Part of using that voice includes sitting down with their new Santa Barbara neighbor to talk through exactly what went down behind palace walls. “The interview is going to shine a light on what they have been through,” a source told E! News. “Meghan and Harry are relieved they are away from it all.”
No longer official royals, they technically didn’t need to give the palace a heads up about their big interview, a source telling Vanity Fair that Buckingham was very much not consulted despite the couple having been in contact with the Queen to work out the details of their exit.
To Meghan and Harry, the no-holds-barred chat was a chance for them to “tell the truth and their side of the story about what really happened,” an insider explained to a mag. And, frankly, Meghan told Oprah she’s not all that worried about what the palace might have to say afterward. “I don’t know how they could expect that after all of this time we would still just be silent,” she explained in the Mar. 7 CBS special, “when there is an active role that the Firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us.”
They absolutely did not hold back about how awful that period was, with Meghan revealing at the lowest point she experienced suicidal ideation because “I just didn’t want to be alive anymore. And that was a very clear and real and frightening and constant thought.”
