Piers Morgan – who in his latest series of attacks on Meghan Markle on Monday rejected her accusations of racist treatment by the British Royal Family – stormed off the set of his own show ‘Good Morning Britain’ on Tuesday. after being summoned by colleague Alex Beresford for his unwavering criticism of the Duchess of Sussex.
“OK. I’m done. Sorry. No, sorry. You can be kidding me, mate, but not on my own show,” Morgan said as he walked away.
Beresford, commenting on the bombshell revelations from Markle and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey and criticizing Morgan’s subsequent attacks on the pair, had noted how the pair had dealt with “an overwhelming amount of negative press in recent years.” which had been “incredibly harmful”. For their mental health.
“I hear Piers say that William has gone through the same thing but you know what, siblings are experiencing a tragedy in their lives and one gets all right and sweeps it away and the other can’t handle it so strongly and that’s clear what happened to Prince Harry in this situation, ”said the” GMB “weather forecaster.
He walked behind his mother’s coffin in front of the globe at a tender, young age. That will shape a young boy for the rest of his life, ”Beresford continued. “So I think we should all take a step back.”
Beresford then turned to Morgan:
“I understand you don’t like Meghan Markle. You have made that clear a number of times in this program. A few times. And I understand that you have or have had a personal relationship with Meghan Markle and she cut you off. She has the right to shut you down if she wants to. Has she said anything about you since she cut you off? I don’t think she did, but you keep screwing her up anyway. ‘
At that moment Morgan got up and walked away.
Beresford said it was “pathetic.”
“This is absolutely devilish behavior,” he continued. ‘I’m sorry, but Piers sprays regularly and we all have to listen. Yesterday from 6.30am to 7am was incredibly hard to watch, incredibly hard to watch. “
The show came to a halt. Morgan later returned and told Beresford that they should “talk to each other in a civilized way as we work on the same show on the same team.”
“Starting a rather personally derogatory monologue about one of your colleagues is probably not one of the best ways to go about it,” added Morgan. “As much as I would like to spend hours abusing you here, that will not happen.”
“I’m not trying to come to this show and take you down, take you apart,” replied Beresford. “Just because we’re on the same side doesn’t mean we should have the same opinion.”
“This whole situation is very personal to me and I am not accusing you of racism in any way,” he added. “I have the luxury of knowing you on and off screen and we’ve had conversations, I know where you stand and I have a lot of respect for you, Piers.”
“I’m tired of trying to find another way of explaining, not to you, but to so many people, why what has been said is so wrong,” Beresford added later. “I’ve walked into institutions as the only person of color and experienced covert and overt racism so many times and why the Meghan interview really resonates with me is because an ex-work colleague – not on this show – asked me if I was. concerned about the shade of cocoa my son would come out. So I fully understand the pain behind that. ”
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