“I’m sorry, I don’t believe a word she says, Meghan Markle,” Mr. Morgan said on Monday. “I wouldn’t believe her if she read me a weather report. The fact that she has fired up this onslaught against our royal family, I think, is contemptible.”
Before his abrupt departure from the show on Tuesday, Mr. Morgan stood by his previous comments questioning Meghan’s credibility.
“I still have serious concerns about the veracity of a lot of what she said,” Mr. Morgan said.
But on the subject of mental illness and suicide, the television host trod much more gingerly than he did on Monday.
“If somebody is feeling that way, they should get the treatment and the help that they need every time, and if they belong to an institution like the royal family and they go and seek that help, they should absolutely be given it,” Mr. Morgan said.
Mr. Morgan said he wasn’t disputing whether Meghan had thoughts of taking her own life.
“It’s not for me to question whether she felt suicidal,” he said. “I wasn’t in her mind, and that’s for her to say. My real concern was a disbelief, frankly, and I’m prepared to be proven wrong on this, and if I’m wrong it is a scandal, that she went to a senior member of the royal household, told them she was suicidal and was told she could not have any help because it would be a bad look for the family.”
Mr. Morgan said there should be repercussions if Meghan’s requests for help were dismissed.
“If that is true, A, that person, if they’re still there, they should be fired,” he said, “and, B, the royal family have serious questions to be answered about how they handled it.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/world/europe/piers-morgan-meghan-good-morning-britain.html
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