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Piers hits back at Heather Mills: 'She was a phone hacker, NOT me'

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

August 4, 2011 | 3 min read

Heather Mills, ex-wife of Sir Paul McCartney, claims someone from the Mirror hacked her phone - and embattled CNN host Piers Morgan turns the tables, citing court claims that she herself was a phone hacker. Morgan repeated his insistence that he did NOT hacking .

In a statement issued by CNN yesterday afternoon, Morgan declared, "What I can say and have knowledge of is that Sir Paul McCartney asserted that Heather Mills illegally intercepted his telephones and leaked confidential material to the media.

"This is well documented and was stated in their divorce case. Further, in his judgment, The Honourable Mr. Justice Bennett wrote of Heather Mills: ‘I am driven to the conclusion that much of her evidence, both written and oral, was not just inconsistent and inaccurate but also less than candid. Overall she was a less than impressive witness.’ Said Morgan, "No doubt everyone will take this and other instances of somewhat extravagant claims by Ms.Mills into account in assessing what credibility and platform her assertions are given.” Mills had alleged on BBC's Newsnight that a journalist from the Mirror Group called her in 2001, and during their conversation, quoted from a private voicemail McCartney - then Mills’ boyfriend - had left on her mobile phone. According to Mills, when she asked the journalist how he’d heard those recordings, she says he admitted that her mobile phone account had been hacked. Mills did not say that Morgan had been involved in the hacking himself. But in a column he wrote for the Daily Mail in 2006, Morgan seemed to suggest that he’d been played similar recordings that McCartney left on Mills’ voicemail. In his statement, Morgan said the BBC had confirmed to him that the journalist Mills was referring to “was not employed by the Daily Mirror. I have no knowledge of any conversation any executive from other newspapers at Trinity Mirror may or may not have had with Heather Mills.” Morgan also repeated the general denial he's made previously about hacking,"To reiterate, I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, nor to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone."

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