‘I went too far on Meghan’ says Morgan
PIERS Morgan admits he went over the top when he accused the Duchess of Sussex of splitting her husband Harry from the Royal Family.
The Good Morning Britain presenter had also claimed Meghan had ditched her own relatives.
He said: “It’s probably not wise, if you’re a columnist, to make things too personal.”
Commenting on his previous stance about the duchess, he said: “Have I taken things a bit too far? Probably.
“Do I think that will govern and temper how I talk about them going forward? Absolutely.”
He added that he is at his “best as a journalist on stuff that really matters”.
Recently he has torn strips off Government ministers over the handling
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of the pandemic. In a newspaper interview he said: “It’s the stuff that is substantial, particularly when people’s lives are at stake, that seems to galvanise my personality into the best possible place.
“And it’s times of relative peace, calm, quiet and, dare I say, boredom that might occasionally bring out the worst in me.
“Having squabbles with people who are never going to change their mind in a million years about stuff – that no longer seems remotely important.”
The host was a regular critic of Meghan and Harry after they said they would step back from being senior royals. In January, he tweeted: “People say I’m too critical of Meghan Markle – but she ditched her family, ditched her Dad, ditched most of her old friends, split Harry from William and has now split him from the Royal Family. I rest my case.”
Last year, he accused her of behaving like a member of the TV family the Kardashians “not somebody who married into the Royal Family”.