Heather Mills and Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney has been reportedly overheard calling Heather Mills a “liar” and saying she wants an £80million divorce settlement.

Paul was spotted at an Eat cafe in Soho Square in London last week with a friend of his late wife Linda, Peter Cox. According to the Mail on Sunday, the two met up so that Peter could give Paul the audio taped diaries Linda recorded about her marriage to Paul. The newspaper claims Paul bought the tapes from Peter for £200,000.

Another customer at the cafe revealed: “Everyone recognised him the moment he walked in. There was a bearded guy waiting for him and they took the table next to me.”

“The bearded guy was carrying this huge white envelope, and when they sat down together he put it down next to Paul and said, ‘This is for you’.”

“Paul immediately picked it up, broke the seal and began rummaging inside. Then he turned to the bearded guy and said something like, ‘We must keep this out of the papers’.”

“Paul told him he had been followed by a journalist that morning but had lost him by getting the driver to double back a few times to give him the slip. He said his driver was up the road keeping a look-out.”

But despite his concern, he went on to speak about his estranged wife and the divorce quite freely. The onlooker reported: “Paul didn’t seem to be worried about who was listening or he wouldn’t have spoken the way he did.”

“They spoke about Linda at first and it was clear that both of them really adored her. Maybe that drew them together but the next minute Sir Paul was telling him all these things that left me unsure of where to look.”

“Paul said, ‘When I first met her she was fantastic. It was good, really good. At first’. Then he said something about how he had been grieving for Linda at the time and that he had lost track of life. I realised that he was talking about Heather.”

“It was obvious to everyone listening, and believe me everyone was listening, that he was very upset. The man is devastated.”

“He said that Linda had always been happy to stay out of the limelight but that Heather seemed to crave it. Then he said he had liked this at first but after a while it got very wearing. Then he said something about how in Linda’s case she never felt the need to make a statement, before going into a very unflattering comparison of her with Heather.

“He said, ‘[Heather]’s not at all nice, or at all compassionate, she just wants the money’. I remember him saying that all she thought about was money and that she had asked for £80million. He said something like, ‘She is going to take me for £80million, because we now know it’s for £80million. All she thinks about is dollars’. He even drew dollar signs to emphasise it. Then he said something like, ‘She wants it all, but no, we’ll try to find a way to sort it out’.”

“Paul said he was trying to put it all to the back of his mind but said he was ‘entrenched’ by it. He said he had tried to remain on friendly terms with her after they separated but then said she ‘flipped’.”

“He said, ‘I was prepared to settle things amicably but suddenly Heather turned and something happened to her after that. She has told so many lies like the one about me being a drunk - just because I sometimes go to pubs. It’s all a pack of lies you know, that I am stingy - that’s another one’.”

“Paul said, ‘When she wrote her autobiography she lied, you know, we all know that. Saying I was a drunk and that I used her. It’s not true. She lies and lies. Then it all goes on and on with her playing up to the papers. And it’s all c**p and rubbish. If she doesn’t get what she wants she’ll pick a fight. It’s all lies that she has told her solicitors and all I can do is to try and keep calm. It’s just my luck to have all these problems. I am really miserable, bullied actually. It just p***** me off, it is such c**p. I am being described as a b****** and it’s just not true’.”