Heather Mills kisses American Melanie Schwartz after competing in an event in Queenstown last month. Source: Getty Images
HEATHER Mills is competing in Thredbo as part of her bid to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics. But don't try asking her for an interview.
The publicist for Sir Paul McCartney's ex-wife has issued a strict set of conditions for interviews - and questions about her one-time marriage to the Beatles frontman and her reported $42 million divorce settlement are out of bounds.
Mills has also demanded she be allowed to edit the story, write the headline and pick the photo for any interview she acquiesces to. Questions about her private life and general negativity is also forbidden.
"The parties agree that no question will be put to HM regarding her marriage to and divorce from Paul McCartney; his new marriage, her private life; any legal proceedings that have involved HM nor any negative media stories," a statement from her publicist outlines.
"The purpose of the interview is for it to feature HM discussing her ski training for 2014 Paralympics, veganism, her general life, how she lost her leg and how and why she started with charity work.''
The publicist added that Mills, and her management, would retain editorial control including approving the headline and photo to be used.
The agreement also asks whether the interview involves a photo shoot and if not, asks where the photos are being sourced from.
UK media have to go a step further by providing the name of the journalist doing the interview "to check if they have ever done nasty interviews with anyone".
"It is agreed that no negative comments (footage) of HM will be used," the contract states.
"Agree that HM will view the final edit to be published/broadcast and have approval over same (not to be unreasonably withheld). Any items not agreed by HM will be deleted and replaced with agreed footage."
It also demands the story - on Paralympic sport which often has to unfairly battle for media coverage - be published only once and any edits or clips must not be used anywhere else or sold to a third party.
Mills, 45, lost her left leg below the knee following a collision with a police motorbike in London in 1993.
In 2002 she wed Sir Paul McCartney and they had a daughter before their high-profile divorce in 2008 resulted in Mills being awarded a multi-million dollar settlement.
After showing promise as a skier, Mills was invited to trial with the Great Britain team and last year won four gold medals at the US Adaptive Alpine Skiing National Championships in Colorado.
Last week she won a silver medal at the New Zealand IPC World Cup and on Tuesday finished fifth in the women's standing giant slalom at Thredbo where she has been sharing the slopes with recreational skiers basking in unusually warm 13-degree temperatures.
Mills is one of 40 inspirational athletes currently competing in the NSW Snowy Mountains, including those who are visually impaired or amputees yet have the courage and skill to ski down a mountain at in excess of 60km/h.
Her journey to what she hopes will lead to selection with Great Britain for the Sochi Paralympic Winter Games has included crashes and injuries to her shoulder and thumb.
"I'm quite a good dancer so eventually I may be able to skirt around the slalom gates, so watch this space," Mills reportedly told the BBC in an interview last year.
"Being older is normally a handicap usually as far as physically is concerned, but mentally you tend to be much stronger because you realise that this (being an athlete) is just a privilege."
The Thredbo event is the first Paralympic alpine skiing world cup ever staged in Australia and runs until Thursday.
Australia won four medals - including gold to Victorian Mitch Gourley - on day two of competition on Tuesday.
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