'EVERYWHERE & NOWHERE'
Meghan Markle tells Oprah she left house ‘twice in 4 months’ because she was ‘over-saturated’ and was ‘silenced’
MEGHAN Markle revealed to Oprah she had only left the house "twice in four months" because she was "over-saturated" and had been "silenced".
She said a family member urged her to stay at home, and claimed she wasn't given permission to get lunch with her friends.
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Cradling her baby bump alongside Prince Harry during a tense exchange from her bombshell interview with Oprah, Duchess of Sussex said the press had "oversaturated" her and she was urged to stay home.
She claimed to have only stepped foot out of the house two times in a total of four months.
"Lay low," she recounted a family member telling her, as she was all over the media - leading her to feel "lonely."
"I’m everywhere but I’m nowhere," she said.
It comes as:
- after the bombshell interview
- Markle admitted she learned about a family member who had 'concerns' over Archie's skin color
- The as the Royals braced themselves for the interview
- Markle was reportedly gutted when the Queen rejected her plea to live at Windsor
As Meghan talked about how her loneliness led her to have suicidal thoughts, adding: "I just didn’t want to be alive anymore."
Oprah responded by likening her situation to being "trapped."
"You... couldn’t get help, even though you were on the verge of suicide," Oprah said, leading Meghan to admit "that's the truth."
Shortly after, Meghan said: "The most important title I will ever have is mom."
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Meghan also admitted she was worried for her son's safety if he didn't have a royal title.
"We haven’t created this monster machine around us in terms of clickbait and avoid offer," Meghan said. "You’ve allowed that to happen, which means our son needs to be safe."
Sitting alongside Meghan, who announced her second pregnancy this month after welcoming their son Archie in May 2019, was Prince Harry, also admitted to feeling "trapped" from the institution.
During the interview, Oprah asked the Duchess, "were you silent or were you silenced" -- hinting at division between the former TV star and the Royal Family.
Meghan answered that question by saying: "The latter."
"They [the institution] were willing to lie to protect other members of the family. But they weren't willing to tell the truth to protect me and my husband," she explained.
At one point, Oprah said to Meghan: "Everybody who gets married knows that you are really marrying the family too.
"But you weren’t just marrying a family. You were marrying a 1,200-year-old institution. You were marrying the monarchy."
Meghan opened up and said she went into it "naively."
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex shocked the world last year when they announced they would be stepping away from royal duties and would instead call North America home.
In the , the TV icon is heard saying to Meghan: "Almost unsurvivable, sounds like there was a breaking point."
"My biggest concern was history repeating itself," Harry said, referring to his mom Princess Diana who died at 36 in a car crash in Paris following her divorce from Prince Charles.
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In the Harry added: "I'm just really relieved and happy to be sitting here talking to you with my wife by my side."
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"Because I can't imagine what it must have been like for her," he said in reference to his mom, "going through this process by herself all those years ago."
"It's been unbelievably tough for the two of us, but at least we had each other," he ended.
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