{"id":157288,"date":"2025-06-04T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157288\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:53:09","slug":"meghan-markle-humiliated-and-furious-over-hollywood-stars-brutal-hit-job-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157288\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle ‘humiliated and furious’ over Hollywood star’s brutal ‘hit job’ | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle<\/a> was left “humiliated and furious,” following Hollywood<\/a> star Brooke Shields’ awkward interruption of her childhood anecdote when they appeared on the same panel together in March 2024<\/a>. The American actress recently recounted she wasn’t a fan of Meghan’s “serious” demeanour as she spoke about her childhood on stage. As Meghan recalled being spurred into activism as a child whens he was just 11, Brooke interjected with her own story about “playing a prostitute” at the same age.<\/p>\n

While the interaction went down well with the crowd at the time, a source has claimed Meghan was far from amused. Speaking to journalist Rob Shuter for his Substack<\/a> they intimated the Duchess took it as “a hit job” towards her. “She was visibly rattled,” they said. “It wasn\u2019t a joke to her; that anecdote (from her childhood) is sacred. This was a hit job, plain and simple,” they said. “And Meghan doesn\u2019t forget, or forgive, being laughed at.\u201d<\/p>\n

Express.co.uk<\/a> has contacted representatives for Meghan Markle<\/a> for comment.<\/p>\n

Brooke recently opened up about the incident, which happened when both women were on the SXSW Keynote: Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen panel in March 2024 in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n

Speaking on India Hicks’ podcast the former child star admitted she wasn’t a fan of Meghan’s “serious” demeanour as she spoke about her childhood on stage.<\/p>\n

Brooke recalled, “Katie (Couric) asks the first question to Meghan and talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women, etc, etc. (Meghan) starts telling a story about how when she was 11. And she keeps saying, well, ‘when I was 11, I saw this commercial and they were talking about washing dishes and only soap for washing dishes was for women.'”<\/p>\n

“And she said, ‘I didn’t think only women wash dishes. It wasn’t fair. So I wrote to the company. And when I was 11, I wrote my first letter, and when I was 11…’ and she kept saying she was 11! She wrote to the company, they changed the text, they changed the commercial.”<\/p>\n

The Blue Lagoon star said she then interrupted Meghan. “So I go, ‘Excuse me, I’m so sorry. I’ve got to interrupt you there for one minute.’ I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious.<\/p>\n

“I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we’re different. I said, ‘Well, when I was 11, I was playing a prostitute. The place went insane. And then luckily, it was more relaxed after that.” She was referring to her controversial role in the 1978 movie, Pretty Baby.<\/p>\n

“I was like, oh, I hope she doesn’t think I’m rude. I’m not being rude. It was just too precious. And I was like, they’re not going to want to sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious.”<\/p>\n

Brooke added, “Afterwards, she [Meghan] was kind of like, ‘oh, okay’. And I was like, ‘let’s just have some fun with it.’ I don’t know if you’ll have to cut this out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle was left “humiliated and furious,” following Hollywood star Brooke Shields’ awkward interruption of her childhood anecdote…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[5075,4080,77,498,1281,66691,66692,1487,1488,42565,66694,10858,66693,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-157288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-brooke-shields","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hollywood","12":"tag-meghan-markle","13":"tag-meghan-markle-and-brooke-shields","14":"tag-meghan-markle-feud","15":"tag-meghan-markle-latest","16":"tag-meghan-markle-news","17":"tag-meghan-markle-updates","18":"tag-royal-latest","19":"tag-royal-news","20":"tag-royal-updates","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114624725228739828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}