Meghan McCain points out discrepancy in Meghan Markle’s claims for filing complaint against Piers Morgan

Megan McCain has highlighted an inconsistency relating to Meghan Markle’s two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey and her lodging a complaint to ITV about Piers Morgan.

The Duchess Of Sussex made a number of bombshell revelations during her tell-all chat, including how she doesn’t read the tabloid news stories written about her but instead hears coverage from her close friends.

Television personality McCain, however, argued that this conflicts with Markle’s formal complaint against Morgan’s comments on Good Morning Britain before he quit the programme last week.

Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of The View, McCain said: ‘I am also a free speech advocate, I am an opinion host with very controversial opinions.

‘And it’s a very foreign and Wild West concept that you can have an opinion and be cancelled for it. 

‘But I do think when you’re talking about decorum, of kindness and talking of mental health – there was huge outrage with over 41 ,000 complaints given to Good Morning Britain, which was the show he hosted.’

She continued: ‘This is a really tricky one for me because any kind of censorship makes me uncomfortable.

‘I think anyone who makes their living off giving their opinions, especially when they’re not popular, feels that way. 

‘That being said it’s cruel and unkind to second guess someone who is being very open about their mental health issues.’

McCain added: ‘Meghan Markle herself put in a formal complaint against Piers Morgan.

‘The only thing I have to say about that is Meghan Markle said in her interview, the only thing that I questioned, she said she didn’t read her press and she didn’t read her publicity. She’s clearly paying attention to her publicity if she’s putting in a formal complaint.’

Markle is said to have complained to ITV after Morgan told Good Morning Britain viewers that he didn’t believe her mental health struggles.

The complaint is understood to focus on how Morgan’s comments may affect the issue of mental health generally and those attempting to deal with their own problems.

Morgan stood by his remarks, however, and speaking to press outside his London home following his exit from the show, he said: ‘If I have to fall on my sword for expressing an honestly-held opinion about Meghan Markle and that diatribe of bilge that she came out with in that interview, so be it.’

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