The feud between Meghan Markle and her sister Samantha may be about to blow wide open.
"I'm just trying to decide if I'm comfortable even talking about that."
These days, there doesn't seem to be much love lost between Meghan Markle,
Duchess of Sussex, and her half-sister Samantha Markle.
Samantha first started talking to the press about Meghan when Prince Harry and Meghan's relationship
was made public in 2017. At the time, Samantha told Us Weekly about how she still loved Meghan
and wanted to have a "heart to heart" with her after not having spoken much for years.
Things seemed to sour between the two as the wedding drew closer in 2018,
and Samantha admitted to setting up their father Thomas Markle to be photographed
by paparazzi before the nuptials, which proved to be a big distraction from Meghan's big day.
Not disguising her true feelings, Samantha titled her 2021 tell-all memoir "The Diary of
Princess Pushy's Sister." In it, she wrote that Meghan was, quote, "belittling and controlling"
of their father. On Twitter, Samantha has at times referred to Meghan as Cruella De Vil,
while also calling her such things as "inhumane," "arrogant," "deceitful," and "a narcissist."
Things recently seem to have come to a head, with Samantha filing a defamation lawsuit against
Meghan following her and Harry's interview with Oprah Winfrey. And now, Meghan has responded.
"What is your relationship with her?"
"I think it would be very hard to tell all when you don't know me."
In the defamation lawsuit originally filed in March, Samantha Markle said that Meghan
Markle lied about a number of things in extra footage released from the Oprah interview.
Those things include Meghan's claim about when the two half-siblings lost touch,
and the claim that she had put herself through college.
"The last time I saw her must have been at least 18, 19 years ago."
Samantha also claimed that the interview had a negative impact on the sales of her book.
The lawsuit also includes mention of negative references to Samantha in
the book "Finding Freedom." Samantha feels Meghan made specific references about her,
including that she had lost custody of her children. Meghan has since
filed to have Samantha's lawsuit dismissed as being "without merit."
Meghan Markle and her half-sister, Samantha Markle, also have wildly different recounts
of their childhood days. Among the many things that were claimed in Meghan and
Harry's Oprah interview, the Duchess of Sussex explained that she was raised as an only child,
which she says can be substantiated by anyone who knew her back then.
That's not to say that Meghan didn't have a desire to have siblings. Growing up without
brothers or sisters is reportedly one of the reasons the former "Suits" star
is so excited for her own kids, Archie and Lilibet, to have one another in their lives.
"I wished I had siblings. I would have loved to have siblings. That's why I'm
so excited to be pregnant, so that Archie has someone."
On the other hand, Samantha Markle had a different
story to share on Good Morning America in 2018, where she said,
"She was the baby in our household, we never addressed each other as half-sister.
We had two households, there was a bridge. We were united. So I thought, why doesn't she call me?"
In her latest dismissal request,
Meghan is standing by what she said in her interview with Oprah. Her dismissal request reads,
"We do not empanel juries to rule on whether two people are 'close,' or whether one
genuinely feels that they 'grew up as an only child.’ Courts are not equipped to adjudicate
the legitimacy of a person's feelings about their childhood and relationships."
Samantha Markle is not the only blood relative with whom the Duchess of Sussex
has a rocky relationship. On more than one occasion, Meghan Markle's father,
Thomas Markle, has spoken out against his daughter.
In a Channel 5 documentary, the Markle patriarch revealed that he
disapproved of Meghan and Harry's abrupt exit from the UK, saying,
"Every young girl wants to become a princess and she got that and now she's tossing that away.
It looks like she's tossing that away for money."
Markle's estranged father, who has reportedly not spoken to his daughter since her wedding in 2018,
has also been vocal about his lack of contact with his grandchildren, Archie and Lilibet.
Following the birth of Lilibet,
the former lighting director shared to "60 Minutes Australia,"
"I'm not a tearful type ... but I'm certainly hurt by a lot of it."
Thomas was "hurt" that he had to learn the news through a radio announcement,
rather than through a personal call.
Thomas has also revealed that he plans to take legal action
against his daughter, revealing to Fox News,
"I will be petitioning the California courts for the rights
to see my grandchildren in the very near future."
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