Days after Brooke Shields criticized Meghan Markle as ‘too precious and serious’ in a podcast, the episode appears to have been removed.
The Blue Lagoon actress, 60, made headlines around the world with her appearance on India Hicks’s An Unexpected Journey podcast, where she touched on their joint appearance at SXSW last March.
However, according to multiple outlets, the episode has seemingly been deleted from the host’s website – and a link to it on her Substack page currently leads to a ‘page not found’.
Speaking to India, who is King Charles’ goddaughter and a patron of the King’s Trust, the star detailed the time she spent with the mom-of-two for the International Women’s Day panel at the annual event, led by Katie Couric.
Reflecting on the talk, Brooke shared that the Duchess of Sussex had told the crowd about writing a letter regarding gender equality at the young age of 11 – an anecdote Katie encouraged her to share.
‘Katie asks the first question to Meghan and she talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women,’ she said last week, via People Magazine.
‘She starts telling a story about how when she was 11 – and she keeps saying, “Well, when I was 11, I saw this commercial and they were talking about how washing dishes was for women”.
‘And she said, “I didn’t think only women wash dishes. It wasn’t fair. So I wrote to the company”.
‘She kept saying she was 11! She wrote to the company, they changed the text, they changed the commercial.
‘It was just too precious, and I was like, they’re not going to want to sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious.’
The former Suits actress has spoken about this multiple times in the past, sharing that she persuaded Procter & Gamble to change their advert after calling out the ‘sexism’ in the footage.
However, recalling the SXSW event, Brooke explained that she felt the need to step in during her fellow panellist’s retelling, in a bid to ‘lighten up’ the proceedings.
She continued: ‘I go, “Excuse me, I’m so sorry, I’ve got to interrupt you there for one minute.’ I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious.
‘[She said], “I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we’re different. When I was 11, I was playing a prostitute.’
Brooke said that, with her cheeky reference to her role in 1978 movie Pretty Baby, the ‘place went insane’ and the panel then became ‘more relaxed’.
It is not clear why the episode was taken down or when – India has not addressed the removal publicly, or shared why it was deleted.
A video from their interview is still visible on her Instagram page, posted on June 1.
Metro has contacted India’s reps for a comment.
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