Meghan Markle's sister Samantha blasts her for using depression as 'an excuse to treat people like dishrags'
Meghan Markle and Harry revealed a lot of details about their personal life and their battle with the UK Royal family in their explosive interview with queen of talk shows, Oprah Winfrey on March 8. Needless to say, there were people like Piers Morgan who felt their words were an outright insult and 'self-serving'. Among Meghan's many critics is also her half-sister, Samantha Markle, who is known to have an opinion about everything her famous sibling does and says. Samantha has now slammed her after the interview and has made it known she shares no sympathy for a troubled Meghan.
During the interview with Oprah, Meghan revealed that Samantha 'doesn't know' her, claiming she was raised as "an only child' - but her half-sister has now insisted that couldn't be further from the truth. "I don't know how she can say I don't know her and she was an only child. We've got photographs over a lifespan of us together. So how can she not know me?" she told Inside Edition while sharing images of the two women together at different stages throughout their lives, the most recent of which was in 2008, just 13 years ago. When asked about Meghan's revelation that she struggled with suicidal thoughts, Samantha said that she had little sympathy for her and actually accused Meghan of using her mental health as an "an excuse" for treating people "like dishrags." "Depression is not an excuse for treating people like dishrags and disposing of them," she countered.
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When Oprah asked Meghan about Samantha's book, 'The Diary of Princess Pushy's Sister', the Duchess answered: "I don’t feel comfortable talking about people that I really don’t know. She further said that she had grown up "an only child which everyone who grew up around me knows, and I wished I had siblings.” She also claimed she hadn't seen her half-sister in nearly two decades. However, Samantha presented snaps that show them together throughout the years, including one of them at her college graduation in 2008. The Duchess also alleged that Samantha only changed her surname back to Markle after Meghan started dating Harry, implying that her half-sister was trying to obtain a public interest in her name. "She changed her last name back to Markle... only when I started dating Harry. So I think that says enough," she said.
But Samantha asserted that this claim was completely wrong and shared further evidence to refute it. "I was a Markle before she was," she said. "I thought that was kind of weird that she would say I only changed my name back when she met Harry. Markle has always been my name." Samantha then showed Inside Edition her petition to change her name that was dated back to December 1997 and her college diploma, which says, Samantha M. Markle.
Meghan and Samantha have been at loggerheads since before her marriage to Harry in May 2018, with Samantha losing no opportunity to badmouth her sister in the press and social media. Samantha was not invited to the royal wedding and later admitted she was “hurt at not being included” in the celebrations.