Personal Life
He was married firstly to Jean (née Murray), with whom he had son Hugh and daughters Yvonne and Karen, later divorcing. Son Hugh died aged 23 of a drugs overdose in 1999 in his flat in Parkhead.
Hugh, known as "Shug", had battled drug addiction since his teenage years. Only recently released from prison, he had been trying to break his habit. In 2002, McCartney gave an interview with the Sunday Herald discussing his son's experiences in the justice system and how he believed "the way we deal with addicts sentenced his son to death". In 2003, McCartney stated in an interview that he still breaks down over the death of his only son.
McCartney's second and current wife is Ann Kevan Parkes, whom he married in 1988.
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