Meghan Markle says was a victim of real character assassination, didn’t want to be alive anymore

Meghan Markle on Sunday said that she was a victim of ‘real character assassination’. In a no-holds barred interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan revealed that a barrage of negative coverage in the British press had driven her to the point where life no longer seemed worth living. 

“I knew that if I didn’t say it, that I would do it. And I… just didn’t want to be alive anymore. And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought,” she said.

The 39-year-old also said that the royal family denied her mental health help when she told them she was struggling. She said that she was told “that I couldn’t, that it wouldn’t be good for the institution.”

The former Duchess of Sussex also revealed that she and Prince Harry got married three days ahead of the televised ceremony. “(T)hree days before our wedding, we got married,” she said, revealing that she and Prince Harry swapped vows in private before Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welsby ahead of the televised spectacle on May 19 2018 at Britain’s Windsor Castle.

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“No one knows that. But we called the archbishop, and we just said, ‘Look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world, but we want our union between us.'”