Piers Morgan responded to Sharon Osbourne’s departure from “The Talk” in a detailed account of his own dramatic departure from “Good Morning Britain” – defending their controversial comments about Meghan Markle as “free speech”.
“What has happened to Sharon and me over the past two weeks is not really about Ms. Markle,” he wrote in a column for the Mail on Sunday, saying that Markle took advantage of “awake worldview” and “abolishing culture”. in her bombshell interview.
“It’s a much bigger problem than a delusional duchess, and that’s everyone’s right to be free to express our heartfelt opinions, forcefully and passionately when we feel like it,” he wrote.
Osbourne quit “The Talk” on Friday, two weeks after she got into an on-air feud with her co-hosts while defending Morgan’s tirade on GMB, in which he quashed Markle’s interview.
“I feel like I’m about to be put in an electric chair because I have a friend who a lot of people think is a racist, so that makes me a racist,” said Osbourne, her co-hosts. urging her to tell her “what he is. said that’s racist.”
Morgan also tweeted about the controversy on Saturday, posting a photo of herself with Osbourne.
‘What happened@Marijkegrootis an absolute shame that puts CBS to shame. Bullied out of her job for defending me against a made-up slur of racism because I don’t believe a liar. In tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday I am telling MY truth about these culture bulls awakened * t, ” He wrote.