Madeleine McCann: Gerry McCann Talks With Vanity Fair
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADELEINE: THE BIG INTERVIEW”
“Our regret”
“GERRY: I wish we have never gone to the tapas bar”
“KATE: I wish I’d seen the stranger watching us”
“READ THEIR HEARTBREAKING WORDS INSIDE”
Voyeurs, campaigners, police and handwringers come see the pain, the suffering the agony. Prepare to be heartbroken!
“Riddled with guilt, the distraught” Gerry will tell all to the Mirror. Well, not to the Mirror, rather to Vanity Fair magazine. Journalist Judy Bachrach spoke with Gerry in October near the family home in Rothley, Leicestershire
And the interview is not with Gerry and Kate. Only Gerry McCann was interviewed, says the Mail. Kate McCann’s words come via friends and family
Pages 4 and 5: “I WISH”.
It reads very much like a prayer, or a camping speech by Barack Obama. Says Gerry McCann:
“I wish I hadn’t gone to the tapas bar.
“I wish I’d have stayed in the apartment that night
“I wish I’d stayed in the room when I checked on her five minutes longer”
A wish…
Says Gerry McCann: “”At the time we did it, it was not irresponsible. Of course we feel guilty about not having been there and that is just something we have to deal with for the rest of our lives. You are not asking anything we don’t think about on a daily basis. We live this 24 hours a day”
Gerry says his world went “all black, with maybe tiny points of light” in the days after Madeleine vanished. “We can’t cry our eyes out every day because that’s not helping. So after three days I picked myself up…quicker than Kate could. Grief washes over you. It’s like a big wave, mostly I was able to beat it back”
And the Madeleine ‘Look into my eyes’ campaign? Says Gerry: “We thought it was possible this could hurt her. Her abductor might do something to her eye. But in marketing terms it was a good ploy”
THE SUN: “Life’s bleak but I cling to hope”
Says Gerry McCann: “People can support you in your darkest hours and in our case the darkest hour was of course when Madeleine went missing. Now it is just bleak”
In next month’s Vanity Fair: “The interview with Gerry came as it emerged GORDON BROWN has snubbed the McCanns’ request for a meeting; furious Kate EXPLODED when cops first told her she was a suspect; and family spokesman Clarence Mitchell has given a university SPEECH on the topic Missing Maddie McCann — the perfect PR campaign
“A pal of the McCanns said Kate, 39, believes the family were STALKED by Maddie’s kidnapper in the days before she went missing”. WOW
COUPLE hit back on film. Says Clarence Mitchell, the spokesperson: “It is not us being greedy. It is us being needy“
DAILY MAIL: “It’s all my fault, admits Maddie’s father”
Well, not quite. Gerry McCann is making no confession. He maintains that the fault lies with a kidnapper. Says the Mail: “Gerry McCann is tortured by guilt that Madeleine’s disappearance is his fault”
Will he tell all? Mr McCann tells Vanity Fair’s Judy Bachrach: “I can’t talk to you about the details of what happened. I live under threat from the Portuguese - if I do talk - of two years’ imprisonment”
“THIRD POLICE SUSPECT BREAKS HIS SILENCE” – Says Robert Murat to Vanity Fair: “All I can say is that I am innocent”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE - MOTHER IS SHUNNED BY PRIEST”
Page 9: “KATE’S SCREAMS AS POLICE TOLD HER: YOU’RE A SUSPECT – KATE McCann screamed when told by police that she was a suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance, it emerged yesterday. Opening the door of her rented villa to a Portuguese officer the family had come to know, Kate, 39, shouted: ‘Do you honestly believe that I would murder my own child?’”
Gerry McCann is a “39-year-old cardiologist”. Facts!
On the speculation: “Gerry says bitterly: ‘Yes, yes, I know. Kate killed her in a frenzy, Madeleine was sedated by us, she fell down the stairs – in which case you would have thought they’d have found her body. I’ve heard all of that. There are a huge number of theories in the media. But what I want to know is, who told them all that?’”
DAILY STAR: “Anguished and painfully thin, his wife Kate was too upset to answer even a single question during the interview with glossy US magazine Vanity Fair. Gerry revealed in the 7,500-word magazine article he had to be coaxed by a counsellor into talking publicly about his daughter in the days after she disappeared”
DAILY RECORD: “Maddie’s Dad: Slim Chance Of Getting Her Back”
“Distraught Gerry McCann has admitted the chances of him seeing his missing daughter Madeleine again are ‘slim’”
VANITY FAIR: “Unanswered Prayers”
“After three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared on a family vacation in Portugal, her parents pursued a high-stakes strategy: media saturation. It succeeded beyond their wildest imaginings—winning the aid of everyone from J. K. Rowling to the Pope—and failed miserably. Getting the first in-depth interview with Gerry McCann since he and his wife, Kate, were declared suspects, the author re-traces their footsteps to their daughter’s empty bed”
And then a policeman appeared. His name Ricardo. “Because for months they used to have regular weekly meetings with the Portuguese police, and then they stopped,” recalls Gerry’s older sister Trish Cameron
“Do you have something to tell us?” Ricardo asked.
“No,” Kate replied. “Do you have something to tell us?”
“He nodded. “Yes. You are being made arguidos”…
Eight months of talking - read it all…
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January 10th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
FFS i’ve tried this ctrl f thing and cant get it to bloody work so PLEASE help….if i’ve done something wrong can someone, anyone give me a post number PLEEEEEEEEEEASE
January 10th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
1042…May
Maybe she was shouting at him.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
1041…Stan
If he didn’t he would have been threatening to sue by now.
No threats heard yet.
So must be the real thing.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
It’s good to know that the GMC is on the ball:
‘A consultant surgeon who put patients at risk by drinking up to three bottles of vodka a day has been suspended for 12 months….At times the orthopaedic surgeon was so drunk he did not know who he was, the General Medical Council heard.’
On the other hand, this may not be good news for Totje:
‘Soon after the incident the doctor was put on a flight back to Holland where he has been working ever since.’
I hasten to add that he apparently dried out before he got there. Probably.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=506776&in_page_id=1770
January 10th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
886
Slyfox Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
865
May Says:
This probably has nothing to do with anything but if Kate was an only child, and very much a girl child, maybe she felt it difficult to deal with the practicalities of dealing with three very young children, one of which always got Gerry’s attention. You know, the first child/girl.
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You could be right, Slyfox. Madeleine must obviously have found more comfort from her Dad, or why would she have been calling for him for 2 hours that night? Amazing to think that G can appear so utterly unmoved by the loss of his daughter, when she apparently thought so highly of him - unless he was simply preferable to the alternative.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
“And the Madeleine ‘Look into my eyes’ campaign? Says Gerry: “We thought it was possible this could hurt her. Her abductor might do something to her eye. But in marketing terms it was a good ploy”
I’ve only just read that.
I hate the McCann’s, but I still find this too incredible to believe. Did he really say this??
January 10th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
1034…Sledgehammer
Do tell us all again about your posts when known as soothsayer….for months
you posted inside info. Then….LOL…..it all went wrong for you.
Is that why you don’t dare risk having any idea now ?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
1036
chenier Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
………..
do you have any idea of post numbers cause i just dont know anything about this and i would like to find out. Do you know what this “ctrl F thingy is as well ??
January 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
RR,
On top of the thread you can choose “Show all” choose that. All posts will appear.
Then press Ctrl and at the same moment the “F”
A search box will appear.
Type something like “XXXX says” or “yellow card” or “Redrooster says” and press enter.
All secrets will be revealed then!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I do believe it is a chapter in the ‘bible’ that was passed around on here as gospel.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
1028
RedRooster Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
1024
look what the hell has happened today, please can someone tell me….if i have done something can someone point me in the right direction, like a post no or something please. Im getting the feeling you guys know something i dont.
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Nothing of any importance in the great scheme of things; we had a spot of trouble with a recidivist nutter but that particular incarnation got the chop.
I suppose that the M&A may be working on a ’shoot first ask questions later’ policy…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
1030
Totje Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
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“the ctrl F thing ?” blimey i have missed something
help please i dont know what you mean and im starting to get concerned. It may not seem like it but i have tried to behave myself lately SORRY everyone (except sludgy - you deserve what you get) 
January 10th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Matt the twat, the only thing you are rattling are your gums.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Or was that Superman? [krypton]
January 10th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Nite nite Batman, beware of Krypton
January 10th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
We’re out of cava.
So now it’s Pinot Gris I guess 
January 10th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
1016
RedRooster,
No nothing serious. Thought you were around, I seem to remember you made a post a couple of numbers later. I might be mistaken.
Use the Ctrl F thing if you really want to find the post.
Beware of sounding like GM, I don’t like him, but then hey, I don’t know him. I’ve only seen video’s and pictures so I could be wrong. He has to have ’something’ to keep all the friends quiet about that evening.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
1026
Thanks, Batman. That’s quite a coincidence, I guess there really should be a phone book for them. Night.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
1024
man on a hill Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
RedRooster
I see you as a perfectly machined anti Garth weapon. You give Garth a bigger headache than he gives us. Please carry on but remember it’s tough at the front line and we wouldn’t want to lose you.
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look what the hell has happened today, please can someone tell me….if i have done something can someone point me in the right direction, like a post no or something please. Im getting the feeling you guys know something i dont.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Well its dark now, so must fly. Have fun all. Night night.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
1020 wanderer
evidently she is no relation - just another strange little coincidence.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Nite Ade
Yampster, now YOU should add
Oh no, the Waltons! Nite nite nite JohnBoy ….
January 10th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
RedRooster
I see you as a perfectly machined anti Garth weapon. You give Garth a bigger headache than he gives us. Please carry on but remember it’s tough at the front line and we wouldn’t want to lose you.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
firestar Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
1012
delboy Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
don’t forget the vatican have their own hit-men, the ones that wear the barbed wire underpants.
I know with a prick up their ass…sounds about right..
January 10th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
1014
Ade Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
big city day tomorrow
looks like ade’s going to Hotten for the day.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
i could do with a case of rioja - any going spare? or do i have to wait for the mcc estate to go under the hammer?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
1013
She made them rent it?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
993
Joanie Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Like to share my favorite youtube video re: the mcc. It’s called Happy Talk, From: IBeThe Badman and ya gotta watch it to the very end, it’s really great and also take a moment and read some of the comments. I’d be interested in watching others fav videos on youTube also.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vEAySu-hTJo
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Oh my gosh, just too funny. It’s gotta be the best. LOLOL
January 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
1010
Wanderer Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
1007
Don’t worry Duncan, if need be, the cameras could magically stop working…just get in with Brown.
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Blair would be better; he’s got more money…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
829…sledgehammer aka soothsayer
So glad I’ve rattled your cot.
Now get back to sleep in your Glasgow tenement you silly old woman.