With distorting coverage of Paula Yates appearing ahead of a new documentary, I've written about the ways media misrepresents & cartoonifies this brilliant woman. And I've published Dear Paula, originally commissioned by the Globe theatre to reclaim her story https://www.catherinemayer.co.uk/post/everything-you-know-is-wrong-how-the-media-misrepresented-paula-yates-and-continues-to-do-so
Everything You Know Is Wrong: How the media misrepresented Paula Yates and continues to do so
The emails arrive every year without fail, sometimes in a flurry, and often pegged to the anniversary of our friend's death. A new project is in the works that will finally show the real Paula Yates in all her glory. Typically the letter-writers flatter and cajole—we alone can ensure Paula's story is properly told. That happens to be, in large part, true. Josephine Fairley was Paula's best friend and I was lucky enough to become close to both of them. Sometimes these pitches attempt to guilt-tri
