Heather Mills says she’s being unfairly persecuted as per divorce from Paul McCartney moves ahead, but that she still loves her estranged husband.

“I’ll always love Paul,” Mills, 39, said in a BBC TV interview that aired in the U.K. Thursday night, the Associated Press reports. “He’s the father of my child, and I’ll always have strong feelings for him.”

As for the alleged smear campaign against her, Mills says:

There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down.

She also says she does not deserve such treatment. She says,

I’m not a publicity seeker ... I haven’t gone ’round promoting things to finance my own pockets.

But there are huge powers, I don’t have that powerful system that [Paul] has. There are huge powers that create these things for reasons of their own.

Mills and McCartney, 64, separated last May after four years of marriage and began divorce proceedings in July. The couple has a three year old daughter, Beatrice.

Source: PEOPLE