Meghan Markle’s Team Slam Claims Suggesting She Lied About Being An ‘Only Child’ In Tell-All Oprah Interview
28.07.2022 - 15:39
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Meghan Markle’s legal team have denied their client lied to Oprah Winfrey about being an “only child” after her half-sister Samantha filed a lawsuit against her.
Samantha is seeking $75,000 in damages over claims made in the Finding Freedom biography, written by Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie, and that tell-all Oprah chat that aired last March.
Samantha insisted the pair share the same dad, Thomas Markle, despite Meghan telling Oprah she grew up as an “only child.”
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Meghan’s legal team said in legal papers submitted to a court in Florida this week, according to Hello!: “Plaintiff [Samantha] first asserts that she can disprove that Meghan ‘grew up as an only child.’
“But this perception is inherently unfalsifiable. It is hard to imagine a more personal and subjective feeling than how one views their own childhood.”
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They went on: “Moreover, Plaintiff’s opposition completely ignores the context of the statement, where Ms. Winfrey asked Meghan about her ‘relationship’ with Plaintiff (to whom Ms Winfrey referred as her ‘half-sister on her father’s side’).
“Meghan’s response to that question that she ‘grew up as an only child’ was obviously not meant to be a statement of objective fact that she had no genetic siblings or half-siblings.
“Rather, it was a textbook example of a subjective statement about how a person feels about her childhood.”
Samantha previously claimed Meghan’s words “hurt sales of her autobiography, prevented her from getting jobs and caused emotional and