Piers Morgan calls Meghan ‘a delusional duchess who wants to make millions’
‘What happened to me is happening all over Britain and America – I can take it, but there are many people who don’t have our platform who are being wiped out, lives destroyed, careers ended for ridiculous things’
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Your support makes all the difference.Piers Morgan predictably did not hold back in his interview with Tucker Carlson.
The interview marked Morgan’s first televised appearance since leaving Good Morning Britain, following a row over comments he made about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“Is she deliberately lying? Is she completely delusional? I don't know, but frankly, I don't care,” Morgan said of Meghan Markle’s claims that she had experienced racism from the Royal Family and was denied help when she told palace officials she was suicidal.
“The idea that the Royal Family, and the Queen in particular, are now being depicted as a racist entity, a racist Queen, presiding over a racist monarchy, when she's the head of the commonwealth, I'm sorry, I find it completely disgusting,” he continued.
“I've met the Royals many times. I don't believe they're racists at all. In fact the only member of the Royal Family who has had to publicly apologise for being racist is Prince Harry.”
Morgan told Carlson, “We simply don’t know, and we don’t even know who supposed to have said this, but then Harry was asked the same question, and Harry didn’t say it was several conversations when Meghan was pregnant. He said it was a conversation that happened way before at the start of their relationship, years before Meghan said it happened.
“So now we have a massive inconsistency. One conversation, not two. Maybe a year and a half, two years before Meghan said it happened. She didn’t even hear it. We don’t know the context. We don’t know what was said.”
“It's not really about Meghan Markle,” Morgan continued during the interview, which aired on Fox Nation, Fox’s streaming platform, on Monday (5 April). “She's a delusional duchess who wants to make millions off the royals while trashing family – it's really about free speech.
“What happened to me is happening all over Britain and America – I can take it, but there are many people who don't have our platform who are being wiped out, lives destroyed, careers ended for ridiculous things.”
Morgan stormed off GMB’s set last month after he was criticised by a colleague for questioning the validity of some of the claims made by the couple in their talk with Ms Winfrey.
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The former Daily Mirror editor dismissed remarks by the Duchess of Sussex where she described experiencing suicidal thoughts amid press intrusion into her personal life.
His comments generated nearly 60,000 complaints to the British television regulator, Ofcom.
In a tweet on Monday morning, Morgan said it was “time America got the actual truth” on the comments he made about the royal couple.
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