Mills Testifies Under Oath Regarding Alleged Recording of McCartney's Phone Call

On 20 December 2011, Piers Morgan appeared as a witness by satellite link from the United States at the Leveson Inquiry. While he said he had no reason to believe that phone hacking had occurred at the Mirror while he was in charge there, he admitted to hearing a recording of an answerphone message left by Paul McCartney for Heather Mills, but refused to 'discuss where that tape was played or who made it – it would compromise a source.' Appearing as a witness at the same Inquiry on 9 February 2012, Mills was asked under oath if she had ever made a recording of McCartney's phone call or had played it to Morgan; she replied: 'Never'. She said that she had never authorised Morgan, or anybody, to access or listen to her voicemails. Mills told the inquiry that Morgan, 'a man that has written nothing but awful things about me for years', would have relished telling the inquiry if she had played a personal voicemail message to him.