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In her latest podcast, Meghan Markle blasted Hollywood for its damaging stereotypes of “crazy” females.
The fifth episode of her Spotify series Archetypes is titled “The Decoding of Crazy,” and began by Meghan warning anyone who finds the content “too heavy” to “tune out,” before she went on to discuss how the words “crazy” and “hysterical” are used far too often when it comes to women.
The former Suits star highlighted two sitcoms and played a series of quotes, including the character, Barney, from How I Met Your Mother saying, “If she’s this crazy, she has to be this hot.”
The character Elliot from Scrubs is heard telling her pal Carla, “I cannot hide the crazy a minute longer! I’m just this big mountain of cuckoo that is about to erupt and spew molten crazy, all over him and he’s gonna die like this.”
She also referred to Jordan Peterson saying in an interview, “I don’t think that men can control crazy women.”
Meghan remarked, “Calling someone crazy or hysterical completely dismisses their experience and minimizes what they’re feeling.”
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She continued: “It keeps going to the point where anyone who’s been labelled it enough times can be gaslit into thinking that they’re actually unwell or sometimes worse, to the point where real issues of all kinds get ignored.”
Meghan described how she herself has been called “crazy” and “hysterical” before revealing a time when she was at her “worst point” – which is when husband Prince Harry stepped in with a referral to a therapist.
She said it was that gesture that forced her to “be really honest about what it is that you need and to not be afraid to make peace with that to ask for it.”
Meghan also detailed how in her younger days, she felt “lonely” and “didn’t fit in” whereas now, she admits to wanting to “feel so deeply it’s like an Adele album” but says she has been conditioned not to show intense emotion in public because there is a “stigma” that has a “silencing effect,” particularly for those with real mental health issues.
“They get scared,” Meghan said. “They stay quiet, they internalize, and they repress for far too long.”
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