MEGHAN Markle has defended telling Oprah Winfrey she was an only child – insisting the comments only reflected how she felt growing up.
The Duchess of Sussex suggested to Oprah she grew up an only child, telling the chat show queen in her bombshell interview last year: "I would have loved to have had siblings".
The comment is one of the reasons her half sister Samantha Markle – who shares Meghan's dad Thomas Markle – is suing her for defamation, accusing the duchess of concocting a “false narrative and fairy-tale life story”.
But Meg's lawyers say the account was not meant to be “objective fact" as it was "a textbook example of a subjective statement about how a person feels about her childhood,” The Telegraph reports.
In legal papers submitted to a court in Florida, the Duchess’ legal team wrote: “Plaintiff [Samantha] first asserts that she can disprove that Meghan grew up as an only child.
“But this perception is inherently unfalsifiable.
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"It is hard to imagine a more personal and subjective feeling than how one views their own childhood."
They added: “Moreover, Plaintiff’s opposition completely ignores the context of the statement, where Ms Winfrey asked Meghan about her ‘relationship’ with Plaintiff (to whom Ms Winfrey referred as her ‘half-sister on her father’s side’).
“Meghan’s response to that question that she ‘grew up as an only child’ was obviously not meant to be a statement of objective fact that she had no genetic siblings or half-siblings.
“Rather, it was a textbook example of a subjective statement about how a person feels about her childhood.”
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Samantha, 57, is seeking $75,000 (£57,000) in damages over the Oprah interview and Finding Freedom biography released the year before.
She alleges she is the victim of false and malicious statements which humiliated her in front of the world.
The Duchess’s team has previously asked for the lawsuit to be dismissed.
And in the latest submission to the court, they argue Meghan also cannot be sued over Finding Freedom because she did not write it.
Despite Ms Markle attempting to argue that the Duchess made statements in the book via a third party, Meg's lawyers said: “Meghan did not make the statements; she cannot be liable for them.
“It is that simple.”
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In March, attorney Michael Kump, of the Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley law firm, said of the case: “This baseless and absurd lawsuit is just a continuation of a pattern of disturbing behaviour.
"We will give it the minimum attention necessary, which is all it deserves.”
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