The real reason why Heather Mills is a vegan

HEATHER Mills has credited the vegan diet with saving her life after a car accident left her needing her leg amputated.

Speaking on This Morning yesterday, the TV personality, 50, said abstaining from animal products dramatically improved her health and cured her in just two weeks. The model-turned-businesswoman, pictured, admitted that her veganism was purely used as a means to remedy a spreading infection in her residual limb.

She said: ‘I didn’t go vegan for the animals or the environment. It was just after I lost my leg and the infection was spreading.’ Paul McCartney’s former wife had her leg amputated after sustaining serious injuries in a collision with a police motorbike back in 1993.

She later received a prosthetic leg and resumed her modelling career.

Speaking about life after turning to veganism, she continued: ‘I was healed in two weeks. My stomach was swollen like mad, I crushed my pelvis as well, punctured my lung and split my head.

‘I noticed immediately all the gas all the bloat go down, all the digestive problems I had… my energy came back. It was just incredible.’

She said she had been a raw vegan for two years but found the extreme regime ‘very difficult and boring’, explaining: ‘There’s no point, unless you are really, really sick, going over to a raw vegan diet as you are not going to stick to it.’

Heather even claimed to have improved the health of former US president Bill Clinton. She said: ‘We got Bill Clinton to go vegan and he’s been off medication for seven years.’