Heather Mills, the former wife of Sir Paul McCartney and a Paralympic skier, has been left on crutches after breaking her prosthetic leg brace in a skiing accident in Austria. The 57-year-old vegan activist was on a work trip in the Hinterglemm region when the incident occurred on the final run of her holiday.
Mills shared a photo on Instagram showing herself on crutches in a bright orange ski suit, with her prosthetic leg removed. She wrote: 'I hope everyone's New Year has got off to a great start. I was lucky to just break my prosthetic leg brace on the last ski run on the last day, bit swollen, but nothing broken.' A spokesman confirmed that the brace's screws released during a high-speed run, causing a crash.
The mother-of-one, who lost her left leg below the knee after being struck by a police motorcycle in London in 1993, competed for the British Disabled Ski Team from 2010 to 2013, winning multiple World Cup medals. She spent Christmas with her partner, film producer and actor Mike Dickman, 39, whom she met on a train in 2019.
Despite the injury, Mills expressed gratitude that it happened on the last day of her trip. She will need to visit a prosthetic clinic to have the brace fixed, a process expected to take a few hours. The spokesman added: 'Heather was thankful it was the last run of the day on the last day.'
