Chat show queen Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is now the stuff of legend following some ‘bombshell’ moments during their controversial chat in 2021.
But the 68-year-old has insisted it was never her plan to extract some juicy morsels from the pair. She said she just wanted to give them a platform to tell their story and was as surprised as any when they dropped a few sensational claims into the conversation, the Mirror reported.
She told Gayle King on CBS: “I was as surprised by the bombshell as everybody else. I was doing an interview to offer them a platform to tell their story about why they left, and my number one intention was just clarity on 'why did you leave?’”
Oprah continued: "And so some of the things that were revealed in that interview came as a surprise to me and those surprises are now referred to as 'bombshell’, but I didn’t set out to do a ‘bombshell’ interview. I set out to do an interview, have a conversation that would allow them to tell their story.”
Gayle replied: “And now people say, ‘reconciliation, reconciliation, we hope the brothers reconcile’, what do you say?”
Oprah quickly fired back: “I do not get into people’s family matters. Everybody who has experienced some challenges in their families with in-laws or brothers or sisters knows how difficult some of those situations can be and I’m sure that you know for the royal family, it’s no different.
“And nobody comes talks to me about their family business. I try and stay out of people’s family business!”
During the 2021 tell-all interview with Oprah, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex spoke about their split from the Royal Family. They also revealed there had been “concerns” over the colour of their son Archie’s skin and said Prince Charles, now King, had stopped taking Harry’s phone calls.
Meghan said she had felt suicidal, but was not allowed to get help, and the pair also revealed they secretly got married before their royal wedding, and announced they were expecting their daughter in the summer of 2021.
In July of this year, it was reported that palace aides were running scared of the Sussexes causing “another world of pain” and playing the victim in a second bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview.
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