Jessica Mulroney Regrets Bond with Meghan Markle After High-Profile Fallout
Avery Sinclair here, offering a reality check on the latest celebrity shake-up. Another day, another disappointment in the royal soap opera universe.
Jessica Mulroney, once crowned the Duchess of Sussex’s ride-or-die confidante, now admits she regrets ever cozying up to Meghan Markle. According to insiders who spoke with the Daily Mail and relayed to the New York Post, the 45-year-old stylist would gladly rewind to pre-2018, before Meghan and Prince Harry’s wedding catapulted her into the royal limelight.
Mulroney and Prince Harry’s bride first became fast friends around 2011, sharing latte dates in Toronto and mutual style tips on set of the hit TV drama Suits. When Meghan said “I do” in May 2018, Jessica scored a plum spot at the altar as her daughter, Ivy, floated down the aisle as a flower girl, while twin sons Brian and John marched ahead as page boys. The glam squad savored every second of their royal cameo, but the glow didn’t last.
Fast-forward to June 2020: amid global Black Lives Matter protests, a Toronto-based influencer accused Mulroney of wielding white privilege to threaten her career over race conversations online. The public spat exploded across social media, and Mulroney issued a contrite apology—so contrite that her then-husband, TV host Ben Mulroney, quit his job to manage the fallout. Contracts with Hudson’s Bay, ABC, Cityline and CTV evaporated faster than champagne bubbles at a coronation party.
“If she could go back, she wishes she was never part of [the royal wedding],” claims a source close to Mulroney, pointing to the unwanted attention that fractured not only her friendship with Meghan but also introduced tension that allegedly contributed to her split from Ben after 16 years of marriage. What initially felt like a glittering ticket to fame ended up a “dark cloud,” the insider adds, one that now overshadows Jessica’s once-vaunted fashion empire.
Despite a blink-and-you-missed-it cameo in Meghan’s 2022 Netflix docuseries “Harry & Meghan,” the duo’s social media feeds have gone eerily silent. Fans noticed the post-block fade-out in 2021, and Mulroney’s occasional reassurance that the friendship remained intact has done little to erase the public perception of a rift too deep to mend.
Now, Mulroney faces the aftermath: a divorce in progress, a tarnished brand, and the lingering question of whether royal proximity was worth the price. Meanwhile, Meghan Markle carries on with her Archetypes podcast and advocacy work, seemingly unbothered by her former BFF’s second thoughts.
So there you have it – another friendship that fizzled under the flashbulbs. Somehow, it’s exactly what we expected all along.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and Daily Mail, New York Post
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