Piers Morgan has left Good Morning Britain - but says he still stands by his comments about Meghan Markle

By Helen Johnson
Published 10th Mar 2021, 09:05 GMT
Updated 10th Mar 2021, 09:05 GMT

Piers Morgan has said he still doesn’t believe the Duchess of Sussex after he left Good Morning Britain following his controversial comments he made about her interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Piers Morgan has said he still doesn’t believe the Duchess of Sussex (Photo: Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for BAFTA LA)placeholder image
Piers Morgan has said he still doesn’t believe the Duchess of Sussex (Photo: Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for BAFTA LA)

In an interview with Winfrey aired in the US on Sunday (7 March) and the UK on Monday (8 March), Meghan Markle discussed her life as a working royal and said she reached a point where she “didn’t want to be alive anymore”.

However, on Monday’s Good Morning Britain show, Morgan said he “didn’t believe a word of it”.

The presenter now faces an Ofcom investigation after the regulator received 41,000 complaints in response to his comments.

Although Morgan has now left the show, he has said he still stands by his comments about the duchess.

He wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning: “On Monday, I said I didn’t believe Meghan Markle in her Oprah interview. I’ve had time to reflect on this opinion, and I still don’t. If you did, OK. Freedom of speech is a hill I’m happy to die on. Thanks for all the love, and hate. I’m off to spend more time with my opinions.”