She once sat right next to Russian President
Vladimir Putin at a dinner where she observed that he said very little, never once touched his food nor drank what was served at the table. She surmised that he was very likely wary of being poisoned like Russian defector,
Alexander Litvinenko, who died of radiation poisoning in London in 2006 on orders from Putin. Hill also noticed that Putin's personal notes had extra large fonts and she was close enough to discern that he did not wear contact lenses.