Meg defends telling Oprah she was an only child, because she ‘felt like one’
The Duchess of Sussex has defended telling Oprah that she was an only child, as the law-suite with her half sister rages on.
The Duchess of Sussex suggested to Oprah she grew up an only child, telling the chat show queen in her bombshell interview last year: “I would have loved to have had siblings”.
This comment is one of the reasons that Samantha Markle, Meghan’s half sister, is suing her for deformation.
But Meghan’s legal team has defended these comments.
In legal papers submitted to a court in Florida, the Duchess’ legal team wrote: “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.”
They added: “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.”
