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
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January 10th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
322…chenier
And Dr G P “loathes” the Press….yet whores himself to them regularly.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Great little gem hidden in a small box in the latest private eye, which just hit the doormat:
“Jonathan Cainier, Britain’s Top Astrophysicist, Gives His Predictions for 2008
1. Maddy will be found
on the front page
of every newspaper
until she is not found”
nice, fun one that
January 10th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
326 Logic
Is if defined somehwere? In a case or a statute?
January 10th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
319 Brandon
What happened?
January 10th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
257 Salomon ES
I realise you are using the term “infanticide” loosely in the context of what you are speaking about, but this crime really only refers to the killing of infants of less than one year old (in the UK).
January 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
hash ,mob ,aranoid ,without sin
If yo are a good parent ???
January 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
311 What better excuse to be secretive than blame some feared consequences?
How many times in life have you come across people refusing to explain somehting they are ‘doing’ to you by saying ‘I cant tell you for reasons I cant tell you’.
Its what people do. It saves people from telling the truth.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
315
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
300…chenier
And Politico’s prey upon the voters personal hates.
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Not to mention the journos who work up hate campaigns in order to sell more articles about the currently fashionable hateful thing…
January 10th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
sorry ,i’m not reading yor posts
Anyone call him?
January 10th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Ferdinand
It’s not very nice to hate (and I don’t really hate them, I hate their media image) but as it’s based on the McCanns statements and behaviour and I’m not threatening to kill them I don’t think it’s unacceptable.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
318
can’t say no Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
listing Gaunty
What a spin
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Hero to zero
or what!!!!!!!!!
January 10th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
listing Gaunty
What a spin
January 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
313 dcb
Depends - if they are paid for by the fund or the double glazing JW!
January 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
312
Ferdinand Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
300 chenier Says:
“Difficult to see how capitalism would survive without them…”
Maybe, but we were talking about ethics.
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No, you were talking about honour.
There is a very big difference…
January 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
300…chenier
And Politico’s prey upon the voters personal hates.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
We’ll know all the answers soon:
“• Psychic investigators from a hit US television show will attempt to solve the Madeleine mystery. Three clairvoyants from Haunting Evidence will travel to Praia da Luz in a bid to find the missing four-year-old.”
January 10th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
304 can’t say no
Absolutely - no doubt at all. This is about Gerry’s job - ironic as he clearly shouldnt be in a job that requires any judgement whatsoever.
No wonder he is advisor all over the place, keeps him away from actually touching patients.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
300 chenier Says:
“Difficult to see how capitalism would survive without them…”
Maybe, but we were talking about ethics.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
If the McCanns know nothing about what happened to Madeleine, then their best hope of finding her would have been to work closely, and with as much secrecy as possible, with the police. The only reason not to would be if they believed the police were involved.
A few months ago Kate McCann said she would risk jail to tell the truth about the 3rd of May.
What is it, at this stage, Gerry McCann risks by not telling everything he knows? Two years in prison?
Please.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
296…Slyfox
The Pope and Father Jose don’t seem too impressed.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
can’t say no - has there been anymore news on the TV today?
January 10th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
295 man on a hill
Excellent comparison.
Being put in charge of the spin is like being the doorman.
If Clarence were so bright he would have prevented the burst pipes and not had to deal with them after. I think he wants the disasters so he has something to deal with (some ‘reason for being’).
He should immediately have put a professional into Gerrys blogs to control them and make them ’spin’ - they are the laughing stock of the world, yet they are the main portal from Gerry. Gerry is a nightmare at PR and marketting, though he thinks he is ‘good at it’.
At least the jogging stories have stopped (so maybe Clarence has had some influence?).
January 10th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Ferdinand
That was blunter that I meant it to be. But it really it is very obvious why people are interested in the story.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
(Goes off onto what he is doing with his 15 year old daughter - proposing to allow her to go to the village on her own when they next go on holiday)
Rob: I think you are wrong. This is a different world we live in. You can’t be too careful. What Gerry and Kate did was irresponsible.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
The priest who married them wouldnt have buried her would he?
January 10th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
If Gm was hospital cleaner he would have been hung drawn and quartered.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
SALOMOM ES well if the police are the only ones with this evidence could it not be a tactic to draw confession from guilty concionce as a confession is the most likly way to secure coviction.and probably the only way after media hype.no corpus delecti ,no crime scene ,no proof.many cases in rescent years have sucseeded in prosecuting on circumstancial evidence.what are the known facts.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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January 10th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
297 Brandon F
Good for you!
January 10th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
294
Ferdinand Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:56 am
C’mon, that’s not fair. Everyone has it’s own motives to follow this forum. You wouldn’t say that gossip and hate are considered honourable behaviour, would you? But seems to be human nature, so as long as it’s practised in an internet forum and does nobody real harm, it’s OK. In some way we are not better than all those visitors to the naughty sites of the http://WWW.
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Hate has long been regarded as honourable in certain cultures, and gossip is the cornerstone of the markets.
Difficult to see how capitalism would survive without them…