I don't remember her but watching the documentary what a wonderful intelligent vibrant woman she was.The media were cruel and targeted her(as they do with strong women)
What they did regarding her paternity and the timing is one of the cruelest acts I have ever seen.
Wonderful documentary.
Paula's mother Helene Thornton firmly denied Hughie Green was Paula's father when the allegations came out - after Michael's death - (there was a documentary on a few days before the Paula one. He was an egotistical, arrogant monster - he and Jess Yates hated each other)..so Paula felt confident about taking a DNA test, in order to sue the tabloids.
Helene then said later that Jess may have drugged her so Hughie could have his way with her (?!). At another point she stated didn't have a fling with Hughie Green till Paula was around eight years old (the mother wasn't a reliable source, shall we say). Eg,
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/hughie-rape-tragic-paulas-mum-2348279
Also, a tabloid reporter sending Paula her obituary (with the headline "Suicide Blonde") before she'd even died was unbelievably cruel!! Harassment at an unconscionable scale. I hope the red tops behave a bit better nowadays, but I doubt it.
Some people may say "who cares who her father is? she'll get over it" but it can cause a sense of feeling lost, rootless, questioning the memories you had growing up - it's a real identity crisis. Paula already being bereaved, under siege every day from the press and trying to hold it together (she may well have felt her career was ruined as well) was likely the last straw.
"Ladette" culture was a figment of the media's imagination, when it suited them to leer or laugh at women. It wasn't the experience of many 1990s females.
(I know there's a Peaches And Geldof Family thread, just responding to that comment).