Piers Morgan, in his first interview since leaving ITV’s Good morning Great Britain, reiterated its rejection of the allegations that Meghan Markle made at her meeting with Oprah Winfrey last month.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson for his Fox Nation show Tucker Carlson Today, Morgan said he still doesn’t “believe what they’re saying and, in particular, I don’t believe what Meghan Markle said. 17 different claims of the two have now been proven to be completely false, or extremely exaggerated or unlikely. “
“I did not believe Meghan Markle, a great furor broke out during the day, I was outraged, I could not have an opinion that I did not believe what she was saying, although it was clear to me in fact while I was watching the interview , there were a number of things that just couldn’t be true. “
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There was a huge backlash against Morgan’s comments following the broadcast of Winfrey’s interview last month, in which Markle said she had suicidal thoughts during her pregnancy, but was unable to get help from the Royal staff.
“It is not for me to say if she felt suicidal, this is just for her to know,” Morgan told Carlson, according to Fox News.
Morgan said: “What I was questioning is that she claimed to have sought out two members of the royal household – a senior advisor and also human resources. And she told the two that she was feeling suicidal and needed help and the two rejected it and said that she couldn’t get help because it would be bad for the royal family’s brand. I just find it impossible to believe that you would have two people in the palace who would be so heartless with a woman telling them that she was suicidal. “
Excerpts from the interview were also shown on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight. The network promoted the interview as a highlight of its Fox Nation subscription streaming service, with Carlson having launched his new show last month.
Carlson pointed to Morgan’s departure from Good morning Great Britain, after the furor over his comments, as another example of a culture of cancellation. He told viewers that Morgan “took positions that really cost him.”
After Winfrey’s interview with Markle and Prince Harry, Morgan made a speech about Good morning Great Britain, saying to viewers, “I don’t believe a word of what she says, Meghan Markle. I wouldn’t believe it if she read me a weather report. This has generated more than 57,000 complaints to the UK regulator.
Subsequently, Morgan said he was informed by the ITV television director that he would either have to apologize or leave the program.
Morgan left the show during a conversation with Alex Beresford, a guest presenter. Beresford later said: “I hoped that we could reach a point of understanding. It is sad that we were not able to get there, but challenging your opinion was not an outrage. On this occasion, we have to agree to disagree. I didn’t want him to give up, but I wanted him to hear. “
In the interview with Carlson, Morgan said that while watching the interview, he thought he was witnessing “the most extraordinarily underhanded defamation work in the royal family, the queen, the monarchy and, frankly, in Britain, my country.”
“And I wasn’t going to accept it,” said Morgan. “And then I went on the air on Monday morning and returned it … and said clearly that I didn’t believe anything of what Meghan Markle was saying.
“And here we are a month later, Tucker, and frankly I had a lot of time to think about it, and I had a lot of time to analyze all the analyzes of what she was saying and what Prince Harry was saying, and I still don’t believe in what they were saying. ”
Morgan noted that “there is Prince Harry’s position in all of this. He is linked to many of Britain’s largest mental health charities. He makes no secret of his desire for everyone who feels depressed or anxious or has thoughts of suicide to get immediate help, and yet here was his wife who says she is constantly feeling suicidal, and Prince Harry never sought his help. And I find that very hard to believe frankly. “
Morgan also contested Markle’s claim that, before the birth of her son, someone in the royal family expressed concern “how dark his skin might be when he is born”.
Morgan said to Carlson, “We just don’t know, and we don’t even know who should have said that, but then Harry asked the same question, and Harry didn’t say there were a lot of conversations when Meghan was pregnant. He said it was a conversation that happened long before, at the beginning of their relationship, years before Meghan said it had happened.
“So, now we have a huge inconsistency. One conversation, not two. Maybe a year and a half, two years before Meghan said it happened. She didn’t even hear it. We don’t know the context. We don’t know what was said. “
He said that “the idea that the royal family and the queen in particular are now being portrayed as a racist entity, a racist queen presiding over a racist monarchy when she is the head of the community, I’m sorry, I find that completely disgusting. “
But Winfrey said that Prince Harry made it clear to her that the comment was not made by the queen or her husband, Prince Philip. Harry, however, did not reveal who said that.
Morgan also accused Beresford of carrying out a “premeditated attack” against him, but acknowledged that he should not have abandoned the program.
“I went out for a few minutes, then I realized that this is stupid,” said Morgan. “I shouldn’t have left. You know, you should always be able to have a debate. “
He added: “I was angry at the time when he was trying to personalize this, to make me have some personal revenge on Meghan Markle, which I don’t have. And I came back. And then we had a very lively and enlightening debate, like a half hour debate about it. “
Carlson and Morgan criticized Winfrey for the way she conducted the interview.
Morgan said that “it wasn’t really an interview. It was allowing two friends the platform to pulverize Britain, the monarchy, the royal family, the Queen, Prince William’s wife. You choose, they knocked them over. And that’s fine. That is their decision. It’s their life, they can do whatever they want. But to do that when you still call yourself Duke and Duchess of Sussex, I’m sorry, this is total hypocrisy.
In a clip that was also aired on Carlson’s Fox News program, Morgan said “you would think people would be thanking me” for the increase in ratings for Good morning, Great Britain.
“Instead, I was basically cornered in a position where I was told, either you have to apologize for not believing Meghan Markle’s version of events here or your position is untenable and you have to leave,” he said.
Morgan also talked about Sharon Osbourne’s departure from The conversation, saying that she “was taken off the air in a very deliberate way and all because she dared to tweet that I was entitled to my opinion. And then, because she said that on Twitter, she was attacked on her own show by her co-host, who said that she was actually supporting someone who said racist things. ”
Osbourne left the show at the end of last month, with CBS issuing a statement saying that “they concluded that Sharon’s behavior towards his co-hosts during the March 10 episode did not align with our values for a work environment. respectful”.
Today’s full interview with Piers Morgan by Tucker Carlson arrives at 4 pm Eastern Time in @foxnation pic.twitter.com/eohtmBEI4u
– Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 5, 2021
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