Meghan Markle has opened up about online trolling and online bullying that can occur on social media.
Alongside her husband Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined the hosts of a podcast Teenager Therapy – a podcast hosted by five high school friends based in California from different backgrounds with an aim to help others.
The couple appeared on the podcast to discuss mental health issues, to mark World Mental Health Day on Saturday, October 10.
While Meghan, 38, admitted social media was a “great way to connect” she also pointed out it can cause ” a lot of disconnection”.
“I can speak personally too, I’m told that in 2019 I was the most trolled person in the entire world, male or female,” she explained.
The Duchess of Sussex also discussed how difficult it was having just given birth to her first child Archie Mountbatten-Windsor and experiencing such a huge level of online hate.
“Now, eight months of that I wasn’t even visible — I was on maternity leave or with a baby,” she said. “But what was able to be manufactured and churned out, it’s almost unsurvivable.”
The former actress also emphasised no matter what age you are, experiencing such a level of hate and things being said about an individual that aren’t true can series consequences on mental health.
“I don’t care if you’re 15 or you’re 25, if people are saying things about you that aren’t true, what that does to your mental and emotional health is so damaging,” she said.
In October last year, Meghan opened up about the hate she received from the media and on social media in an ITV documentary .
“I never thought that this would be easy, but I thought it would be fair and that’s the part that’s really hard to reconcile,” she admitted.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down from public royal life earlier this year, leaving the UK and relocating to Canada initially and then to California.
