Meghan Markle’s pal has spoken out in opposition to the persistent detrimental narrative surrounding the Duchess of Sussex, saying she has endured “ridiculous lies” about her for years.
Christopher Bouzy, a longtime ally of the Sussexes, stated the “Suits” alum, 43, always faces “destructive” trolling on social media.
Bouzy, head of the social media evaluation agency Bot Sentinel, revealed that his firm’s investigation into the hate-fueled feedback concentrating on the previous working royal uncovered a concentrated group of social media accounts answerable for the assaults.
“It would be easy to laugh at such absurdity if it weren’t so destructive,” the tech entrepreneur informed Newsweek.
“Over the years, these ridiculous lies have cascaded into a full-blown harassment campaign against Meghan and her family.”
Bouzy appeared on the couple’s 2022 Netflix collection, “Harry & Meghan,” the place he mentioned his findings concerning the harassment marketing campaign in opposition to the As Ever founder.
“We cannot ignore the real-world impact that this kind of sustained conspiracy harassment has,” he added.
The duchess was broadly mocked final week after she shared a uncommon video of her and Prince Harry dancing within the hospital whereas awaiting the beginning of their daughter Lilibet in 2021.
The video, which Markle uploaded on June 4 in honor of Lilibet’s fourth birthday, confirmed the previous actress “drop it low” whereas dancing to Starrkeisha’s then-viral music, “The Baby Momma Dance,” whereas cradling her child bump.
“Imagine, for a moment, what it would feel like to have some of the happiest and most vulnerable moments of your life turned into ammunition for hate,” Bouzy went on.
“Every maternity dress and every baby video becomes ‘evidence’ for strangers obsessively trying to prove your pregnancies were a sham. It is sickening and cruel.”
The social media analyst talked about the “suicidal thoughts” Markle had confronted at “the height of the abuse,” saying “one doesn’t have to stretch to see a link between that despair and the ceaseless torrent of vilification she endured.”
“Beyond the personal toll on Meghan and Harry, there’s a broader societal damage to consider. When conspiracy theories like these flourish, they corrode our collective grasp on reality and decency,” he added.
Markle had beforehand stated on the “Teenage Therapy” podcast in 2020 that social media abuse in opposition to her had been “almost unsurvivable.”
Showing alongside her husband on the podcast, the mother of two stated she was informed that “in 2019, I was the most trolled person in the entire world – male or female.”
“[For] eight months of that, I wasn’t even visible, I was on maternity leave with the baby — but what was able to be manufactured and churned out, it’s almost unsurvivable, it’s so big you can’t even think what that feels like,” she went on.
“I don’t care if you’re 15 or 25, if people are saying things about you that aren’t true, what that does to your mental and emotional health is so damaging.”
Bouzy’s contradicting feedback could elevate eyebrows amongst those that keep in mind his personal private assaults in opposition to senior members of the royal household, together with Kate Middleton, Prince William, King Charles and Queen Camilla.
Bouzy as soon as took intention at William’s look, saying that the longer term king “looks like a balding Muppet” in a put up on X.
In October 2021, he wrote on X, “I’m sorry, but William and Kate look like Harry’s aunt and uncle.”
On one other event, he stated that the Prince and Princess of Wales are getting older shortly, writing on X, “I don’t understand why, since they have a team of people who wait on them hand and foot 24/7.”
Final 12 months, Bouzy shockingly claimed that the royal household had “lied” about Princess Catherine’s most cancers prognosis — and likened the heartbreaking video announcement to “North Korean propaganda.”
