{"id":477956,"date":"2025-10-06T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477956\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:00:11","slug":"meghan-markle-playing-the-victim-with-new-confession-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477956\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle &#8216;playing the victim&#8217; with new confession &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking exclusively to The Express US, Levine explained, &#8220;There\u2019s a fine line between authenticity and indulgent self-pity \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> has turned crossing it into a weekly ritual.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her podcast is on hold, her Netflix ratings are lagging, her lifestyle brand was greeted with yawns, yet she continues to dominate the media cycle\u2026 not through vision, but through grievance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The expert continued, &#8220;In a recent Bloomberg interview, Markle complained \u2014 again \u2014 about her royal wardrobe requirements (pantyhose, of all things) and her critics, all while stirring a one-pot pasta recipe lifted straight from Martha Stewart\u2019s playbook. This isn\u2019t the language of leadership. It\u2019s the vocabulary of a perpetual victim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON&#8217;T MISS&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/186167\/meghan-markle-paris-fashion-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Meghan Markle&#8217;s unexpected move &#8216;changes everything&#8217; as royal family feud rages on<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/186107\/meghan-markle-anna-wintour-paris-feud?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle makes amends with Vogue editor Anna Wintour at Paris Fashion Week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/news\/royals\/186091\/prince-harry-stripped-fun-title-royal-steps-replace-him?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry stripped of &#8216;fun&#8217; title as royal steps in to replace him<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Levine urged Meghan to focus on showing &#8220;a range of emotions, including light and shadow, vulnerability, and strength.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For now, he said her &#8220;relentless focus on slights and discomforts flattens her public persona into one long, whiny note. It\u2019s tiresome \u2014 and worse, strategically foolish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don\u2019t build a global lifestyle brand by sounding like a broken record of complaints.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The expert concluded, &#8220;Until Meghan learns to shift from grievance to gravitas, her media presence will remain what it\u2019s become: less royal icon, more reality show confessional. And the public? They\u2019re tuning out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Levine is a leading US media expert and best-selling author who spoke to The Express US on behalf of <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/boundlessmediausa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boundless Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking exclusively to The Express US, Levine explained, &#8220;There\u2019s a fine line between authenticity and indulgent self-pity \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,63060,7721,7719,45514,7718,7720,1281,451,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-477956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-celebrity-news-section","10":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","11":"tag-duke-of-sussex","12":"tag-entertainment-section","13":"tag-harry","14":"tag-meghan","15":"tag-meghan-markle","16":"tag-netflix","17":"tag-prince-harry","18":"tag-royal-families","19":"tag-royal-family","20":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115326879363438698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477956","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=477956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}