Meghan Markle’s Netflix cooking series, in which she details her childhood, premiered on Tuesday and her half-brother is not buying the alleged sob story.
The Duchess of Sussex’s estranged half-brother Thomas Markle Jr. blasted her “malarkey stories,” featured in With Love, Meghan, arguing that their childhood wasn’t bad at all.
The Suits alum called herself a “latchkey kid” and attempted to connect with viewers by sharing her modest childhood experience complete with “a lot of fast food and TV tray dinners.”
“It feels like such a different time, but that was so normal with the microwavable kids meals,” Meghan said on the series, in an episode discussing her tips for hosting at home.
The 43-year-old explained, like she has claimed in the past, that meals in her early days often came from the likes of fast food chains like Pollo Loco, Taco Bell and Jack In The Box.
Back in 2021, Markle revealed that she “grew up on the $4.99 salad bar at Sizzler,” in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
All this said, Markle’s half-brother was far from sold by her antics.
“That’s just another one of the malarkey stories she sold to the royal family for sympathy,” he told TalkTV. “We weren’t poor. She didn’t have to rub two nickels together at Sizzler’s salad bar.”
“The entire world knows how she treated her family, especially her father, who gave her everything. That’s why nobody’s buying it,” he added.
Markle Jr., who hasn’t spoken to the duchess in over a decade, divulged that although he did start to watch his half-sister’s Netflix show, he soon “realized there’s something better I could be doing with my time.”
“Everybody’s going to watch the first episode, and it’ll be the worst critically acclaimed episode of all time,” he added. “Then, five or six minutes into the second, they’ll probably commit themselves to a psychiatric ward.”
According to the 58-year-old, watching the Netflix series was “the first time I felt sorry and embarrassed for her.”
Despite his supposed pity, he decided not to let their father Thomas Markle Sr., whose health is declining, watch his estranged daughter on TV.
“I didn’t have enough heart medication for him to watch it,” Markle’s half-brother said. “I didn’t want him to kick the bucket, so I’d have to go refill the prescription before I let him watch it.”
Markle Jr.’s jabs didn’t stop there. While Meghan says cooking is her love language, he claims she “didn’t cook anything for anybody ever growing up.”
With Love, Meghan, directed by Michael Steed and produced by the duchess and Prince Harry, is an eight-episode series.
