In the final episode of the Harry & Meghan docuseries, popular Hollywood actor, Tyler shares that he had reached out to the Duchess of Sussex before her 2018 wedding amid the drama surrounding her dad, Thomas Markle. Tyler said, “I immediately empathized with her.
This was before the wedding. And I sent her a note, just praying for her just to be able to move through it and hold on, and let her know that everything in her life had prepared her for this moment, or so I thought.” Meghan also says that even though they have never met, the actor promised to be there for her if she ever needed him.
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Meghan continued to share that when was in Canada as she and her husband were trying to figure out their next step, she called Tyler. “I was just a wreck. I was just crying and crying,” she says. She opened up to him about everything that was going on. “I could hear the fear,” Tyler admits.
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“It was palpable. I mean, I could hear it. So I asked her, what was she afraid of? And she took a deep breath and she started listing the things, ‘I’m afraid of…’ And I said to her, ‘Every one of your fears are valid.’” He continued to say that the Duchess “afraid of them [the media] destroying her, or going crazy, or them making her think she was crazy. I saw my mother be abused for years. I knew the symptoms.
I knew it was like… This woman was abused. And so was he.” Meghan and Harry had already announced that they were stepping down as senior royals and had relocated to Vancouver Island, Canada. They didn’t have any security, and the whole world knew where they were. “They just wanted to be free. They wanted to be free to love and be happy. They didn’t… They did not have a plan,” the media mogul shared.
Tyler told them to stay in his Los Angeles mansion as long as they wanted to just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. He also provided security. Prince Harry says, “We were there for 6 weeks and no one knew. My family still thought I was in Canada.”
When the royal couple welcomed their baby girl, Lilibet Diana, they made Tyler her godfather. When the media found out the couple’s new location, Tyler constructed a fence around the house to keep photographers away. Later in 2020, the couple moved to their home in their home in Santa Barbara.
