{"id":293339,"date":"2020-06-09T15:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1159796"},"modified":"2020-06-09T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:10:59","slug":"author-emily-giffin-reflects-on-her-mean-criticism-of-meghan-markle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/author-emily-giffin-reflects-on-her-mean-criticism-of-meghan-markle\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Emily Giffin Reflects On Her &#8221;Mean&#8221; Criticism of Meghan Markle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202046\/rs_600x600-200506144007-600-markle.cm.5620.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.167164179104\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"24.931343283582\">\n<p>It&#8217;s been nearly a month since <strong>Emily Giffin<\/strong>&nbsp;made headlines for calling&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/meghan_markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1149079\/author-emily-giffin-sparks-backlash-for-calling-meghan-markle-phony-and-unmaternal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;phony&#8221; and &#8220;unmaternal,&#8221;<\/a> but the author&nbsp;<em>still<\/em> has another apology to get off her chest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need to be more careful about the impact of my words,&#8221; the <em>Something Borrowed&nbsp;<\/em>author told AP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/emily-giffin-meghan-markle-apology_n_5edf9829c5b6f05dc48aedcb?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFoFh9LNFZWxWWlqp4v4bc9Ru78S5b5F4GPuEsMXgRRmNHrCgfyQXx85FbpudlqCYWSzWOX10qzzygl0d272UU955GNSKQTMjAmN0pmmxqkn0uDiMMr4ywc3-eekERtuUoMQXSczgZO3YsqS2RjIPUCwJKlzE2FuE_LHvL5f3Sex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via the&nbsp;<em>Huffington Post<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em>&#8220;Being unfiltered, which is what I&#8217;ve chosen to be and the person I am in real life, and the person that you see on social media, definitely means that I&#8217;m going to make mistakes, too.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As readers may recall, Giffin made the comments against Markle publicly on social media on the day of her son&#8217;s first birthday&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/archie_harrison\">Archie Harrison<\/a><\/strong>after she uploaded a video of herself reading a children&#8217;s book to him.&nbsp;In text message screenshots shared by Giffin, the&nbsp;<em>Something Blue<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>also&nbsp;said the video was &#8220;uncomfortable to watch&#8221; and that Markle was &#8220;such a phony,&#8221; among other things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now she&#8217;s admitting to&nbsp;the publication that her comments &#8220;were not legitimate&#8221; and that in face, &#8220;they were just mean.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"71\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>In May, when Giffin made those comments, the author issued a statement published on her Instagram after receiving backlash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I enjoy following celebrities and analyzing them with my readers. I post dozens of IG stories a day in a very honest, unfiltered way, as if I&#8217;m confiding directly with close friends. Further, I&#8217;m very interested in the British monarchy. I always have been. See the link in my bio for an essay I wrote in the days before Meghan and Harry wed. To be clear, I absolutely loved that a biracial, American woman was marrying into the Royal Family. It seemed a wonderful, happy thing for everyone,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I celebrated their wedding by hosting a gathering here at my home and posting many, many photos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She went on, &#8220;Further, I was appalled by any signs of racism against her. Over recent months my feelings about BOTH Harry and Meghan changed. But I can say from the bottom of my heart that my criticism of Meghan has never had anything to do with her race. Further, I understood why she wanted to leave the monarchy and carve out her own path. I do, however, find fault with the way BOTH she and Harry handled things, and those feelings bled over in later posts, including the ones today. I can see how some of my posts may have felt mean-spirited, and could be construed as having racial undertones. It was not my intent, but I understand that intent and impact are two very different things. And I am truly sorry for that negative impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1159796\/author-emily-giffin-reflects-on-her-mean-criticism-of-meghan-markle?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! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly a month since Emily Giffin&nbsp;made headlines for calling&nbsp;Meghan Markle &#8220;phony&#8221; and &#8220;unmaternal,&#8221; but the author&nbsp;still has another apology to get off her chest.&nbsp; &#8220;I need to be more careful about the impact of my words,&#8221; the Something Borrowed&nbsp;author told AP, via the&nbsp;Huffington Post.&nbsp;&#8220;Being unfiltered, which is what I&#8217;ve chosen to be and [&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-293339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-18 13:08:34","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\/293339","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=293339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}