LONDON (Reuters) – Piers Morgan, the British presenter who has just missed his famous breakfast TV slot about attacks on Prince Harry Meghan’s wife on Wednesday, said he still did not believe what she had said through her interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Morgan, 55, left ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Tuesday after long criticizing Meghan for her interview with Winfrey, in which she revealed she felt suicidal while she lived as royal in Britain.
“On Monday, I said I didn’t believe Meghan Markle in her interview with Oprah. I have time to think about this idea, and I still haven’t. If you did, all right, ”Morgan said in a naturally controversial Tweet on Wednesday morning.
“Freedom of speech is a hill. I am happy to die. Thanks for all the love, and hate. I want to spend more time with my thoughts, ”he told his 7.8 million followers on Twitter.
He posted a picture of Winston Churchill with words on the subject of free speech.
In a two-hour interview that put the British monarchy in crisis, Meghan said the royal family refused her oath of support for mental health support and that someone in the household had raised questions about the skin color of her unborn son.
The morning after the interview aired on U.S. television, Morgan told Good Morning Britain, amid a flurry of criticism, that he did not believe a word Meghan said. In a Tweet, he nicknamed her “Princess Pinocchio”.
The next morning, he stopped the live program set when a co-presenter challenged him. Later in the day, ITV reported that he was leaving.
Monday’s program drew more than 41,000 complaints to the British media regulator, which cited an investigation under its “harm and crime” rules.
Morgan first made a name for himself in the cut-throat world of British tabloid media, culminating in stacks of the now-dead News of the World edition, then the Daily Mirror.
He later went into television, appearing as a judge on the reality shows showing America Got Talent and Britain’s Got Talent. For three years he held a talk show on CNN, replacing Larry King.
Reciting with Estelle Shirbon; Edited by Mike Collett-White