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Melissa McCarthy Doesn’t Understand How ‘Wonderful’ Meghan Markle Gets Hate
Melissa McCarthy defended her ‘inspiring, amazing’ friend Meghan Markle against ‘people throwing the hate’
Melissa McCarthy, Meghan Markle.Getty Images (2)The actress, 53, defended the Duchess of Sussex, 42, against those who feel “threatened” by her, saying she doesn’t understand how someone so “awesome” and “inspiring” can receive such hate. “It’s really interesting as I can reflect on it — I keep my distance from it right now just for my own wellbeing — but the bulk of the bullying and abuse that I was experiencing on social media and online was when I was pregnant with Archie and Lili, and with a newborn with each of them,” Markle explained during the Opening Day Keynote Panel at SXSW in March. The sites, she said, incentivize people “to create pages where they can churn out very, very inciting comments and conspiracy theories that can have a tremendously negative effect on someone’s mental health, on their physical safety.”
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