Meghan Markle slammed as former staff dub her ‘Mean Girls Teen’ and say they needed to seek therapy

Staff who worked for Meghan Markle sought “long-term therapy” and said they could be “thrown to the wolves at any given moment”, bombshell new claims allege.

An excoriating 8000-word cover story in respected Vanity Fair magazine – headlined “American Hustle” – published in the US on Friday night claimed the Duchess of Sussex could be “really, really awful” when things did not go her way.

Citing multiple sources who have worked for the Sussexes since they quit Britain five years ago, the magazine portrayed Prince Harry as a hapless if well-meaning man who came up with “crazy” ideas such as a “sociopath podcast” which would involve him interviewing people such as Russian president Vladimir Putin.

According to Vanity Fair, the duke said: “I have very bad childhood trauma. Obviously. My mother was essentially murdered. What is it about me that didn’t make me one of the bad guys?”

Meghan, 43, is portrayed as a ruthless, demanding boss.

One source said she could not at first believe the bullying claims but, having worked for the duchess, changed her mind saying: “Oh, any given Tuesday this happened.”

“You can be yelled at even if somebody doesn’t raise their voice. [It’s] funny that people don’t differentiate between the energy of being yelled at and literally somebody screaming at you.”

Referring to a film comedy about High School cliques and bullying, some staff dubbed the duchess “a Mean Girls teenager” and called working on Meghan”s Archetypes podcast “really, really awful” and “very painful”.

The source alleged: “Because she”s constantly playing checkers, I’m not even going to say chess, she’s just very aware of where everybody is on her board.

“And when you are not in, you are to be thrown to the wolves at any given moment.”

According to two other sources, a colleague with ties to the podcast took a leave of absence after working on just three episodes and then quit.

Others described “taking extended breaks from work to escape scrutiny, exiting their job, or undergoing long-term therapy after working with Meghan”, who was allegedly dubbed “Duchess Difficult” by some staff.

One stated: “I think if Meghan acknowledged her own shortcomings or personal contributions to situations, rather than staying trapped in a victim narrative, her perception might be better.”

The duchess was accused of bullying staff during her time at Buckingham Palace but the results of an internal inquiry have never been released and she has always vehemently denied the claims.

A resident of Montecito, the California town where the Sussexes live, described the couple as “the most entitled, disingenuous people on the planet”.

They added that while the Sussexes claimed they left England to avoid media scrutiny, they appear to constantly court media attention.

A former worker for the Spotify streaming giant described Prince Harry, 40, as “challenging to engage with”.

They added that while the couple were interviewing someone for a job, Harry gave off an air of “why should I do this?” The Spotify deal ended in 2023.

The Sussexes declined to cooperate with the Vanity Fair piece and have refused to comment on it.