MEGHAN MARKLE has hit a fresh wave of accusations from former employees after she was branded a “demonic” boss who had “psycho moments”.
Last night, a former courtier who worked for Meghan and Prince Harry claimed there were “definitely bad, very bad, even psycho moments” during their time with the Duchess.
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Meghan and Harry battle to refute claims by former staff that the Duchess is a ‘demonic’ boss who has had ‘psycho’ moments Credit: Rex
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Meghan and Harry are understood to be furious at the negative publicityCredit: Getty
The Daily Beast website published the comments.
An unnamed source was quoted as saying, “I’ve witnessed people being chewed out in person and over the phone and made to feel a**sh.”
The STUNNING claims follow a recent story in another US publication, The Hollywood Reporter, which described Meghan’s management style as a “dictator in high heels” who reduced “grown men” to tears.
Meghan’s team has already sought to refute those earlier claims – which are said to have been gathered from a number of current and former employees.
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In an extraordinary move to undermine the story this week, five current and former employees of the Duchess of Sussex publicly defended her, saying she was “the best boss ever”.
Us Weekly, a magazine known to be friendly to the royal couple, stood up for them with an article titled “What it’s really like to work for Meghan Markle: Employees reveal the truth behind the rumours”.
‘Negative publicity’
The article quoted former employees as saying that Meghan was actually a caring and considerate boss.
It included claims she gives staff bouquets of fresh-cut flowers, home-grown eggs and makes her team “feel like they’re watering seeds”.
The article was widely dismissed as fluff, with speculation that it was potentially orchestrated by Meghan’s PR team.
Meghan, 43, and Harry, 40, are reportedly furious at The Hollywood Reporter’s claims and are desperate to stem the tide of negative publicity they are facing on the other side of the Atlantic.
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It comes at an incredibly awkward time as Meghan prepares to launch a cookery show and cookbook to go with her new lifestyle brand called American Riviera Orchard.
An ex-employee who spoke to the Daily Beast dismissed the Us Weekly article as an exercise in cynicalism, saying, “She’s lovely when things are going well, but she’s a demon when the worm turns.”
In public, the former actress Odijela presents herself as happy and pensive. But claims by The Hollywood Reporter that she “barks” at orders and sends angry e-mails at 5 a.m. eat away at that image.
An insider told The Sun last night: “The Sussexes have been left shaken by The Hollywood Reporter’s story.
“The Us Weekly story appears to have been approved by the couple as even Archewell’s current head of global communications, Ashley Hansen, is quoted by name.”
Archewell is the Sussexes’ charitable foundation, whose name was inspired by their five-year-old son Archie.
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Meghan is set to launch a cookery show and cookbook to go with her new lifestyle brand called American Riviera OrchardCredit: Getty
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Former chief of staff, Catherine St-Laurent, said: ‘The time I spent working with Prince Harry and Meghan was incredibly meaningful’ Credit: Linkedin
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‘Meghan would contact my husband every day to make sure we were both okay,’ said Ashley Hansen, pictured left
The production company, also called Archewell, which has helped produce the couple’s podcasts and documentaries, has an estimated £75m deal with Netflix and a £20m deal with Spotify which has supported the couple’s luxury lifestyle at their Montecito, California villa.
They need more money-spinning projects like that to pay their huge salaries and keep traveling the world in private jets.
There’s no doubt that the quotes about Meghan published in Us Weekly are bursting with incredible fervor.
Hansen told how her employers supported her when she had to take extended leave due to surgery.
She’s lovely when things are going her way, but she’s a demon when the worm turns
Former employee
She told the magazine: “Meghan would personally check in with my husband every day to make sure we were both okay and that we had support.”
Unnamed current and former staff members claimed they left work with “a basket of fresh flowers, fresh fruit, fresh eggs” or received gifts such as a “luxury dog leash”.
Josh Kettler, the last chief of staff who left in August, also spoke on their behalf.
He described the Sussexes as “committed and hard-working”, while another former chief of staff, Catherine St-Laurent, said: “The time I spent working with Prince Harry and Meghan was incredibly meaningful.”
While praising Meghan’s “humanitarian” work, Archewell’s former COO Mandana Dayani even managed to put down her friend’s culinary skills.
She said: “Some of my favorite memories were during our weekly meetings at their home in Montecito, where Meghan always served the most amazing lunches, snacks and her latest beautiful concoction.”
Most notably, one comment from an anonymous source accused The Hollywood Reporter of publishing comments “probably made up by someone who is disgruntled.”
But The Hollywood Reporter doesn’t present things that way.
‘Felt Meghan’s anger’
Earlier this week, the publication’s co-editor Maer Roshan stood by an article published on September 12 titled: “Why Hollywood keeps giving up on Harry and Meghan.”
He hit back after a Sussex source was quoted as describing the report as “fabricated”.
Maer told US TV show Access Hollywood: “Our reporter spoke to a very senior source who works for the couple and said, ‘Everyone is terrified of Meghan.’ “
He said that before going to press, his reporters spoke to a dozen people who have worked with Harry and Meghan in the past and now.
Maer also noted that the accounts of those staff members were similar to reports in The Times who claimed they “felt Meghan’s wrath”.
The Times reported claims she had bullied staff in the royal household – which Meghan’s lawyer strongly denied at the time as “baseless defamation”.
Maer said: “‘Duchess Heavy’ is a nickname that has followed Meghan for several years.
“What is new is the idea, since coming to America, that many of these rumors were produced by the Palace. The reporting we’ve done suggests that’s probably not true and there’s still that undercurrent of fear.”
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Josh Kettler, the last chief of staff who left in August, also spoke on their behalfCredit: Getty
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Harry has previously claimed that the royal family, nicknamed The Firm, were plotting against his wifeCredit: Getty
After repeated critical comments about Meghan in 2019, anonymous friends spoke in her defense to People magazine in the US.
People’s editor at the time, Dan Wakeford, is now the editor of Us Weekly. In both cases, the magazines deny that Meghan or Harry personally briefed them.
This time, Us Weekly said it tracked down a staff member’s Instagram post standing up for their boss.
But questions have been raised in the past about whether or not Meghan is whispering in the ear of the press.
‘The best of the best’
In a High Court case four years ago, Meghan denied directing Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie, a former Us Weekly writer, for their unauthorized autobiography about the couple, titled Finding Freedom.
She had to apologize to a judge in 2021 because she forgot to exchange emails with an assistant who was supposed to inform Scobie and Durand.
Meghan insisted she had “no intention of misleading” the court. The Sussexes have long tried to control who covers their media events and hit back at any negative coverage.
Harry even claimed that the royal family, nicknamed The Firm, were plotting against his wife.
In his Apple TV+ series The Me You Can’t See, he said there was a “combined effort by the company and the media to smear her”.
The Sussexes were left shaken by the Hollywood Reporter’s story
The team of the country’s vice president, Francia Marquez, kicked journalists covering the couple’s tour of Colombia, South America, from WhatsApp groups for reporting on security.
Photos of Harry looking sullen in Colombia while Meghan happily claps told their own story.
Harry had just been on a two-day publicity trip to New York without her and had traveled to a fundraiser in Santa Barbara without his wife.
The Duke, who will embark on his fourth trip to the UK without his wife this weekend, also went on a boys’ night out for his 40th birthday.
Of course, it’s entirely possible that the staffer who told Us Weekly that Harry and Meghan “picked the best of the best from every field and watered the seeds to make them bloom” did so with genuine enthusiasm.
Or, perhaps, a good portion of fertilizer was on hand.
What is Meghan and Harry’s Archewell Foundation charity?
AFTER stepping down as senior royals, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have launched their own non-profit foundation, Archewell.
The non-profit organization aims to offer “courses, lectures, seminars, conferences, workshops and retreats on a variety of topics”, run a mentoring scheme or run and host “events and exhibitions for cultural, sporting, health, mental and entertainment purposes.”
The website was launched on New Year’s Eve 2020 and the couple included sweet black and white photos of them with their mothers as they called for “compassion” in an open letter.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed that Arche, a Greek word meaning source of action, was also the inspiration for their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor’s name.
“We connected with this concept for a charity we hoped to build one day, and it became the inspiration for our son’s name,” they told The Daily Telegraph. “To do something significant, to do something that matters.
“Archewell is a name that combines an ancient word for strength and action and another that invokes the deep resources each of us must tap into.”
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