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 10:43 pm
you dont have to go to optitions they are available all over the place just knowing where,a lot of youngsters are walking around with them, some kind of fashion thing…….not medical at all…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
1051
delboy Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
10043 ,chenier, wouldnt that have been easier for o’brien then? instead of all this crap….12months,its almost been that long now for the maddie case….
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Alcoholism is a disease which can be treated; hence the suspension rather than being struck off.
Bringing the profession into disrepute is not a disease, and it can’t be fixed….
January 10th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
1072
I thought so Totje, just was making sure. As if you were a Mod/Admin, the message did really need to get to Rooster. Also, I was checking because I didn’t realize Carmen was a Mod until recently, so I wasn’t for sure, thought it better to just ask.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
1070
delboy Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
wouldnt have to pluck madeleines eye out, you can buy those lense thingy’s nowadays, coloured contact lenses….
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Er, most opticians would notice something a bit odd about it. And there aren’t that many opticians in the wild remote corners of Morocco where the dastardly villain is alleged to be holding her…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
1059
Wanderer
Right, I’m no mod and thank heaven for that.
Just a friendly warning for RR not to get into a too deep fight with well we know who.
Btw RR and I are “friends”, as long as I don’t use the clothes-hanger.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
1061
Totje Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Her abductor might do something to her eye
That made my stomach turn. I knew doctors aren’t good at communication, but this…..
Why hasn’t anyone had the sense to remove or rephrase that?
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Vanity Fair paid money to the Fund. Presumably the Fund is so desperate it agreed to the publication…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
wouldnt have to pluck madeleines eye out, you can buy those lense thingy’s nowadays, coloured contact lenses….
January 10th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I remember the rooster asked for help before as the rooster is a noobie, it all got very messy with firestar and myself helping the noobie with cut/paste, ended up with firestar supply some rather painful advice to the rooster.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
1065
I agree, Matt.
I do wonder what they’ll try to do to correct these two foul-ups (comments such as that and the film).
January 10th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
1054
Cheryl Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
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These are called hypotheses.
Not many saints frequent Anorak.
If you wish to be helpful you could explain why Gerry decided that an abductor blinding Mdeleine in one eye would be ok if it was a good marketing ploy…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
1046
RedRooster,
Don’t make a fuss about it RR, it wasn’t important.
What was important was we had a reincarnation over here. Look at chenier’s post 720.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
1061…Totje
I think the important thing is …that he said it.
A truely awful thing to say….and the following comment was even more
loathsome.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
1057,fair….they are in my general too…..
doctors get cover ups all the way, they are in short supply so they dont get struck off that easy…….I know one that takes three months a year of to go sailing,says he can, there will always be a job to come back to cos they need him,awight for some eh!!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
1049
chenier Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
1039
……thank im on my way to see what all the fuss is about
:1048
Wanderer Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:27
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thanks
January 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
1055…chenier
I still can’t figure why they should for those reasons.
To me…it just wouldn’t be worth it.
But, of course, they could be much more involved that we know.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
1044 Matt.
1041…Stan
Her abductor might do something to her eye
That made my stomach turn. I knew doctors aren’t good at communication, but this…..
Why hasn’t anyone had the sense to remove or rephrase that?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
1050
man on a hill Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
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We aim to please…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Redrooster,
497, 669, 931, 985, 991, 995
497 and 985 seem to be applicable to you. Although, I don’t believe Totje is part of Mods and Admin (I have no idea), so her warning of you for a yellow card, I believe, was just a friendly, “don’t you go get a yellow card!”/ “I won’t go into that with you because I don’t want to get tied up in the fights and be at risk of yellow cards” or something along those lines. Perhaps they can confirm or Mods and Admin can…anyone, as I’m losing the plot.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I noticed that Gerry said a very strange thing - for a doctor - in the Vanity F interview. He said they’d been a bit worried about mentioning M’s eye in case the abductor did something to it. How very strange. What could “the abductor” have conceivably done to her eye? As a doctor, Gerry would have known that nothing could be done to change its appearance so did he think that “the abductor” might have taken her eye out? Did he think that “the abductor” would think that Madeleine would be less noticeable with only ONE eye?????
What humbug! Just shows what a lot of cant he is speaking - meaningless cant to try to pull the wool over everyone else’s eyes.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
1043
Doctors are notoriously heavy drinkers…in general.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
1038
Totje Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
RR,
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“text not found” now if you dont mind im getting a little pissed off now, can you just direct me to a post number cause i really cant be arsed anymore….im sorry to be so blunt but i dont understand
January 10th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
1047
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
1043…chenier
Geez……..some Dr’s huh ?
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Yep.
Now tell me again that none of the T7 would have had anything to cover up…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
737
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
735…man on a hill
I see.
But it still doesn’t fit to me.
If the McCann’s had caused her death…I’d be blowed if I, as a friend,
would even think for one moment of helping them to dispose of her
body. There has to be something else to cause them to help out.
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Excuse me, I thought no decisions have been made yet in the case by the Police on who did what, did not do, etc, etc., etc.? Oh, I keep forgetting the Chapter according to “St. Whoever” is writing it and added to the gospel.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
1046…RedRooster
Wasn’t aware of anything done wrong, RR.
Ask M & A to clarify.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
1043
chenier,
Thanks for the warning. No need for a orthopaedic surgeon YET.
Although MrT had a surgery in 2006. He survived, I nearly didn’t
January 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
10043 ,chenier, wouldnt that have been easier for o’brien then? instead of all this crap….12months,its almost been that long now for the maddie case….
January 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
1036 chenier
“recidivist”- I’m so thick i thought that was a spelling error. I’m making a note of it now.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
1039
RedRooster Says:
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.
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Try post 720
January 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
1039
Redrooster, it just says Garth got a yellow card. And then someone mentioned one to you (about warning you not to get into spats), as everyone is potentially up for them with prolonged spats, etc.
That or perhaps someone thinks you could be Garth? As you’re a red rooster? I have no idea. Or perhaps someone commented that you were a match for Garth because you are just as persistent, etc. but the others still don’t want to see you get a yellow card, hence the warnings? In any case, you said yourself that you’re trying to behave, so I don’t think you need to worry that much right now.
I’ll get you the post numbers…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
1043…chenier
Geez……..some Dr’s huh ?