Royal Pundit Claims Meghan Markle 'Acts' Crazy After Duchess Discussed Mental Health

A royal pundit has claimed that Meghan Markle "acts crazy" after the Duchess of Sussex opened up about her mental health.

In a recent episode of her "Archetypes" podcast, titled "The Decoding of Crazy," the former "Suits" star revealed that she feels "strongly" about the word "crazy" and has been "conditioned" to keep her composure after being labeled words like "nuts" and "hysterical," People reported.

British-Jamaican author, socialite and TV personality Lady Colin Campbell reacted to Markle's comments in a video on her YouTube channel, claiming that while the duchess "is not crazy ... she certainly acts it."

The royal expert claimed that there are "parallels" between her own "mad" mother and Markle.

According to Campbell, her mother's behavior was so "bizarre" that at one point her father consulted a psychiatrist about her and later made an appointment for her with a "famous psychiatrist in Jamaica," where the pundit grew up.

"Mommy proudly came back and recounted her first encounter with [the psychiatrist]. She went a few times because she loved the attention, and any audience is better than none at all, especially if someone else was paying and daddy was," Campbell recalled.

The royal commentator claimed that when the psychiatrist asked her mother why she was visiting him, her mother replied, "Well because I'm mad. My husband says I'm mad to hell. I'm mad, mad, of course, I'm mad everybody knows I'm mad."

The doctor reportedly told her mother, "If you say you're mad, [it's likely] you aren't."

Campbell went on to claim that her mother "couldn't dip in and out of reality"

"Let me put it this way. To a healthy person, reality and truth coincide to a large extent. When they diverge, people know it. They will be uncomfortable about it. Sane, sensible, rational, decent people [are who] I'm speaking about. Now, it is said everybody lies on occasion, and if the incentive to lie is great enough, even people who regard themselves as moral will shave the truth, if not exactly lie," the pundit explained.

Campbell added that while most people will function within the parameters of truth and decency," people like her mother "do not" and instead see "reality, fact, truth and decency" as "candy in the jar of life for them to pick up and choose to consume when it suits them."

On her podcast, Markle said that the word "crazy" is being "thrown around so casually" and spoke of the "damage it's wrought on society and women everywhere." She explained that it has "shattered" relationships with families, "destroyed" reputations and "ruined" careers.

"The stigma surrounding the word, it also has this silencing effect — this effect where women experiencing real mental health issues, they get scared, they stay quiet, they internalize and repress for far too long," the duchess added, according to People.

Markle also admitted in the episode that she finds it difficult to cry because she is "conditioned" to have a certain "kind of composure" — but added that she wants to "let it out."

"I want to feel so deeply it's like an Adele album," she joked. "So much intense emotion. You just get it out and you share it. That's the peace."

Markle has spoken candidly about her mental health since she and husband Prince Harry left the royal family in 2020. In her 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, the duchess recalled having suicidal thoughts after welcoming son Archie, now 3.

"I just didn't want to be alive anymore," said Markle, who is also the mother of 1-year-old daughter Lilibet. "I knew that if I didn't say it that I would do it. And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought."