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Oprah Winfrey<\/strong><\/a> received public backlash as she reflected on her explosive 2021 interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Critics have accused the talk show host of distancing herself from the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to the Daily Mail<\/a>, Oprah Winfrey faced public ire after revisiting her 2021 interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Critics have accused her of \u201cbackpedaling\u201d<\/a> from the conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n In Vanity Fair\u2019s Scene Selection, Oprah recalled some milestone moments from her career. Looking back on the bombshell interview, Oprah attempted to explain her \u201cWere you silent or were you silenced?\u201d question to Meghan Markle.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to be clear,\u201d Oprah said. \u201cI said it for clarification because I didn\u2019t want, later, to hear, \u2018Well no, it wasn\u2019t that. It really was that I was silenced.\u2019 So it was all for clarification.\u201d<\/p>\n Her explanation drew criticism on X. One critic said, \u201cShe sounds so defensive, like she\u2019s gotten a lot of flak for her \u201cjournalism\u201d in that so-called interview.\u201d Another person quipped, \u201cIt is a bad look when Oprah has to clear this up now after so many years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n A third user questioned why Oprah had not asked for \u201cclarification\u201d about \u201cgetting married before the wedding\u201d as claimed by Markle. Someone also said that \u201cOprah backpedaling?\u201d <\/p>\n The interview came after the Sussexes had famously exited the royal fold and moved to Montecito, California. It featured Meghan claiming that the royal family had \u201cperpetuated falsehoods\u201d about the couple. Additionally, she claimed that she had been \u201csilenced\u201d while carrying out royal duties. The Duchess also claimed there had been concerns about Prince Archie\u2019s skin colour.<\/p>\n The interview also cemented Oprah\u2019s position as a strong ally of the Sussexes in their rift with the Firm. Five years later, Oprah is still being questioned about the interview, which ran for three and a half hours.<\/p>\n WHAT DO YOU THINK OF OPRAH\u2019S EXPLANATION?<\/strong><\/p>\n Originally reported by Sreemanti Sengupta on Reality Tea<\/a><\/p>\n The post Oprah Accused of \u2018Backpedaling\u2019 After Revisiting Meghan Markle Interview<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oprah Winfrey received public backlash as she reflected on her explosive 2021 interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Critics have accused the talk show host of distancing herself from the issue.\u00a0 Critics accused Oprah of distancing herself from Meghan Markle\u2019s bombshell royal interview According to the Daily Mail, Oprah Winfrey faced public ire after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2199148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Melissa-Gilbert-Celebrates-Dick-Van-Dykes-100th-Birthday-With-Throwback.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513141,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513140\/revisions\/2513141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Critics accused Oprah of distancing herself from Meghan Markle\u2019s bombshell royal interview<\/h2>\n