Abigail Spencer Explains How Her Plan to Help Meghan Markle Almost Backfired During Daily Mail Lawsuit

When Meghan Markle was facing scrutiny from the press in early 2019, five of her friends anonymously spoke to People magazine to clear the air about rumors that had been spreading.

In the new docu-series Harry and Meghan, Suits actress Abigail Spencer and producer Silver Tree revealed that they were behind the article and it was also revealed in the docu-series that their plan to help Meghan almost backfired.

Abigail said, “I called one of my closest friends, who just so happened at the time to be the editor of People magazine. I said, we have to turn this narrative around. It will just be her closest friends coming together to talk about the person who she really is in the middle of this s–tstorm.”

Click inside to find out how the article almost backfired…

The article almost became a key part of a lawsuit and it could have backfired against Meghan.

Meghan sued The Daily Mail‘s parent company Associated Newspapers Limited over articles in 2018 that had reproduced her private letter that she sent to her estranged father Thomas Markle.

In the docu-series, Meghan‘s lawyer Jenny Afia explained that “the Mail were going to argue that Meghan‘s friends had already spoken about the letter to People magazine and that Meghan had authorized that interview, which she hadn’t.”

Meghan said, “I don’t know how many pages the article itself was, but within it there were, I think, a few sentences that pertained to my father and the fact that I’d reached out to him.”

Abigail explained, “We all knew that Meghan had written her father a letter. I did not catch in that People Magazine story that someone mentioned the letter. You can do something in total love, and that is for good, and they find one piece, and then it becomes this whole other thing.”

In the People story, one of the friends said, “Meg heard [her father] had a heart attack and she’s calling and texting, even up to the night before the wedding. It was like, ‘Please pick up. I love you, and I’m scared.’ It was endless. After the wedding she wrote him a letter. She’s like, ‘Dad, I’m so heartbroken. I love you. I have one father. Please stop victimizing me through the media so we can repair our relationship.’”

Jenny added, “They ran this false claim that Meghan had authorized this interview with People Magazine. So the argument was she had therefore given up all rights, anything to do with the letter whatsoever. And Associated said all of her friends’ identities should be revealed as part of the case.”

Meghan would not let the friends’ identities be revealed. Thankfully, the article didn’t backfire in the end as Meghan won the case and Associated had to pay $1 million in damages for the privacy breach.

There are also tons of bombshell revelations in the new docuseries, including ones against Prince William and Prince Charles.