Meghan Markle’s estranged half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr., has slammed the “malarkey stories” she shared about her childhood in her new Netflix sequence, “With Love, Meghan.”
The Duchess of Sussex’s extremely anticipated cooking sequence premiered on the platform Tuesday, which noticed her share her ideas and tips for internet hosting at residence.
The “Suits” alum, 43, referred to as herself a “latchkey kid” and opened up about her modest childhood to attach with viewers, claiming she “grew up with a lot of fast food and TV tray dinners.”
“It feels like such a different time, but that was so normal with the microwavable kids meals,” Meghan says within the sequence.
The previous working royal added that she typically reached for meals from Pollo Loco, Taco Bell and Jack In The Field — a declare she beforehand made in 2021, when she revealed that she “grew up on the $4.99 salad bar at Sizzler.”
Nonetheless, the revelation didn’t sit proper together with her estranged half-brother, who took goal at Meghan’s try at relatability.
“That’s just another one of the malarkey stories she sold to the royal family for sympathy,” Thomas Jr. advised TalkTV. “We weren’t poor. She didn’t have to rub two nickels together at Sizzler’s salad bar.”
“The entire world knows how she treated her family, especially her father, who gave her everything. That’s why nobody’s buying it,” added Thomas Jr., who hasn’t spoken to the duchess in over a decade.
Thomas Jr. admitted that whereas he sat down to look at his estranged half-sister’s Netflix present, he quickly “realized there’s something better I could be doing with my time.”
“Everybody’s going to watch the first episode, and it’ll be the worst critically acclaimed episode of all time,” he mentioned. “Then, five or six minutes into the second, they’ll probably commit themselves to a psychiatric ward.”
Elsewhere, the 58-year-old mentioned watching the Netflix sequence marked “the first time I felt sorry and embarrassed for her.”
Nonetheless, he’s not letting their father, Thomas Markle Sr., watch the present on account of his declining well being.
“I didn’t have enough heart medication for him to watch it,” he mentioned. “I didn’t want him to kick the bucket, so I’d have to go refill the prescription before I let him watch it.”
In her Netflix sequence, Meghan repeatedly shares her affinity for cooking and claims it’s her love language to feed her family and friends.
Nonetheless, Thomas Jr. claimed that Meghan “didn’t cook anything for anybody ever growing up.”
“There was always that little look,” he mentioned. “The Meghan Markle death stare, like her viper jaw pitches up, and she’s about to strike.”
The Submit has reached out to the Duchess of Sussex’s reps for remark.
Directed by Michael Steed, “With Love, Meghan” boasts eight episodes, every 33 minutes lengthy. Meghan and Prince Harry, 40, produced the sequence by way of their Archewell Productions firm.
