Meghan Markle has once again caused an uproar after claiming her relationship with Harry made people start treating her like a black woman.
The Duchess of Sussex released her second Archetype podcast featuring Mariah Carey just days after meeting with tennis star Serena Williams to speak out about women’s ambitions and throw another punch at the Royal Family in the process.
Titled “The Duality of Diva,” Meghan’s latest podcast sees the pair discussing the glamour, power, and other “complexities surrounding the diva.”
As the 41-year-old mother-of-two revealed, she was inspired by Carey, 53, after seeing the mixed-race singer rise the fame when she was growing up.
“Oh my gosh. Someone who looks like me. She’s mixed like me,” Meghan said as she recalled seeing Carey perform for the first time.
“Because we’re light-skinned, you are not treated as a black woman. You’re not treated as a white woman. You sort of fit in between.”
Meghan went on to claim that her relationship with Harry was the turning point after which people began seeing her as a black woman.
“If there is any time where there was more focus on my race it was when I started dating my husband. Then I started to understand what it was like to be treated like a black woman because up until then I was treated as a mixed woman and things really shifted,” she added.
At the end of the podcast, Meghan also revealed that she was left stunned when Carey referred to her as a diva during their chat.
“It stopped me in my tracks. I started to sweat a little bit. I started squirming in my chair in this quiet revolt. ‘Why would you say that?’ My mind genuinely was just spinning with what nonsense she must have read or clicked on to make her say that,” the duchess said.
“She meant diva as a compliment. But I heard it as a dig. I heard it as the word diva, as I think of it. But, in that moment, as she explained to me, she meant it as chic, as aspirational. And how one very charged word can mean something different for each of us, it’s mind-blowing to me.”
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