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Brooke Shields Interview Digging at Meghan Markle Quietly Removed Online

The podcast episode featuring Shields was published last week.

A podcast interview featuring Brooke Shields subtly criticizing Meghan Markle was seemingly deleted a week after it was published. The actress joined designer India Hicks—notably King Charles’ goddaughter—for an episode of her podcast last week where she discussed an encounter with Markle at the SXSW festival in 2024. At the time, the two participated in an International Women’s Day panel, where Markle recalled once writing a letter to a manufacturing company at 11-years-old after they aired a sexist commercial. Shields told Hicks that Markle’s story was too “precious” and “serious” for the SXSW audience, and recalled interjecting during the moment to lighten the mood. “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,” Shields said. The actress then interrupted Markle to make a joke about starring in 1978’s Pretty Baby where she played a prostitute at 11-years-old. “I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious,” Shields said. Several reports have indicated that the episode is no longer available on Hicks’ Substack, and a link to it currently leads to a “page not found” message.