According to a new interview with The Sunday Times, Collins asked McCartney to sign a Beatles book and was horrified when the musician turned to his then-wife, Heather Mills, with a snarky response.
"I met him when I was working at the Buckingham Palace party back in 2002," recalled the singer. "McCartney came up with Heather Mills and I had a first edition of The Beatles
by Hunter Davies and I said, 'Hey Paul, do you mind signing this for
me?' And he said, 'Oh Heather, our little Phil's a bit of a Beatles
fan.' And I thought, 'You f**k, you f**k.' Never forgot it."
"McCartney
was one of my heroes," added Collins, who has just announced tour plans
for next June. "But he has this thing when he's talking to you, where
he makes you feel [like], 'I know this must be hard for you, because I'm
a Beatle. I'm Paul McCartney and it must be very hard for you to
actually be holding a conversation with me.'"
The "You Can't Hurry Love" singer opened up about the incident while promoting his new autobiography, Not Dead Yet.
The title is a nod to his almost-fatal battle with booze, which he
details in the book, noting that it took him "until the age of 55 to
become an alcoholic."
At one
point, Collins says he was drinking vodka from the bottle for breakfast,
and he was once airlifted from Turks and Caicos to New York after
downing too much alcohol while on vacation.
"I nearly died," he shared in the Times interview. "My organs were kind of f**ked. It was spirits, corrosive stuff."
The
65-year-old GRAMMY winner now drinks the occasional glass of wine, but
avoids spirits in his bid to be a good dad to his two youngest sons,
15-year-old Nicholas and 11-year-old Matthew, from his third marriage to
Orianne Cevey.
The
couple divorced in 2008 amid a $46.76 million settlement, but have since
reconciled and now live in a $33 million Miami mansion that was once
owned by Jennifer Lopez.
culled ET
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