Meghan Markle lodged a formal complaint to British broadcast regulators about former Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan after he claimed she exaggerated suicidal thoughts and racism in the royal family, according to a report on Friday. market.
“We can confirm receipt of a standards complaint made on behalf of the Duchess of Sussex,” said a spokesman for the regulatory group approved by the Ofcom government, according to the Daily Mail.
His complaint is one of at least 41,000 received by Ofcom, which is now due to begin an investigation into Morgan’s comments on the program on Tuesday. They unleashed a heated confrontation in the air that led him to leave the show.
Earlier this week, Markle reportedly complained to an ITV boss, the network behind the show, about Morgan’s comments, including that he “didn’t believe a word” she said about her treatment by the British royal family.
Markle claimed that he questioned Morgan’s attitude towards mental health in general, not his attack on her personally, due to the allegations she made about the royal family in an interview with Oprah Winfrey on March 7.
Morgan left the show on Tuesday after an airborne confrontation with a co-star who criticized him for “destroying” the Duchess of Cambridge, and claimed that his feud with her is personal – which prompted Morgan to leave the set.
Morgan later said he lost his job as a host on the show because he refused to apologize for his comments.