakdown of his relationship, and intimates that the relationship problems caused the murmur, and not the other way around.

It is alleged that despite being told by doctors that alcohol consumption does not mix well with the anti-coagulant drug, he refused to stop drinking. That refusal is said to have led to a number of rows with his now-estranged wife. It emerged last week that Sir Paul had coronary angioplasty operation to increase blood flow to his heart in September.

A source told a U.S. newspaper: “This was a major source of problems between him and Heather Mills. He was receiving electrical shocks over the two years on his chest to help with his heart and was under strict instructions to stop drinking completely, which he didn’t do. It’s not a threatening condition, he just needs to take better care of himself.”

It was even claimed yesterday that Miss Mills postponed a hip operation in April 2006 for her husband to have heart treatment. The source told the New York Post: “He was abusing his body. She (Mills) focused on him first.”

[From the Daily Mail]

McCartney’s people aren’t agreeing with the claims and have said they think the stories were planted by Heather or her publicist. Considering everything we know about her, I have a hard time believing Heather Mills did much of anything selflessly for someone else, including her husband. I can imagine her berating and lecturing him, but that’s not exactly the most effective way to get a person to take better care of himself. If anything, it just makes them want to drink more.