{"id":496711,"date":"2025-10-13T17:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/496711\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:40:14","slug":"meghan-markles-pal-chrissy-teigen-defends-her-bestie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/496711\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s Pal Chrissy Teigen Defends Her Bestie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/tags\/meghan-markle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_meghan-markle\" data-tag=\"meghan-markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/entertainment\/articles\/1234859529\/meghan-markle-personality-clash-royal-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hottest topics<\/a> on the internet, but one of her A-list besties is here to tell everyone they have it all wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tChrissy Teigen gushed to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/chrissy-teigen-on-meghan-markle-friendship-if-their-kids-have-playdates-exclusive-11828695\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People <\/a>about the Duchess of Sussex, telling them, \u201cI really adore her. I think she is so incredibly strong.\u201d The 39-year-old supermodel is, of course, referring to the constant chatter about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/tags\/royal-family\/\" id=\"auto-tag_royal-family\" data-tag=\"royal-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">royal family<\/a> member, which she finds \u201cinsane.\u201d It\u2019s hard for Teigen to understand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/entertainment\/articles\/1234862931\/meghan-markle-unrelatable-tv-show-reaction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how \u201cpolarizing\u201d Meghan is <\/a>\u201cwhen she really is just such a kind, good person that wants the best for all her friends and the best for people around her, and the best for her own relationship and for her children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/parenting\/articles\/1234933617\/meghan-markle-harry-daughter-lilibet-hair-color-video\/\" class=\"lrv-u-flex@tablet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-sheknows-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760377213_413_meghan-markle-prince-harry.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Markle, Prince Harry\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\tRelated story<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tMeghan Markle &amp; Prince Harry\u2019s Video of Daughter Lilibet Shows What Her Hair Color Actually Is\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTeigen made an appearance on Season 2 of her pal\u2019s Netflix series, With Love, Meghan, and stands by her belief that the perception about the Duchess of Sussex is completely off-base. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAnd people come up with all these different things that she could be about or what she wants, \u2026 [but] it\u2019s not that complicated,\u201d Teigen noted. \u201cPeople are always going to read into what they want to read into, and they\u2019re going to hyperfocus into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/entertainment\/slideshow\/2340881\/meghan-markle-royal-conspiracy-theories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what they want to believe<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-sheknows-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TCDWILO_ZX030.jpg\" alt=\"WITH LOVE, MEGHAN, (aka WITH LOVE MEGHAN), from left: host Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (aka Meghan Markle), Chrissy Teigen, (Season 2, ep. 202, aired Aug. 26, 2025). photo: Jake Rosenberg \/ \u00a9Netflix \/ Courtesy Everett Collection\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"683\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tWITH LOVE, MEGHAN, (aka WITH LOVE MEGHAN), from left: host Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (aka Meghan Markle), Chrissy Teigen, (Season 2, ep. 202, aired Aug. 26, 2025). <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJake Rosenberg \/ \u00a9Netflix \/ Courtesy Everett Collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMeghan is apparently unbothered by the noise, but Teigen probably understands the heat of a controversy. In 2021, she faced criticism for bullying reality show personality Courtney Stodden via a tweet and private messages. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/entertainment\/articles\/2462426\/chrissy-teigen-new-apology-courtney-stodden-bullying-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teigen apologized<\/a> four years ago in a public statement, \u201cI hope you can heal now knowing how deeply sorry I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStodden spoke up in August about Meghan having Teigen guest star on her show. \u201cI posted about this, and I saw Chrissy Teigen was on my Instagram watching my Story, so I decided to reach out to Chrissy on DM and tell her that I\u2019m here if she needs to talk and I do not believe people should be bullying her and she shouldn\u2019t be listening to anyone who\u2019s bullying her,\u201d she said on Instagram on Aug. 15, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-15005815\/courtney-stodden-shock-claim-chrissy-teigen-cyberbullying-scandal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe women did not hash it out as Stodden claimed that Teigen \u201ccompletely ignored me.\u201d So, for now, Teigen still has a simmering feud with Stodden, and it\u2019s probably why she understands Meghan\u2019s experiences as a controversial public figure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>More on Meghan Markle: <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle is one of the hottest topics on the internet, but one of her A-list besties is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,26085,31438,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-496711","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-friendships","10":"tag-christie-brinkley","11":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","12":"tag-duke-of-sussex","13":"tag-harry","14":"tag-meghan","15":"tag-meghan-markle","16":"tag-prince-harry","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115368089520924551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496711","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=496711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}