Great Early Morning Britain host Piers Morgan stormed off the set of the U.K. early morning program mid-episode on Tuesday, after among his associates held him responsible for current criticism of Meghan Markle.
Initially, some context: Throughout Markle and Prince Harry’s well-watched interview with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday night, Markle spoke openly about her unfavorable experiences with both the royal household and the British press. In an especially sobering section, she exposed that the extreme public analysis surrounding her triggered self-destructive ideas, for which she was not able to get any assistance at the time.
On Monday’s Great Early Morning Britain broadcast, Morgan was angry about the interview, which he called “a two-hour trash-a-thon of our royal household, of the monarchy, of whatever the Queen has actually worked so hard for.”
Later on because episode, after the program played a clip of Markle confessing to self-destructive ideas, Morgan stated, “I do not think a word she states, Meghan Markle. I would not think it if she read me a weather forecast. (His co-host Susanna Reid responded, “That’s a quite worthless response to somebody who has actually revealed those ideas,” while the British psychological health charity Mind condemned Morgan’s statement on Twitter.)
Throughout Tuesday’s episode of the ITV series, weatherman Alex Beresford even more took Morgan to job for his previous remarks– later identifying them as “definitely wicked habits”– which triggered Morgan’s exit from the set.
” I comprehend that you do not like Meghan Markle. You have actually made it so clear a variety of times on this program,” Beresford stated. “And I comprehend that you have actually got an individual relationship with Meghan Markle, or had one, and she cut you off. She’s entitled to cut you off if she wishes to. Has she stated anything about you given that she’s cut you off? I do not believe she has, however yet you continue to trash her.”
At that point, Morgan responded, “OK, I’m finished with this,” and left the phase, which Beresford countered was a “worthless” reaction. However Morgan did return later on in the program, and though he preserved he does not think “what Meghan Markle states usually in this interview,” he reiterated his position on psychological health and suicide.
” These are plainly incredibly major things and need to be taken incredibly seriously, and if somebody is feeling that method they need to get the treatment and the assistance that they require each time,” he continued. “And if they come from an organization like the royal household they need to look for that assistance and be provided it. It’s not for me to question if she felt self-destructive. I am not in her mind which is for her to state.”
Watch Morgan’s exit from the set listed below:
Piers Morgan simply strolled off the Great Early morning Britain set (!!!) after co-presenter Alex Beresford protected Harry and Meghan and condemned Piers’ treatment of them in the other day’s programs pic.twitter.com/mH75J8ND4O
— Chris Rickett (@chrisrickett) March 9, 2021
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