Brooke Shields' podcast criticizing Meghan Markle reportedly deleted

The Pretty Baby star, Brooke Shields, has been making headlines after her video criticizing Meghan Markle is no longer available on the internet. Veteran actress Brooke Shields, who has had a successful yet controversial career, during a recent conversation with India Hicks on her podcast, talked about how she had to interrupt the Duchess of Sussex, Markle, while they were speaking at an SXSW (South by Southwest) panel in 2024.

In one of the latest episodes of India Hicks' podcast, who is a British writer and designer and also happens to be a relative of the British royal family, Brooke Shields called Meghan Markle "precious." However, people took notice when the episode was reportedly deleted, as it is nowhere to be found on the internet, not even on Hicks' official website.

Brooke Shields, who began her acting career at an extremely young age, gained major recognition after starring in Louis Malle's 1978 film Pretty Baby. While she pursued modeling in her late teen years, she continued acting and appeared in movies like Endless Love and The Blue Lagoon. While talking with Hicks about the time when she and Meghan spoke on an SXSW panel titled "Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen," which was led by American journalist Katie Couric, she recalled the story Meghan narrated to the panel and the audience.

According to The Independent, Brooke Shields, during Hicks' podcast, called Meghan's story "too serious." The 60-year-old actress said:

"Katie asks the first question to Meghan and she talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women."

Brooke continued and said:

"She starts telling a story about how when she was 11 – and she keeps saying, ‘Well, when I was 11, I saw this commercial and they were talking about how washing dishes was for women. And she said, ‘I didn’t think only women wash dishes. It wasn’t fair. So I wrote to the company.'"

She went ahead and told Hicks:

"She kept saying she was 11! She wrote to the company, they changed the text, they changed the commercial. It was just too precious, and I was like, they’re not going to want to sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious."

To make the moment less intense, Brooke Shields interrupted Meghan Markle and said:

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"I go, ‘Excuse me, I’m so sorry, I’ve got to interrupt you there for one minute.’ I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious. I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we’re different. When I was 11, I was playing a prostitute."

Brooke claimed that the audience instantly felt more relaxed after she cracked the joke.

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