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She said that the media had forgotten her years of charity work and now only printed lies about her.

"We’ve had death threats, I’ve been close to suicide. I’m so upset about this. I’ve had worse threats than a paedophile or a murderer and I’ve done nothing but charity for 20 years.

"Everyone has jumped on the band wagon. My sister was crying her eyes out because that awful Jordan and Peter Andre did a joke on Sunday and I’ve had six amputee girls crying their eyes out because they’re getting bullied at school because people are joking about the loss of my limb. Jonathan Ross said, ‘She’s such an effing liar. We’ll find out she’s got two legs instead of one'."

"For six years, when I lost my leg, I was the model that overcame adversity, inspired other amputees to get on with their lives. Front page of all the newspapers. The Sun, "Model of Courage". They serialised my book. I told my whole life story in my book. It all went to charity. The Sun had it there. I talked about my glamour modelling when I was a teenager. I wanted to be the Marie Whittaker, the Linda Lusardi, the Samantha Fox, that was the thing to be in the eighties. I was a teenager.

"Then they eliminate now my whole 20 years of my life of campaigning and put in things like ‘Hard Core Porn Queen’. All this disgusting stuff from my topless days. And then the poor guy who did this book called Joy For Sex, basically gets this much of an apology, because they call his book a ‘Hard Core Porn’ thing. It’s so ridiculous. Paul knew about my glamour modelling. It was in the papers every week for the three years that we were engaged and they try and say, ‘They broke up because she’s a glamour model’. It is such lies."

Appealing to viewers to help her, Mills said that she planned to take a petition to the European Parliament to change media laws.

"I’m not fighting the press, I’m going to the European Parliament. And we’ll change the law like I did with a group of like-minded people where they have to have responsible journalism! They’ve pushed so many people over the edge. Extraordinary people have written to me. Look at Hillsborough; look at them saying, ‘They looted the pockets of the dead bodies’ when they were trying to find IDs to find out who they are! They urinated all over them."

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