Following the explosive interview Meghan Markle and Prince Harry gave Oprah Winfrey, people had been talking about some eerily prescient feedback John Oliver made back in 2018.
Markle and Prince Harry agreed to sit down for a two-hour interview with Winfrey aired previous this week. The couple unfolded on the racist abuse Markle received after becoming a member of the British Royal Family, which was once among the causes the pair left the United Kingdom.
The interview also includes a segment in which Markle revealed that she’d thought to be taking her personal existence because of the abuse.
Ahead of Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding ceremony in 2018, Oliver anticipated that marrying a member of a royal relations was once going to be an emotionally taxing experience for the former actress.
“I might not blame her if she pulled out of this at the last minute,” Oliver advised Stephen Colbert in 2018.
“I don’t suppose you want to have simply observed the pilot episode of The Crown to get a fundamental sense that she might be marrying into a kinfolk that might cause her some emotional headaches," Oliver added.
The host and comedian also said he, a commoner, wouldn’t dream of marrying into the royal family as he knew he wouldn’t “be welcomed”.
“I hope she likes it, it’s going to be weird for her,” the comedian also said.
"I am keen on @iamjohnoliver and I all the time have! Of direction, he was prescient about Meghan Markle and Harry! He's a brilliant Brit, who lives in the US, so in fact, he understands," was one comment on Twitter.
"John Oliver re: Meghan Markle sooner than wedding to Prince Harry: 'I'd no longer blame her if she pulled out of this in the remaining minute, they’re an emotionally stunted crew of essentially incorrect other people doing a very foolish pseudo job. It’s going to be bizarre,'" someone else tweeted.
Several celebrities jumped to Markle’s defence after the interview with Winfrey.
Jameela Jamil, known for the role of Tahani in NBC comedy The Good Place, made a good point about the abuse Markle has been subjected to by the public and certain media outlets since her relationship with Harry.
“Can’t believe Meghan time travelled backwards to make this happen,” Jamil captioned a photo of Prince Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
The snap isn’t just any picture. It’s a shot of Prince Andrew hugging Virginia Roberts Giuffre. The American activists is one of the most vocal survivors of the sex trafficking ring operated by convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. She claimed she had been trafficked by Epstein and his ex-partner and associate Ghislaine Maxwell to a number of men, including Prince Andrew.
With her caption, Jamil is taking aim at the treatment Markle has received from some British tabloids. The Duchess appears to be constantly framed in a negative, racist light, while the members of the royal family don’t seem to be held accountable in the same way.
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