Meghan Markle spoke about the miscarriage she suffered in 2020 on her new podcast.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, brought up her pregnancy loss after guest Reshma Saujani opened up about the challenges she’s faced working on Girls Who Code, her nonprofit that promotes women working in computer science.
“I’ll bring this up if you’re comfortable talking about it because I know you’ve spoken publicly about as you’re doing Girls Who Code, all the interpersonal things that are happening for you at that time and the miscarriages that you’ve experienced,” Markle, 43, said on Tuesday’s episode of “Confessions of a Female Founder.”
“I’ve spoken about the miscarriage that we experienced,” Markle continued. “I think in some parallel way, when you have to learn to detach from the thing that you have so much promise and hope for and to be able to be OK at a certain point to let something go, something go that you plan to love for a long time.”
Saujani, 49, told Markle her remark was “really insightful” and joked that the “Suits” alum was “reading my diaries.”
“I don’t think anyone’s seen it that way, like said it that way for me,” Saujani shared. “But that’s right.”
Markle suffered her miscarriage in July 2020, the year between welcoming son Prince Archie, 5, and daughter Princess Lilibet, 3.
The duchess first revealed the experience in a 1,000-word personal essay published in the New York Times in November 2020.
“Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few,” Markle wrote.
She revealed that she suffered the miscarriage while she and Prince Harry were at their new $14 million mansion in Montecito, California.
“After changing his [Archie’s] diaper, I felt a sharp cramp. I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right,” Markle shared. “I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.”
“Hours later, I lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband’s hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we’d heal,” she added.
At the time of the miscarriage, Markle was suing the Daily Mail for publishing a private letter she penned to her estranged father, Thomas Markle. Harry, 40, blamed the tabloid for Markle’s miscarriage in their 2022 Netflix docuseries.
“I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the Mail did. I watched the whole thing,” the prince said.
After commenting on her miscarriage on her podcast, Markle gushed to Saujani about motherhood.
“I love being a mom. Oh my gosh. I love being a mom so much. It’s my favorite thing,” Markle said.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
