Debbie McGee opens up about Paul Daniels’ Son
Debbie McGee has revealed she’s made up with her late husband Paul Daniels’ son after they had a furious public row over the magician’s estate.
The dancer, 62, was called a ‘false witch’ and told she was ‘only good’ for a job in McDonald’s by Paul Junior, now 61, in the months after his father’s death in 2016.
However five years on from the star’s passing from a brain tumour, Debbie has said she’s on talking terms with her stepson and isn’t ‘holding grudges’ about the past.
Paul Daniels, Debbie McGee are posing for a picture: ‘Everything is good now’: Debbie McGee has revealed she’s made up with her late husband Paul Daniel’s son after they had a furious row (pictured with her husband of 28 years in 2006)
Debbie McGee has revealed she’s made up with her late husband Paul Daniel’s son after they had a furious row.
Debbie said: ‘Everything is fine between us now. He was always a naughty boy! ‘Of course what he said was hurtful so soon after his dad died, but I don’t hold grudges.
‘He was obviously in extreme grief as well and took it out on me, but everything is good now.’
Debbie added that Paul Jr is now employed and ‘pulled himself together’, telling the publication she wishes her late husband could have seen how his son is now.
The former Strictly contestant also revealed she’s intending to scatter some of Paul’s ashes to mark the five-year anniversary of his death and Paul Jr will be invited along with Paul’s two other sons from his first marriage.
A man standing in front of a building: Strong words: Paul Jr, now 61, had called his stepmother a ‘false witch’ and told her she was ‘only good’ for a job in McDonald’s in the months after his dad’s death in 2016. Paul Jr, now 61, had called his stepmother a ‘false witch’ and told her she was ‘only good’ for a job in McDonald’s in the months after his dad’s death in 2016.
Elsewhere in her interview, Debbie admitted that she felt ‘completely lost’ after the death of her husband and slept with pillows on his side of the bed for six months.
She also revealed that she’s not been in a relationship since becoming a widow but think’s she could find love again now, if she ever met the right person.
Looking ahead to the five-year anniversary of losing her husband Debbie, who had breast cancer in 2018, said she still misses her love and hears his voice often.
However she tries to stay positive and remember the good times with her husband of 28 years while knowing she can be happy on her own and focus on the future.
Although now being on talking terms, Debbie and Paul Jr’s relationship was very strained after the magician’s death in 2016 as Debbie received his £1.5m estate.
After his father’s death, Paul Jr called his stepmother a ‘jumped-up dancer with no talent’ and said she was ‘only good’ for a job in McDonald’s.
Paul Daniels et al. posing for the camera: Forgiveness: Debbie said she’s made up with her stepson, saying ‘I don’t hold grudges’ during a new candid interview five years after Paul’s death. Debbie said she’s made up with her stepson, saying ‘I don’t hold grudges’ during a new candid interview five years after Paul’s death.
He also claimed that Debbie had promised to look after him financially when his father died before refusing him a penny.
Speaking on Loose Women in October 2016, Debbie claimed her husband’s son told her, ‘I’m leaving before I hit you’, after she explained he would not get a penny from his father’s will.
She added that she’d done her best by him, saying: ‘His father said he wouldn’t give him cash as he did like the pub and it would go on beer.’