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 10:58 pm
1095
delboy Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
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As Logic has pointed out, this is silly…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
1072
Totje Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
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what prey tell were you going to do with the clothes hanger??? or shouldnt i ask
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1087
Wanderer Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
1085
Redrooster, I think they were just giving you a friendly warning. You’ve been good (I think, I haven’t read all of the posts). Enjoy yourself
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thanks for the support
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1090
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
1085…RedRooster
A very plucky attitude, if I may say so
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i have had my feather well and truly ruffled let me tell you…..
January 10th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
1082 Chenier
“…in this country you can only get them at an optician’s.”
Yes, but you can also get them from an optical supplier on-line.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
1085
RedRooster
?????????????
January 10th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
1079
Fair,
You’re GREAT!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
1083
delboy Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
1075,chenier….so what your saying then is being a pissed up doctor does not bring the profession into disrepute….
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It’s a disease.
A treatable and probably curable disease.
You would have problems arguing that a surgeon with diabetes who conks out halfway through an operation is bringing the profession into disrepute….
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Mods and Admin
Unlikely to conk out, would ensure bloodsugar was stable before starting, takes a while for it to plummet to hypo level. Believe me, I know , husband is Type1
January 10th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
1074
Wanderer,
Me neither knew it until recently. Thanks for finding the posts. I only recalled the first two you mentioned. The witty “quarrels” I like. We can’t all the time be serious, the matter is serious enough, sometimes a break is good to calm the nerves.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Anybody know V Fair’s subscription figures ?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
1073 Chenier
As well as trying to put a contact lens into a tiny child’s eye - and out again - and in again - and out again……..And it wouldn’t hide the coloboma anyway as contact lenses only cover the iris. Madeleine’s coloboma was a keyhole extension of the iris extending virtually to the bottom of the conjunctiva. So couldn’t be hidden unless there’s an optician who makes contact lenses that are full eye-sized!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
1093
Stickler
January 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
1089…Totje
Hard to take a sympathetic view of that comment though, don’t you think ?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
10082,chenier Says:
January 10th, 2008 In this country, England, you can only get them at an opticians.
And I doubt that you can get them at all in the Rif mountains…
no no no what I said is the youngsters are walking around the nighclubs etc in these silly kind of coloured contact lenses…they do nothing medically, IE make you see better, they are solely a fashion I tem it appears to be mainly asian youths ,and in england, not sure of the rif mountains, dont listen to metado 2……
January 10th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Madeliene S.L. ,is how they called them
:lol
January 10th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Oh really…
http://gawker.com/343332/is-this-the-way-to-the-madeleine-mccann-movie-auditions
January 10th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
1080
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
1073…chenier
Do you know how many subscribers VF have, chernier ?
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Sorry, haven’t a clue…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Like sand through an hour glass … the worm turns.
Really if you think about it, during the time period of the Vanity Fair interview (October) things were very different. The DNA was a ping-pong game between PJ and the lab. The McCanns were roundly being criticized for showing no remorse or emotions. The denied that they had many detractors, when actually hundreds of thousand of people were questioning their remarks about “responsible except for that one moment.”
Now the DNA has not been refuted–but stands as a match. Kate did her crying video and Gerry did this interview.
Clarry actually ADMITS it’s fun to speculate about movie stars. But really how could they think of capitalizing on this tragedy when there is no real evidence of a kidnapping ring.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
1085…RedRooster
A very plucky attitude, if I may say so.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
1065
Matt.,
I try to look at things from more point of views. Allways do even if I don’t agree.
This I really really really cannot understand.
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delboy,
Thanks for posting that. I really got upset, too big imagination me’s got.
1071
chenier,
Isn’t it possible they’ve added it after the editing? They also might have overlooked it. Or VF has -by accident- printed the unedited version. All explanations don’t make it less “bad” to read someone says something like that though. On the other hand he’s a doctor and it’s possible he made a clinical remark without associating it with his daughter.
I don’t know and don’t want to think about it any more.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
OMG
Just talked with Spanich fwend ,he told me noone, believe in the mccs,
and there are a lot of jokes there
January 10th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
1085
Redrooster, I think they were just giving you a friendly warning. You’ve been good (I think, I haven’t read all of the posts). Enjoy yourself!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
oh god, that’s it , I’m off for a bedtime smoke. It’s been fun today, goodnight.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Ok guys i do not wish to carry on with all this nonsense so this will be my last post on the matter…….
you’ll be releived to hear im sure. I have just wasted a considerable amount of my evening trying to find where i have misbehaved - without any luck i might add. I have just checked all the posts you guys have listed and cant see WTF any of it has to do with me, so i am now going to drown myself in a nice bottle of “Red”
Anyone care to join me
PS you’re not invited you half wit sludgy 
January 10th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
It brings the profession into disrepute to operate while drunk. It also puts the patient at risk.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
1075,chenier….so what your saying then is being a pissed up doctor does not bring the profession into disrepute….
January 10th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
1075
delboy Says:
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…
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In this country, England, you can only get them at an opticians.
And I doubt that you can get them at all in the Rif mountains…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
960
Totje Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
937 May 619 appears to be an innocent enough posting by Ian. How can that be Hideki or Freddy?
Sorry May, I didn’t realise you didn’t realise the posts were deleted and renumbered [this sounds complicated, I know….]
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Think I’ve grasped it now, Totje! I haven’t been able to keep up with so many postings today and that’s when it’s easy to misunderstand. Quite worrying to be so mistaken in a poster.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
1073…chenier
Do you know how many subscribers VF have, chernier ?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
1077 Sledge
It’s a secret
January 10th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
1068…Wanderer
Irretrievable, Wanderer…..no matter what they do.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
This latest theory being championed here the bribery one, who is exactly bribing who to keep quiet, is the money delivered in the blue bag or does it change hands in some dark place.