Heather Mills writing novel to get around gagging order?

Heather Mills is reportedly planning to write a novel to get around the ban preventing her from talking about her marriage to Paul McCartney.

As part of the couple’s divorce settlement, Heather was ordered not to speak about aspects of the couple’s life together but a source close to the former model has now claimed that Heather is hoping the fictional work will help her get around that.

The source told the Daily Mail: “Heather has written the treatment for a novel about a model and campaigner who marries the most famous rock star in the world.

“It chronicles all the model’s trials and tribulations with the rock legend. It’s a rags-to-riches tale taking in her tough childhood, how she struggled to make it as a model and then how this famous rock star met her at an awards ceremony and how they fell in love.

“She has incorporated all sorts of other characters. There is a hard-nosed professional woman who is part of the rock star’s team who sides against the model and tries to make her life difficult - that will inevitably be seen to be Paul’s divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton.

“The rock star’s first wife had passed away and his children can never get over that fact, so they gang up against the model, who they see as moneygrabbing and an opportunist. Those characters will inevitably seen to be based on McCartney’s children Stella, Mary and James.

“The pair [also] start rowing and the fights often end violently. The rock star is painted as a deeply flawed character whose mind has been warped by years of being treated like a god. He finds solace in drinking and smoking cannabis which gives him mood swings.”

“She will be marketing the book as a work of fiction. But it doesn’t take a genius to realise what is really behind this book - the thing which infuriated her the most about the divorce was that she was gagged from ever telling her side of the marriage.

“This is her way of getting the information out there.”

Heather was awarded a settlement worth £24.3million in March after the couple’s four year marriage ended in May 2006.