Meghan Markle is reportedly “in a bad place” following the discharge of a damning Self-importance Truthful exposé final week.
The scathing piece, printed Jan. 17, delves into the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s struggling enterprise ventures, portray a tragic image of their makes an attempt at sustaining relevance after quitting royal life in 2020.
Quite a few former colleagues and associates spoke to the publication for the article, a lot of whom have slammed the “Suits” alum’s character.
Based on royal professional and commentator Kinsey Schofield, the Sussexes are licking their wounds after being left “bruised and upset” by the surprising claims.
“They are in a bad place right now,” Schofield advised Sky Information Australia. “It is my understanding that they are upset over it [and] I’m being told that things aren’t good for them right now.”
“Between Meghan’s show being postponed, which I’ve heard was Netflix’s idea, and just the idea that she has worked so hard to rebrand herself and here comes a very respected publication reiterating some of the nastiest claims about her.”
“So I think they are bruised and they’re sitting back trying to figure out how to process going forward,” Schofield added, although her claims haven’t been confirmed by the couple’s camp.
The Submit has reached out to Markle’s reps for remark.
Among the many myriad of claims made within the exposé, one specifically advised that the duo had been labeled native villains by neighbors.
One Montecito resident, who has by no means met the couple, referred to them because the prince and “the starlet.”
The neighbors of the quiet Santa Barbara space have blamed the couple for rising home costs and busy streets, saying Markle has tried taking the city’s understated class and advertising and marketing it through a mainstream label.
“It’s such a kind of hucksterism,” one resident advised the outlet. “It’s just finding every way she can to monetize something.”
“I still think they’re the most entitled, disingenuous people on the planet. They moved away from England to get away from the scrutiny of the press, and all they do is try and get in the press in the United States.”
One other surprising declare advised that Markle’s staff floated the concept of a “post-Harry divorce book” to a writer.
A supply advised the outlet, “Meghan’s team had a conversation with a publishing house to gauge interest” in a ebook that “might center on a post-Harry divorce.”
The supply didn’t reveal the date that Markle’s staff proposed the concept, or the title of the publishing home to which it was purportedly floated.
The publication clarifies that “no written or formal proposal” for the ebook ever eventuated, whereas one other insider disputes that the incident ever occurred in any respect.
Elsewhere, Markle was slammed for her alleged “bully” conduct by a number of former colleagues, who’ve chosen to stay nameless.
Some claimed they have been “undergoing long-term therapy after working with Meghan,” whereas one other described her as a “‘Mean Girls’ teenager.”
One one that labored with the “Suits” alum, 43, on media initiatives advised the publication that her time with the previous actress was “really, really, really awful” and “very painful.”
“She’s constantly playing checkers — I’m not even going to say chess — but she’s just very aware of where everybody is on her board,” the supply claimed. “And when you are not in, you are to be thrown to the wolves at any given moment.”
The insider claimed that whereas the mother of two by no means raised her voice at staff, she was engaged in additional tacit types of bullying.
“It’s talking behind your back,” the individual defined. “It’s gnawing at your sense of self.”
“You can be yelled at even if somebody doesn’t raise their voice. [It’s] funny that people don’t differentiate between the energy of being yelled at and literally somebody screaming at you,” they added.
