Meghan Markle makes surprise appearance on Ellen
Meghan Markle has sat down for another US television interview, this time with her friend Ellen DeGeneres.
Meghan Markle has made a surprise appearance on the Ellen show in the former actress’ first major TV interview since her notorious Oprah tell-all alongside Prince Harry as royal insiders fear she may be about to drop more bombshells about the Firm.
In a video released ahead of the show’s airing in the US on Thursday local time, an exuberant Duchess of Sussex speaks about baby Lilibet teething.
DeGeneres reveals that “Lili’s now teething” before the clip cuts to Meghan with her hands up by her mouth and saying, “Anything to relieve that.”
“Tequila, anything,” the talk show host quips.
“That’s Aunty Ellen for you,” Meghan says with a smile.
“That’s why I don’t have kids,” retorts DeGeneres.
In another video posted by the Ellen show, Meghan also remembered her years as a struggling actress who would arrive at auditions in an old car that she says was falling apart.
The surprise appearance – which comes almost a year after her bombshell Oprah interview – saw Meghan reminisce about her acting life before meeting Prince Harry.
The former Suits star laughed as she recalled how she would go to auditions on the same Warner Bros lot where Ellen’s set is situated.
A lot has changed since the last time Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, was on the Warner Brothers lot. Don’t miss the rest of our interview tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/pBihJLf0um
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) November 17, 2021
And Meghan laughed as she recalled how she used to climb through the boot of her old car to get to the front – because you couldn’t access it from the driver’s door.
“At a certain point the key stopped working on the driver’s side, so you couldn’t get yourself in through the door,” she explained.
“After auditions I would park at the back of the parking lot and I would open the trunk and climb in, then pull it shut behind me and crawl over all my seats to get out. That’s how I would come to and fro.
“I would park at Gate 3 and scoot on over, and what was so nice was that the security guards here would always say, ‘Break a leg, we hope you get it!’ So the drive in today was very different,” she told the talk show host.
Asked if the security guards recognised her, Meghan said: “I think they probably said it to everybody. That’s how nice they were.”
The sit down chat marks Meghan’s first daytime talk show appearance since she married Prince Harry and joined the royal family.
It comes after she and Prince Harry rocked the Firm with their explosive Oprah Winfrey interview and aired their struggles as working royals on TV.
Meghan told how she felt suicidal in her role and said a senior royal had questioned how dark her unborn son’s skin would be.
The pair stepped back from their royal duties last year and set up their new lives in the US.
It’s now believed they will spend Christmas at their $20 million mansion in California this year – suggesting they won’t spend it with the Queen.
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