Mills claims McCartney physically assaulted her in marriage

By Stone Martindale Oct 18, 2006, 15:34 GMT

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The ongoing battle of Heather Mills and Paul McCartney's divorce will not be amicably resolved as further accusations are made.  Mills has accused her estranged husband of being "physically violent" with her.

Court papers filed by Heather's lawyers claim Paul once tried to choke her and attacked her while she was pregnant.

Paul is also said to have used illegal drugs and drank excessively during their marriage, despite promising to quit.

The former model says Paul subjected her to four violent attacks - including one where he stabbed her in the arm with a broken wine glass. He also allegedly forced her to cancel an essential operation because it clashed with holiday plans.

The Daily Mirror reports that in Los Angeles in November 2002, court papers filed say an inebriated Paul grabbed Heather by the neck and pushed her over a coffee table.

In May 2003, when Heather was four weeks pregnant, she alleges Paul became angry and pushed her into a bath, causing her "shock and distress."

Then again, August 2003, Heather asked Paul if he had been smoking marijuana. She says Paul yelled at her and then "grabbed her neck and started choking her."

The court papers allege Paul, 64, verbally abused Heather and called her an "ungrateful b***h."  Mills alleges that Macca denied her maternal right to breastfeed after their daughter Beatrice was born, saying, "They are my breasts. I don't want a mouthful of breast milk."

Prior to their final bust up, Mills claims Paul threw a bottle of red wine over her, then "lunged at her with the broken, sharp stem of the wine glass, which pierced her arm and left a scar."