"Which OFCOM and even more evidently a leading mental health charity say they're concerned about you don't have any regrets on that?"Piers conclude
“Which OFCOM and even more evidently a leading mental health charity say they’re concerned about you don’t have any regrets on that?”
Piers concluded: “I am entitled to my opinion, and I have no desire to diminish the importance of an issue like suicide and serious mental health or racism or any of the issues that she touched on in the Oprah interview.
“But as a journalist, every instinct in me was, ‘Is it true? Is what she’s saying true?’ and I reached the conclusion pretty quickly that it wasn’t.
“Now, if she was to produce evidence that supports her allegations and we are still waiting, then I may revise my position, and I might be more sensitive.
“But I am afraid when I watched it, I felt she was being an actress spinning yarn after yarn to cause enormous damage to our royal family and institution of the monarchy, and I wasn’t going to have it.”
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