Sir Paul: All He Needs Is Love, Therapy
Apparently, Sir Paul McCartney can get by with a little help from his shrink.
The former Beatle revealed in an interview with Britain's Radio Times that he is seeing a psychiatrist to help him deal with his very public and ugly divorce from estranged wife Heather Mills McCartney.
McCartney confirmed that he sought out counseling after the breakup of his four-year marriage to the 38-year-old model in May and the initiation of divorce proceedings in July. The music icon also acknowledged that therapy is something he has turned to before in previous times of personal crisis.
"I've seen psychiatrists in my time," the 64-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer told the magazine. "It's not a bad idea to have someone to talk to. It's normally over family matters."
McCartney added that getting back to his music again has been therapeutic.
"You can be in an argument or feeling down, and if you're lucky enough to be able to write, you go into a corner and work your way through the emotions," he continued. "Instead of sitting down with a psychiatrist, you sing, 'I've been feeling bad.' "
But when he really feels like a "Nowhere Man," McCartney said there's nothing like getting advice from an analyst to make sure it's getting better all the time.
Lawyers for the "Silly Love Songs" singer and his estranged missus continue to privately work out the details of their split, including the division of his $1.6 billion fortune and custody arrangements for their three-year-old daughter, Beatrice.
Mills McCartney took to the airwaves in the U.S. last month to defend herself from tabloid tales. The antilandmine activist told Extra that 85 percent of her income goes to charity, that she "fell in love unconditionally" with McCartney and denied reports she's struck up an affair with her trainer, Ben Amigoni, adding that she had no plans to marry again.
Mills McCartney declined to comment directly on the divorce proceedings, as has McCartney, who said through his publicist that he would remain mum to "maintain some dignity in what is a private matter."
In the meantime, McCartney is focusing on plugging his newly released classical album, Ecce Cor Meumm (whose translation means "behold my heart"), which is dedicated to his first wife, Linda, who died from breast cancer in 1998.
And in case anyone's wondering whether the bitter divorce has affected his standing in Britain, think again. McCartney is currently one of three British personalities, along with fellow crooner Morrissey and TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough, vying in a new BBC poll for the title of the U.K.'s greatest living icon. The winner will be unveiled Dec. 16.
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