‘This woman was abused. And so was he’: Tyler Perry accuses the palace of mistreating Meghan and Harry like a ‘batterer’ and compares it to watching his own mother being abused as he explains why he invited them to stay at his $18M LA mansion
- Tyler Perry accused Buckingham Palace of abusing Meghan and Prince Harry
- Episode 4: Meghan says she was ‘organism’ the royal family couldn’t ‘adjust to’
- Episode 5: Duchess ‘says she did everything to be part of the royal family’
- Episode 6: Viewers see Harry’s gleeful video revealing his family is ‘leaving’
- Harry and Meghan’s Netflix series LIVE: Follow for latest Royal news and updates
Tyler Perry has accused Buckingham Palace of abusing Meghan Markle and Prince Harry and compared it to watching his mother suffer domestic violence.
The billionaire claimed the Royal Family cutting off the Sussexes’ money and ending their security was ‘all the things a batterer would do’.
The actor, 53, argued he ‘knew the symptoms’ of coercive control and abuse after watching his late mom Maxine being abused by his alcoholic father Emmitt.
His comments came in the explosive final episode of Harry and Meghan’s Netflix documentary, which reignited their attacks on their own family and the Press.
The pair repeatedly lashed out at Prince William, King Charles and aimed a broadside at the Queen, who passed away in September after a lifetime of service.
Tyler Perry has accused Buckingham Palace of abusing Meghan Markle and Prince Harry like a ‘batterer’ and compared the abuse they faced to watching his mother suffer domestic violence
Perry and his mother Maxine (pictured together in 2006) were abused by his alcoholic father Emmitt Perry, who once beat the now actor so severely as a child that the skin was ripped off his back with a vacuum cord
Perry’s father Emmitt is pictured during an interview. His son aired his story again during the Netflix documentary
Tyler offering his home (seen) to the pair ‘became, in many ways, the reason that Meghan and Harry started their new life in Southern California’
Referring to Meghan and Harry, Perry said: ‘She was abused. And so was he. I knew the symptoms, I saw it. I saw my mother being abused for years.’
Perry and his mother Maxine were abused by his alcoholic father Emmitt Perry, who he has previously revealed once beat him so severely as a child with a vacuum cleaner cord that his skin ripped off his back.
Poll
Do YOU agree with Tyler Perry?
Do YOU agree with Tyler Perry?
Now share your opinion
Referring to how the palace behaved, he added: ‘To use the institution to try and do all the things a batterer would do, like ‘here’s what we’re going to do, we are going to cut off the money, not leave you with security, we’re gonna do all those things to make you comply and come back.’
‘And for the both of them to have the wherewithal to say ‘I don’t give a damn if it’s the palace, I’m out of here’, I applauded that.’
Perry revealed he had reached out to Meghan just before her wedding day to offer her support. It was not until two years after Meghan’s marriage to Harry that she called Perry again to tell him she was ‘afraid’.
Perry revealed after this phone call, he offered up his $18million Beverly Hills home to the couple to use as their personal residence after they quit the monarchy.
The eight-bedroom Tuscan-style villa, which Perry purchased in 2004 for $4.3million, sits on 22 acres of land and comes with 24,000-square-feet of living space.
Harry and Meghan’s final Netflix episodes cover their wedding, leaving the UK and building a new life in the US
Harry and Meghan said that the royals were upset they were ‘better’ at the job, accusing the palace of briefing against them
Meghan Markle hinted that the royals initially baulked at her because she was different from them and then became jealous of her popularity
Britain’s King Charles III reacts as he speaks with volunteers and members of staff as he has a cup of tea during a visit of Londons Community Kitchen facilities, in Harrow this afternoon. Both Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace have refused to comment on the Netflix series
Harry’s all out war on William and Charles: Click here to read more
Speaking about the couple’s situation when they were temporarily living in Vancouver Island, Perry said: ‘They just wanted to be free. They wanted to be free to love and be happy. They did not have a plan… There was no plan.’
Perry went on to say Meghan had called him crying and told him she was ‘afraid’.
‘I could hear the fear. It was palpable. I could hear it,’ Perry said. ‘So I asked her, what was she afraid of. And she took a deep breath and then she started listing the things that she was afraid of.’
‘And I said to her ‘every one of your fears are valid’.’
During the documentary, Perry said the most he knew about the Royal Family was around Princess Diana’s death and claimed he saw her being ‘thrown to the wolves’ after her marriage ended.
He said: ‘So to tell Meghan that her feelings were valid hurt. I didn’t want to say that to her. I didn’t want her to feel that but I didn’t want to lie to her.
‘She was afraid of them destroying her or going crazy or them making her think she was going crazy.’
Meghan told the program Perry said his mansion in Beverley Hills was safe and he would make sure they had security.
Meghan said she told him they would only stay for a week, adding: ‘He’s like ‘You’re not going to stay for a week. You’re going to stay for as long as as you need, and I’m going to get you there safely, and I’m going to keep you there safely until you have somewhere to go’.’
And while it was certainly generous of Tyler – who has a reported net worth of $1 billion – to provide the royals with a place to stay, he was definitely not left with nowhere to go, thanks to the fact that he owns many other properties.
Perry revealed that he offered up his $18 million Beverly Hills home to the couple (pictured together at the mansion) to use as their personal residence after they quit the monarchy because Meghan had called him to tell him she was ‘afraid’
Perry (pictured in October in Hollywood) has used his wealth to help people in the past. In 2019 he stepped in to help four children whose mother was killed after her boyfriend allegedly shot her outside of a bank in Georgia
The couple, along with their then-one-year-old son, Archie, spent a few months living in Tyler’s Beverly Hills mansion (pictured) – before they purchased their own $14 million estate
The eight bedroom Tuscan-style villa, which Tyler purchased in 2004 for $4.3 million, sits on 22 acres of land and comes with 24,000-square-feet of living space
His impressive real estate portfolio includes a $100million, 40,000-square-foot, eight-bedroom, 12-bathroom mansion in Atlanta, Georgia, and a log cabin in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
He also owns a 25-acre private island and an adjacent seven-acre island in the Bahamas, where he had a villa and a series of bungalows built from scratch.
After Meghan and Harry purchased their own house, a sprawling mansion in Montecito that is located just a stone’s throw from the home of another celebrity pal, Oprah, Tyler sent them a generous housewarming gift – a grand piano – with a note that read, ‘Write the soundtrack for your life.’
Perry has used his wealth to help those in need in the past. In 2019, he stepped in to help four children whose mother was killed after her boyfriend allegedly shot her outside of a bank in Georgia.
Tynesha Evans was shot dead in the parking lot of a Wells Fargo near Atlanta. Her boyfriend, Othniel Inniss, 58, was arrested at the scene.
Less than a day after the tragedy struck the Evans family, Perry stepped in to lend his support.
After learning about the heartbreaking news, Perry offered to take care of the family’s rent to stave off eviction.
Perry arranged for Evans’ body to be flown to Wisconsin, where family and friends will hold her funeral.
The actor and filmmaker will also covering her 18-year-old daughter’s tuition at Spelman College so she doesn’t have to drop out of school.
In April 2020, Perry also paid for the groceries of elderly shoppers at 44 Kroger stores in Atlanta and 29 Winn Dixie stores in his native New Orleans.
And in August 2020 donated a van to an Atlanta Women’s Organization that provides hygiene products to people experiencing homelessness.
Perry also offered to pay for the funeral of Rayshard Brooks, as well as for Brooks’ four kids’ college education.
Perry (pictured in a photo as a five-year-old child) said that he was raped by male and female family acquaintances three times by the age of 10
‘I don’t think I ever felt safe or protected as a child,’ Perry said. Pictured: Perry as a child
The key claims made in Harry and Meghan’s final three Netflix episodes
Here are the key points and revelations from Harry & Meghan:
Episode four
– Meghan said it was ‘really important’ for the King to walk her down the aisle at her wedding to Harry.
– Duchess recalled thinking about taking her own life, saying: ‘It was like, ‘All of this will stop if I am not here’.’
– Harry said it was ‘heartbreaking’ to see his brother’s communications office ‘copy’ the behaviour of their father’s by ‘trading’ stories with the press.
Episode five
– Meghan broke down in tears as she described receiving death threats online.
– Harry said it was his decision to step back as a working royal, not his wife’s.
– Harry claimed the timing of a meeting with senior royals at Sandringham about the couple’s future was deliberately arranged so Meghan could not attend. Harry said his brother began to ‘scream and shout’ at him during their meeting about moving abroad.
– Harry said he wrote to his father in January 2020 to say that he and his wife would be willing to relinquish their titles if the couple’s plan to move to Canada as working royals did not work out.
– The Duke and Duchess of Sussex claimed the institution ‘blocked’ Harry from seeing his grandmother, the Queen, after they decided to step back as senior royals.
Episode six
– Home video footage appeared to show the couple watching their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey before kissing.
– They claim they saw the interview differently to the world. Tyler Perry claimed they could have said much more.
– Other footage featured Harry holding up his phone to show Meghan a text from William and her reaction is to say ‘wow’ as she looks at its screen.
Perry, who states he was once ‘poor as hell’ and homeless, dropped out of high school and struggled as a playwright before his career catapulted him to stardom, becoming the first African American to independently own a studio.
Perry said he ‘had no mentors’ on his way to the top, and has learned on the fly, suffering an upbringing with an abusive man who he later learned was not his father.
He has previously said that creating was his ‘escape’ from the hardships at home.
‘No matter what was happening to me, be it sexual abuse, whatever, I could escape and be somewhere else,’ Perry said in 2019.
‘I could create these worlds and be there for hours. I didn’t realize at the time, but that’s where my gift to write came from – the heartache and the hell.’
The movie mogul was one of four children raised by mom Maxine, a preschool teacher, and husband Emmitt, who worked as a construction contractor.
‘I don’t think I ever felt safe or protected as a child,’ Tyler said of his childhood in New Orleans, Louisiana.
‘The weekends were when the hell would start,’ he said. ‘I never felt that I was loved by him. I don’t know if he knows what love is. Never felt respected by him. Never felt like a person to him.’
On one occasion, his mother tried to escape the abuse and packed the kids into the car, only for Emmitt to report the car stolen and police tracked the family down to return home.
‘He had a job and was a provider,’ Perry said of the difficulties surrounding his mother leaving his father. ‘I knew she wanted to protect me, but there was always hostility.’
Perry found out at the age of 41 that Emmitt was not his biological father, but still supports the man financially despite no personal relationship and eventually forgave him for wrongdoings: ‘Holding on was hurting me more than him.’
In addition to trouble within his immediate family, Tyler was ‘sexually abused’ by three different men and a woman by the age of 10.
‘It was rape,’ he said. ‘I didn’t know what was going on or the far-reaching effects of it. I just moved through it. ‘Boys don’t cry, shut up and move on.’ Holding on to all of that, not knowing what to do with it, there was a lot of anger in my teenage years, in my 20s.’
After dropping out of school, he first worked at the Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans, where he would sneak into the annual National Association of Television Program Executives conference.
He later began to write scripts as he sold cars and worked as a bill collector.
His first steps onto the stage came when he saved $12,000 to rent a community theater space and produce the play ‘Know I’ve Been Changed’, a story of child-abuse survivors.
It was at this point Perry was forced to live in his car for three months, as he worked on everything from the lights to selling snacks in intermission to begin generating enough cash again to be able to afford rent.
Despite the tragedies of his childhood, Tyler rose above the trauma to become a heavy-hitter in Hollywood having earned more than $500million alone for films on his most famous character to date — Madea, which drew the attention of Oprah Winfrey.
The popular character was inspired by his late mother Maxine and his aunt Mayola, and helped Perry set the pace to create a 330-acre movie studio just minutes outside of downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
‘She’d be very, very proud,’ he said. ‘She’d say, ‘Who’d have thunk it?’ That was her thing. ‘Who’d have thunk you could have made all of this.”
Meanwhile the latest episodes of Harry and Meghan’s documentary continued to reign accusations down on the Royal Family and UK media.
King Charles and Prince William both refused to comment on the claims made by the pair.
Meghan said she asked Charles to walk her down the aisle after she told him she had lost her father – a nod to her estrangement from Thomas Markle
The final episode of Harry and Meghan’s Netflix series opens with a gleeful video selfie in which the Duke of Sussex says: ‘We are on the freedom flight’. Episode six of the bombshell series begins with the couple on their flight from Canada to Los Angeles in March 2020, after they split from the royal family
Another clip also shows Meghan with their son Archie on the private plane
The Sussexes have used their latest Netflix shows to wound William and Charles and claim dark forces blocked the Queen from seeing them before Megxit.
Harry also said his family were upset and jealous of Meghan’s popularity so pursued a vendetta against her because she was ‘doing the job better’ and ‘stealing the limelight’ from ‘those born to do it’.
But today, despite the slew of incendiary claims in three hours of new interviews and footage, Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace declined to comment on anything in the series.
Harry told of the ‘heartbreaking’ rift with his brother who he claimed had scared him in January 2020 while he ‘screamed and shouted’ at him in front of his father and grandmother when he tried to thrash out a deal to leave the UK.
The Duke of Sussex said: ‘They were happy to lie to protect my brother and yet they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us’.
The Duke of Sussex said William and Charles refused to bless the couple’s request for a ‘half in half out’ Megxit that would allow them to earn a fortune while picking and choosing royal duties and keeping all their titles.
He alleged his older brother, now heir to the throne, scared him in January 2020 while he ‘screamed and shouted’ at him in front of his father and grandmother when he tried to thrash out a deal to leave the UK.
Meghan and Harry laughed about cutting their wedding cake with a sword
The couple kiss in front of well-wishers at their wedding reception in 2018
The Duke of Sussex has accused his brother, both pictured during an unveiling of a statue to their mother Diana, of screaming at him while discussing Megxit. Harry also spoke about their heartbreaking rift
Harry also accused Charles of telling untruths to his face and Her Majesty of saying nothing at the now infamous ‘Sandringham Summit’.
He said: ‘It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren’t true. And my grandmother, you know, quietly sit there and take it all in.’
The Duke of Sussex claimed: ‘I went in with the same proposal that we’d already made publicly, but once I got there I was given five options – one being all in, no change, five being all out. I chose option three in the meeting – half in, half out. Have our own jobs but also work in support of the Queen. It became very clear very quickly that goal was not up for discussion or debate’.
Harry then claimed the Palace did not seek his permission to put out a joint statement denying claims William ‘bullied’ the Sussexes out of the Royal Family. Viewers said that Harry was implying that William did. He said: ‘I couldn’t believe it. No one had asked me permission to put my name to a statement like that… [Meghan] burst into floods of tears, because within four hours they were happy to lie to protect my brother… and yet they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us.’
He also denied it was Meghan’s decision to walk away and move to LA. ‘In fact, it was my decision. She never asked to leave. I was the one that had to see it for myself. But it’s misogyny at its best,’ he said.
Today’s final three episodes of the docu-series will particularly infuriate and upset William, who was accused of leaving his younger brother ‘terrified’ after allegedly yelling at him in front of the Queen and Charles during final Megxit talks at Sandringham in 2020.
Prince Harry and Meghan reveal Oprah was stunned by the ‘small’ size of their Kensington Palace cottage when she ‘went round for tea’ – and told them ‘no one would ever believe’ they were living there
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have revealed that they invited Oprah Winfrey to join them for tea at their cottage at Kensington Palace – and the TV mogul was left stunned by the ‘small’ size of the residence.
Speaking in episode five of their bombshell Netflix docuseries, the Sussexes opened up about their life at Nottingham Cottage, where they lived in the months after their May 2018 wedding – insisting that while the home was ‘on palace grounds,’ they were by no means ‘living in a palace’ as many assumed.
According to Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, their feelings about the ‘small’ home were cemented when Oprah, 68, joined them ‘for tea’ – with the Duke revealing that the TV host exclaimed: ‘No one would believe it!’ when she saw the property herself.
‘Oprah came over for tea, didn’t she?’ Harry recalled, with his wife responding: ‘She did.’
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle opened up about their life at their ‘small’ Kensington Palace cottage in the latest episodes of the Netflix series today
The pair revealed that Oprah (seen in a 2012 interview with Simon Cowell) ‘came round for tea’ while they were living at Nottingham Cottage
According to Harry, Oprah (seen during the couple’s bombshell 2021 interview with her) was stunned by the size of the cottage, telling the pair: ‘No one would ever believe it!’
Harry continued: ‘And when she came in, she sat down, and she said, ‘No one would ever believe it!” before Meghan echoed Oprah’s statement: ‘No one would ever believe it.’
Their anecdote about Oprah came after the couple shared several candid images and videos from their time at Nottingham Cottage – which was referred to as ‘Nott Cott’ on a sign posted on the refrigerator in the property – while also opening up about what life was like while they were living there.
‘As far as people were concerned we were living in a palace. And we were… in a cottage on palace grounds,’ Harry says.
Meghan then chimes in: ‘Kensington Palace sounds very regal, of course it does, it says ‘palace’ in the name. But Nottingham Cottage was so small.’
She adds: ‘[Harry] would just hit his head constantly in that place because he’s so tall.’
‘The whole thing is on a slight lean, [with] really low ceilings,’ Harry explains. ‘So I don’t know who was there before but they must have been very short.’
The couple did not reveal when exactly their tea with Oprah took place, but it’s thought it was shortly after their May 2018 wedding, which the TV mogul attended (pictured)
After the pair tied the knot, they spent months living at Nottingham Cottage, which Meghan described as ‘small’, with both adding that it wasn’t a palace, but rather ‘on palace grounds’
‘The whole thing is on a slight lean, [with] really low ceilings,’ Harry explains. ‘So I don’t know who was there before but they must have been very short’
Life at Nottingham Cottage: Meghan dances in the doorway of love nest as the couple share behind-the-scenes glimpse of homely moments
Meghan and Harry gave fans a sneak peek into their life at Kensington Palace before moving to Windsor, in the latest instalment of their Netflix show.
According to Meghan, the couple’s lives inside the Kensington Palace grounds were unlike anything ‘anyone would believe’, with the couple sharing images of themselves doing DIY projects and gardening.
‘Me with a hoe and H varnishing,’ Meghan says. ‘It was just a chapter in our lives where I don’t think anyone could believe what it was actually like behind the scenes.’
Although the pair did not specify when their tea with Oprah took place, it was suggested that the Sussexes hosted the media mogul not long after their May 2018 wedding – almost three years before they sat down with her for a bombshell TV interview in March 2021.
The couple briefly addressed the interview in the docuseries, with Meghan revealing that they did not watch the primetime sit down before it aired to the world.
‘We didn’t see it until the world saw it. It was interesting,’ she says, while footage of the couple watching the interview on a couch was played.
The mother-of-two also voiced her surprise that the main ‘take away’ from their chat with Oprah was the royal racism allegations, rather than her mental health struggles.
‘I thought me being very open about the depression I experienced and just how extreme that became, I thought that would be the biggest take away but it was entirely eclipsed by the conversation surrounding race,’ she said.
The final episode of the series also reveals the moment Prince Harry shared a text from his brother Prince William with his wife amid the fallout from their ‘truth bomb’ interview with Oprah.
During the latest episodes of their Netflix doc, the couple shared several candid images and videos of their time at Nottingham Cottage, including this snap of Harry with their dog, Guy
According to Meghan (seen dancing in a candid video taken by Harry at the cottage), the couple’s lives inside Kensington Palace grounds were unlike anything ‘anyone would believe’
In footage filmed in the days after the bombshell discussion with Oprah, Harry is seen showing his wife his phone, before Meghan says: ‘Wow, H just got a text from his brother.’
While the couple did not share what was in the text, Meghan did share the contents of a message she received from Beyonce in the wake of the interview.
‘Beyonce just texted. I still cant believe she knows who I am,’ she says after receiving the message.
Harry then quipped: ‘Just checking in just casual. Go call her.’
Meghan replied: ‘No it’s ok, she said that she wants me to feel safe and protected, she admires and respects my bravery and she thinks I was selected to break generational curses that need to be healed.’ Harry replied: ‘That’s well said.’
Source: Read Full Article