--- title: Heather Mills Throws Shade at Paul McCartney description: Heather Mills says she oversees their daughter's musical education canonical: https://time.com/3964165/paul-mccartneys-heather-mills-music-interview/ author: Megan Gibson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-20T11:32:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:18.563Z og:title: Heather Mills Throws Shade at Paul McCartney og:description: Heather Mills says she oversees their daughter's musical education og:url: https://time.com/3964165/paul-mccartneys-heather-mills-music-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc24310307dfbfc8/69885b90e20a876687a8c579/heather-mills.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Heather Mills og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Heather Mills Throws Shade at Paul McCartney twitter:description: Heather Mills says she oversees their daughter's musical education twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc24310307dfbfc8/69885b90e20a876687a8c579/heather-mills.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Paul McCartney's Ex-Wife Says She Teaches Daughter Music, not the Beatle by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Jul 20, 2015 11:32 AM UTC  Heather Mills attends a Gala Performance of "Yarico" hosted by show producer Jodie Kidd at the Bijou Theatre, London Theatre Workshop, on February 19, 2015 in London, England. Heather Mills attends a Gala Performance of "Yarico" hosted by show producer Jodie Kidd at the Bijou Theatre, London Theatre Workshop, on February 19, 2015 in London, England.David M. Benett—Getty Images by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Jul 20, 2015 11:32 AM UTC It’s been seven years since Paul McCartney and Heather Mills divorced, but it seems time hasn’t healed some wounds. In an interview with the [_Guardian_](http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/17/heather-mills-my-family-values), Mills threw shade at the former Beatle, saying, “I don’t want to go into my second marriage too much because if you haven’t got something nice to say about someone you shouldn’t say anything at all, and it had a lot to do with the person I married.” She also opened up about the former couple’s daughter, Beatrice, and revealed who is overseeing the 11-year-old girl’s musical education: “I taught her the saxophone, because her father can’t read music so I do all the music teaching.” Mills also noted that, “Beatrice hates fame and the whole limelight thing. She wants to be a marine biologist, not a pop star.” Ouch. Though it seems it’s not all bad blood between the exes, as Mills does concede that Beatrice is “a brilliant poet so obviously gets that from \[her father\].” Heather Mills Throws Shade at Paul McCartney ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3964165/paul-mccartneys-heather-mills-music-interview/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3964165/paul-mccartneys-heather-mills-music-interview/"},"headline":"Paul McCartney's Ex-Wife Says She Teaches Daughter Music, not the Beatle","datePublished":"2015-07-20T11:32:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:18.563Z","description":"Heather Mills says she oversees their daughter's musical education","url":"https://time.com/3964165/paul-mccartneys-heather-mills-music-interview/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc24310307dfbfc8/69885b90e20a876687a8c579/heather-mills.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc24310307dfbfc8/69885b90e20a876687a8c579/heather-mills.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Heather Mills","caption":"Heather Mills","creditText":"David M. 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