{"id":6713,"date":"2025-02-06T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:38:32","slug":"meghan-markle-receives-brutal-backlash-for-new-video-about-los-angeles-fires-lets-unpick-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/2025\/02\/06\/meghan-markle-receives-brutal-backlash-for-new-video-about-los-angeles-fires-lets-unpick-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle receives brutal backlash for new video about Los Angeles fires – let’s unpick it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-post-title” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Black Han Sans|700||on|||||” header_text_align=”center” header_font_size=”46px” header_letter_spacing=”4px” custom_margin=”25px||5px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||true|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]

Meghan Markle’s Latest Video Is Sparking Backlash and we need to talk about it<\/span><\/h1>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”intro-wrap” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|600|on||||||” text_text_color=”#808080″ text_font_size=”16px” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Meghan and Harry have been helping those affected by the devestating blaze…<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Words by Alice Hall\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/02\/imago305399905.jpg” alt=”Meghan Markle” title_text=”September 22, 2023, Santa Barbara, California, U.S: Prince Harry and Princess Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sus” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]

It’s been almost a month since\u00a0devastating wildfires swept Los Angeles, forcing almost 180,000 people to evacuate their homes. The original blaze, which broke out in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood, has been described as the most destructive fire in the city’s history.<\/p>\n

In the weeks since, Meghan Markle, who lives down the coast from LA in Montecito, has been visiting those affected by the fires. Recently, she took to Instagram with a teary video outlining how she helped one of the young victims. In the video, Meghan explained she reached out to a mother and her 15-year-old daughter whose home was ‘left in ashes’ by the blaze. Among the items destroyed was a Billie Eilish T-Shirt, which had been left in the washing machine.<\/p>\n

‘All that she\u2019d been looking for in her home was the T-shirt from the Billie Eilish concert she\u2019d just gone to. And of course, they now see their home and the washing machine, their dryer, are ash. They\u2019re not there anymore,’ she said. ‘I said, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t know, Billie Eilish but I\u2019m going to figure out how to get you this shirt.”‘
Meghan went on to explain how she reached out to everyone she knew to get the message directly to Billie. Later, Meghan reveals that Billie had signed a box full of merch for the teenage girl.<\/p>\n

\u2018You guys, I don\u2019t even know what all this stuff means but it\u2019s signed for her,’ Meghan said as she showed the unique merch designs to the camera. Holding up a blue lunchbox with a gold star drawn on the front, she asked, ‘Is that a thing?’ After joking that she felt ‘really old,’ Meghan sent a ‘huge thank you [to] Billie Eilish.’
‘This is going to mean so much to her,’ she said, before thanking Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and his wife Behati Prinsloo for their help in getting ‘this over the line.’<\/p>\n

She added: ‘To everyone who is showing up for people in big and small ways to get through what\u2019s happened in California.\u00a0Just thank you so much. I\u2019m going to go and email her mom now. Just wanted to share that with you guys.’<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”]

she ‘made a wildfire survivors day’\u00a0<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

However, the video has predictably attracted unfair backlash from people online. Some social media users have taken to X to suggest the video is ‘all about herself’ and that it’s ‘tone-deaf.’ ‘Meghan Markle made a whole IG post just to brag about sending a voice note to get a Billie Eilish T-shirt for 15 yrs old girl\u2014like she just solved world hunger. Imagine if she donated $5 million like other celebrities; she\u2019d probably demand a global holiday in her honor. The desperation is unreal,’ wrote one user on X. Others were more generous, pointing out how she ‘made a wildfires survivor’s day.’<\/p>\n

This comes just two weeks after Meghan and Harry were criticised for using the wildfire crisis as a photo opportunity after they were pictured helping out at a food distribution centre for victims of the fires. It\u2019s believed that they also donated money via their Archewell Foundation, as well as other essential supplies. The city\u2019s mayor, Victor Gordo, praised them, saying, \u2018This is their second visit today. We were here earlier today, and they were serving food, anonymously. No one knew they were serving food, with masks on. They didn\u2019t come out here for publicity. They came out here to work.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

But nonetheless, their support riled the anti-Meghan brigade and they were branded ‘disaster tourists\u2019 and ‘opportunistic.’ What, then, could they possibly have done? If they’d stayed silent while a disaster affected innocent people practically on their doorstep, they would have been lambasted for turning a blind eye. If they had donated without making an appearance at all they would have been accused of hiding away in their mansion, afraid to get their hands dirty.<\/p>\n

This is just another way that Meghan can’t do anything right in her critics’ eyes, with her charitable endeavours becoming just another prong of attack. Even if this latest video was a response to the previous attacks, is she not allowed to send a message to show she does really care? She still went to the effort of tracking down the T-shirt, which she didn’t have to do. If some construe the video as a humblebrag about how well-connected she is this seems far-fetched – it’s not exactly like she needs to remind us she’s a big deal – she’s married to Prince Harry; they’re as A-list is it comes. And it’s better she uses her connections to help people.<\/p>\n

A source at the time said ‘Meghan and Harry are stunned and appalled at the criticism they\u2019ve endured over all this. It confirms what they already knew to a big extent, that they can\u2019t win, no matter what they do,’ continuing ‘Their haters will always be out in force, finding any way possible to tear them down. For Meghan, especially, it cuts extremely deep and touches a major nerve. This is her home city burning to the ground, she wants to help.’<\/p>\n

All this comes just a couple of weeks after Meghan delayed the release of her new Netflix show,\u00a0With Love, Meghan, due to the wildfires.\u00a0The show will now air on March 4, two months after its original premiere date.\u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]

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