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…
Posted: 10th, January 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,344) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
- leesmith on Michelle Obama Is A Monkey And Other Offensive Google Images
- magnetite on Church Gives Soul Tattoos To Worshippers
- Evie Walton on Peter Andre ‘Begs’ Katie Price To Come Home
- yampster on The Chilcot Inquiry Into The Iraq War, In Pictures
- yampster on Join The Campaign For Straight Gay Marriages
January 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
1045
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
1042…May
Maybe she was shouting at him.
****************
Such awful possibilities, Matt.
Had wondered if anything, like an accident/fall, had occurred whilst the revellers were at Chaplins, and the consequences were discovered when they returned. I don’t suppose whoever was sent to summon them back was given the opportunity to enter the Apt with them on their return…?
January 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
1162…RedRooster
G’night Rooster.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
1146
RedRooster,
Yep, mates
Cheers!
January 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
1161…Fair
Ah…that one.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
nite all xxxx
January 10th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Matt 1157
1137
January 10th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
1159…delboy
G’night delboy.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
say what you want about this case….all I can see at the minute is the same as I see on tv reality type shit…….its all me me me me money money money,thats it……the real matter is a child may be dead because her parents put themselves first…end of…c u later….
January 10th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
The GMC will need to do nothing with G.Mc - The patients will decide for themselves. I remember a report when G.mc went back to work which said that they would honour any request from a patient who did not want to be seen by gerryboy - give it a few months whatever happens and (in my opinion) he will become natural wasteage - he will probably take over from Blair as Middle East envoy or whatever his title was before he was head hunted into the world of banking (did I spell that correctly??) w - banking? just dont look right!!
January 10th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
1155…Fair
Which one ?
January 10th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
1115
Hi Fair ,
Lulu, I still miss her! Don’t know where she went. Someone had a go at her, she got the flu and never returned. I hope she’s lurking and returns soon. I miss Rationalist too. I think she’s now in Australia.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
1151 Matt
Yes, watching it on sky. Great man.
Astute refered to your other post!
January 10th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
1143…can’t say no
Goodnight, can’t say no.
Sleep well.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
1148…Totje
Doubtful if a misprint.
Another PR disaster.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
whats going on this blody laptop, damn srceen going all blurred
January 10th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
1144…Fair
Yes….a gentleman through and through too….would have been 88 in July.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
1142
Ciara-Louise Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Goodnight RR, ’til tomorrow…don’t be up all night ..
C-Lou xx
…………………….
nite nite xxx
January 10th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
1096
Matt.
Yep. If mrT would have said something like that, we’d have a funeral soon. And not mine
Unless they’ve misquoted him [as I know papers do] and in that case I would go to prison for killing the idiot who checked the the interview before it was printed. 
January 10th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Mods and Admin
Hehehe
January 10th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
What if (see Tinsel 673) a child who was sedated on 2nd May fell out of bed and cried for two hours with the pain caused by a head injury. Eventually the parents were found and with the help of their friends tried to treat the injuries unsuccessfully and never called an ambulance. Numerous people could be incriminated: Those who supplied the drug, those who administered it, those who left the child alone in the first place, those who treated the injuries while under the influence of alcohol and those who did not call the emergency services. Not only could they be subject to prosecution but could be struck off the medical register. regardless of what other work they could take up afterwards it would not be as lucrative and RESPECT would be lost, big trouble for a former Doctor.
Happy New Year.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
1139
can’t say no Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
1136
RedRooster
Maybe some feathers , you’ll see
…………..
======================
1140
Totje Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Redrooster,
Nice Pinot Gris over here. No red for me, thanks [assuming I’m invited] it makes me -to soon- drunk.
…………………….
of course you’re invited, yu@re all invited - i’ll crack open another bottle
were mates aint we 
January 10th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Sally Says:
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
*********************
This Royal Tour by the McCanns would upstage any future documentary they hope to release. Hope it can get a public showing first - just to enlighten the masses. And a happy ending too!!
January 10th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
1137 Matt
You are very astute
Sir Edmund, what a legend.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Matt ,you just killed with that
Till later / tomorrow
January 10th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Goodnight RR, ’til tomorrow…don’t be up all night ..
C-Lou xx
January 10th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
1137
Matt.
young chick ????
I’m 98
but txs
January 10th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Redrooster,
Nice Pinot Gris over here. No red for me, thanks [assuming I'm invited] it makes me -to soon- drunk.
Sorry if I’ve made you waiste your time. Told you it wasn’t important. Seems you’ve missed that post. And now don’t wind up again, please, it’s too late for that.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
1136
RedRooster
Maybe some feathers , you’ll see
January 10th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Jesus can you guys slow down a bit - bloody hell you’ve nearly finished the bottle already
January 10th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
1135…can’t say no
A young chick like you needs to watch out for that crafty rooster.