Actress Justine Bateman has blasted Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for performing like “victims” since quitting royal life in 2020 and transferring to the US.
The “Family Ties” and “Desperate Housewives” alum, 59, didn’t mince phrases as she slammed the Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix present, “With Love, Meghan,” saying it acquired disappointing viewership as a result of folks don’t wish to “watch someone playact at something they didn’t earn.”
In a weblog submit titled “The Problem With Meghan Markle: It’s Not What She’s Doing, It’s the Victim Olympics Road She Took to Get There,” Bateman hit out on the “Suits” alum, 43, following the discharge of her a number of enterprise ventures — which, along with her Netflix present, embody her way of life model As Ever and her new podcast “Confessions of a Female Founder.”
Bateman — who beforehand referred to as the Sussexes “ambulance chasers” and “disaster tourists” after their go to to an evacuation middle following the LA wildfires in January, stated the general public is solely uninterested in them and their “victim Olympics.”
“The problem with Meghan Markle (and her husband, Harry) is that every opportunity they have explored or exploited over the past few years has been due to their very aggressive Victim Olympics campaign,” Bateman wrote in her Race Monitor Substack on Saturday.
“The difference between doing that two years ago and doing it now is immense. It’s 2025, and no one wants to see victims anymore.”
“No one wants to watch someone playact at something they didn’t earn,” she stated, including that she has even created the couple’s personal gold medal.
The sister of Hollywood star Jason Bateman added that whereas she doesn’t assume “anyone wishes [Markle] ill” and that she has the correct to launch a Netflix present or “start a podcast or two,” folks even have the correct to not “go along with another’s ‘narrative’ anymore.”
In January, Justine slammed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for what she believed to be an insensitive “photo op” after they visited an evacuation middle for the victims of the Eaton fireplace in Pasadena.
“Meghan Markle and Harry are no better than ambulance chasers,” she wrote on the time. “What a repulsive ‘photo op’ they achieved.”
“They are ‘touring the damage’?” she requested in her repost of reports footage displaying the couple in Pasadena, Calif., a stone’s throw from Altadena, one of many hardest hit communities by the fires. “Are they politicians now? They don’t live here; they are tourists. Disaster Tourists.”
