{"id":562803,"date":"2025-11-11T04:15:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/562803\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T04:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:15:27","slug":"how-meghan-markles-suits-co-star-came-to-her-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/562803\/","title":{"rendered":"How Meghan Markle\u2019s \u2018Suits\u2019 Co-Star Came to Her Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/clock-regular.b2f2888.svg\" alt=\"Estimated read time\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>2 min read<\/p>\n<ul data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li data-node-id=\"0.0\">Before she was the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle was an actor on the USA Network series Suits until 2018. <\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"0.1\">According to a Nov. 5 report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tv\/15448526\/meghan-markle-return-acting-close-personal-friends-lily-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tv\/15448526\/meghan-markle-return-acting-close-personal-friends-lily-collins\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"The Sun\" data-node-id=\"0.1.1.0\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sun<\/a>, Meghan is making her big return to acting with an upcoming project, Close Personal Friends.<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"0.2\">Meghan\u2019s on-screen dad from Suits, Wendell Pierce, has since come to her defense after journalist,  royal commentator, and biographer Angela Levin claimed that the Duchess was \u201cdifficult, demanding, and rude\u201d on set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"body-dropcap css-x7ayhf emevuu60\">The Duchess of Sussex is reportedly making her way back to our screens with a new acting project\u2014and apparently, not everyone is here for it. Soon after the news about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/celebs\/a69234625\/prince-harry-body-language-meghan-markle-dodgers-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/celebs\/a69234625\/prince-harry-body-language-meghan-markle-dodgers-video\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Meghan Markle\" data-node-id=\"2.1\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a>\u2019s rumored new movie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/celebs\/a69273245\/meghan-markle-close-personal-friends-movie-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/celebs\/a69273245\/meghan-markle-close-personal-friends-movie-details\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Close Personal Friends\" data-node-id=\"2.3.0.0\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">Close Personal Friends<\/a>, broke, royal commenter Angela Levin took to Twitter to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/angelalevin1\/status\/1986416585444036839\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/x.com\/angelalevin1\/status\/1986416585444036839\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"write\" data-node-id=\"2.5\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\">write<\/a>, \u201cMeghan won\u2019t love being told what to do by any producer. Suits actors found her \u2018difficult, demanding and rude\u2019 and she was only a starter then.\u201d Okay!<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Luckily, one of Meghan\u2019s former Suits co-stars is here to set the record straight. In response to Angela\u2019s claims about Meghan\u2019s alleged on-set behavior, actor Wendell Pierce (who played her on-screen dad, Robert Zane) replied, \u201cYou have no idea what you are talking about @angelalevin1. You are a gossip monger looking to profit off of smearing a woman you know nothing about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">And he wasn\u2019t done there! \u201cMeghan was a kind, giving, and talented artist who I enjoyed working with for years,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou, Angela, are a shameless hack. I\u2019m more mad at myself for allowing you to get under my skin.\u201d <br data-node-id=\"6.1\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Wendell, who also stars on shows like Jack Ryan and Elsbeth, concluded his message with, \u201cI\u2019ll focus this anger on the friendship that Meghan and I have and the fond memories I have from working on SUITS. Her grace is something you know nothing about.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">As a reminder: Before she joined the Royal family alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/celebs\/a69261700\/will-prince-harry-lose-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/celebs\/a69261700\/will-prince-harry-lose-title\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Prince Harry\" data-node-id=\"10.1\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>, the Duchess starred as Rachel Zane on the fan-favorite legal drama from 2011 to 2018. <\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"suits season 7\" title=\"Suits - Season 7\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2001\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/shame-episode-709-pictured-wendell-pierce-as-robert-zane-news-photo-1762810912.pjpeg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/>USA Network\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Wendell Pierce as Robert Zane and Meghan Markle as Rachel Zane on Suits.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"13\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tv\/15448526\/meghan-markle-return-acting-close-personal-friends-lily-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tv\/15448526\/meghan-markle-return-acting-close-personal-friends-lily-collins\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"The Sun\" data-node-id=\"13.1\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sun<\/a>, Meghan is set to appear in her new movie, Close Personal Friends, alongside Lily Collins, Brie Larson, Henry Golding, and Jack Quaid.<br data-node-id=\"13.5\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"14\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Meghan has yet to weigh in on the situation, but for what it\u2019s worth, she\u2019s probably busy on the set!<\/p>\n<p>More on Meghan and Harry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min read Before she was the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle was an actor on the USA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1380,179274,1331,1381,5105,7710,519,448,179273],"class_list":{"0":"post-562803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-563a5580-6678-457f-bf42-d6adaa240610","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-locale-us","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-shorttitle-meghans-tv-dad-has-come-to-her-defense"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115529130047163245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562803","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=562803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}