{"id":292344,"date":"2020-05-13T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1151624"},"modified":"2020-05-13T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T22:43:09","slug":"shahs-of-sunsets-nema-vand-says-meghan-markle-toyed-with-his-heart-as-a-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/shahs-of-sunsets-nema-vand-says-meghan-markle-toyed-with-his-heart-as-a-teen\/","title":{"rendered":"Shahs of Sunset&#8217;s Nema Vand Says Meghan Markle &#8220;Toyed&#8221; With His Heart as a Teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020413\/rs_1024x759-200513154010-1024-nema-vad-meghan-markle-high-school.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Nema Vand, Meghan Markle\" alt=\"Nema Vand, Meghan Markle\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Randy Shropshire\/USA Network; Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.394540942928\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.426799007444\">\n<p><em>Shahs of Sunset<\/em> star&nbsp;<strong>Nema Vand<\/strong>&nbsp;is revealing the impressive way that&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/meghan_markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a><\/strong>wooed him in their teens.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Duchess of Sussex went to an all-girls high school, the reality star is revealing on the&nbsp;<em>Real Life With Kate Casey<\/em> podcast that he got to know her because her alma mater was the sister school to his. It was through this connection that Vand got to know Meghan as the&nbsp;woman that everyone was &#8220;in love&#8221; with.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up with her. We were friends for a long time. She was a year older than me. Meghan was amazing, a woman among girls,&#8221; he recalled, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/05\/13\/shahs-of-sunset-star-nema-vand-talks-about-growing-up-with-meghan-markle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to <em>Page Six<\/em>. &#8220;She was sweet, and very kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This made her a hit among the men in their friend group, including Nema himself, who fondly remembers one instance in which she wowed him with her intelligence and smooth skills.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>Nema shares, &#8220;We were at a party one time and she sat on my lap. She got nose-to-nose with me. For a 16-year-old guy, that is an emotional moment. She said to me in Farsi, &#8216;You are so beautiful.&#8217; I asked her, &#8216;How do you know Farsi?&#8217; She said, &#8216;I learned it for you.&#8217; Then she walked away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23\">\n<p>That &#8220;almost make-out,&#8221; as Nema calls it,&nbsp;was the extent of their romance, but&nbsp;he&nbsp;says Meghan &#8220;knew what she was doing,&#8221; when she approached him in that way. &#8220;She toyed with our hearts masterfully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He insists he holds no bad feelings about the incident, but the same can&#8217;t be said for&nbsp;their mutual&nbsp;friend&nbsp;<strong>Gabe<\/strong>. He alleges Meghan &#8220;ghosted&#8221; Gabe, who she dated in high school, after finding fame on&nbsp;<em>Suits<\/em>, something that&nbsp;&#8220;hurt&#8221; the feelings of this&nbsp;adult man.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nema adds, &#8220;I got the sense Gabe really valued her friendship. So Meghan, if you hear this, reach out to Gabe. You know who that is, and just right that ship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"30.452247191011\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"11.522471910112\">\n<p>Nema is yet another old friend of the Duchess who has spoken out about their previous encounters. Her former&nbsp;<em>Cuts&nbsp;<\/em>co-star&nbsp;<strong>Simon Rex&nbsp;<\/strong>claimed that he was once friends with the star, something that the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1132983\/meghan-markle-s-former-co-star-says-he-was-bribed-with-s70-000-to-lie-about-their-relationship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British tabloids allegedly tried to exploit.<\/a>&nbsp;He shared, &#8220;Nothing happened. We never even kissed. We hung out once in a very non-datey way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meghan has never addressed her past friendships or scorned lovers. Instead she and husband&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_harry\">Prince Harry<\/a><\/strong>focus on their more charitable endeavors, even using their son&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/archie_harrison\">Archie Harrison<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s first birthday as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1148633\/meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-share-adorable-new-video-with-archie-for-his-first-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opportunity to highlight the #SaveWithStories campaign,<\/a>&nbsp;which&nbsp;brings much-needed support to children who have been impacted by the the Coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1151624\/shahs-of-sunset-s-nema-vand-says-meghan-markle-toyed-with-his-heart-as-a-teen?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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Though the Duchess of Sussex went to an all-girls high school, the reality star is revealing on the&nbsp;Real Life With Kate Casey podcast that he got to know her because her alma mater was the sister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 04:01:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}