A Deep Dive into Piers Morgan and Meghan Markle Relationship
On Tuesday morning, Morgan left in the middle of the show after his co-host told him Markle had been “entitled to cut you off if she wants to.”
“I understand that you don’t like Meghan Markle — you’ve made that so clear a number of times on this program,” the show’s weather presenter, Alex Beresford, said. “I understand that you’ve got a personal relationship with Meghan Markle or had one, and she cut you off. She’s entitled to cut you off if she wants to. Has she said anything about you since she cut you off? I don’t think she has, but yet you continue to trash her.”
Beresford said Morgan’s behavior is “pathetic” and “diabolical,” particularly in relation to Markle.
Following Prince Harry and Markle’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, Morgan cast doubt on the legitimacy of Markle’s comments during his “Good Morning Britain” show.
Markle told Winfrey that she had suicidal thoughts after joining the royal family and experiencing a barrage of disproportionately negative press from UK tabloids and newspapers.
While commenting on a clip of the Winfrey interview where Markle said she had approached senior members of the royal institution for help but was denied, Morgan said: “Who did you go to? What did they say to you? I’m sorry, I don’t believe a word she said, Meghan Markle. I wouldn’t believe it if she read me a weather report.”
Morgan took Markle’s ‘ghosting’ of him personally, though Markle has since revealed that she was ‘silenced’ by the royal family
According to Morgan’s version of events, he and Markle struck up a friendship after they started following each other on Twitter (Morgan had followed several actors from “Suits” and Markle followed him back). Markle told him in 2015 that she was a “big fan” of his, and would send him screeners of “Suits” episodes.
“I thought we were having a good sort of friendship building,” Morgan said during the 2018 “Late Late Show” appearance.
Morgan claims Markle asked him he wanted to meet up when she was going to be in the UK for another event. He invited her to his local pub, where together they had a few drinks before she was heading to a party.
“We got on brilliantly, and then I put her in a cab,” Morgan said. “And it turned out to be a cab that took her to a party where she met Prince Harry. And then the next night they had a solo dinner together, and that was the last I ever heard from Meghan Markle.”
“She ghosted me, Ryan!” when the host Ryan Tubridy asked what happened. “Meghan Markle ghosted me.”
“I really liked her, this is why it hurts,” Morgan said while laughing. “She’s just a slight social climber, I’m afraid.”
Morgan went on to speculate that Prince Harry might have told Markle to stop talking to him. He also said a different actor on “Suits” had also “ghosted” him at the same time as Markle, and that they seem to have been instructed not to speak to him.
During Markle’s Sunday interview with Winfrey, she said that she was “given a very clear directive from the moment the world knew Harry and I were dating to always say, ‘No comment'” when it came to press stories. Her own family members and friends were also told to do the same.
Morgan has been critical of Markle’s actions over the past four years, frequently comparing his own experience with her to her relationship with people like her father.
As outlined in this analysis from Insider’s royals reporter Mikhaila Friel, Markle was “unfairly criticized for doing the same things her sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, is praised for.”
In their Sunday interview with Winfrey, both Prince Harry and Markle described the intense pressure and mental-health strain that was caused by the UK’s negative press coverage of their lives and the lack of support they felt from within the palace institution.
