Australian broadcaster Karl
Stefanovic made fun of Meghan Markle who recalled a fire scare in her son’s
Archie’s room.
The Today Show host struggled
to hide his laughter when the Duchess described her story. “So, just to get
this right, the baby’s, what, not even there?” he said.
“No… the nanny had taken
the baby from the room before the fire ignited,” co-host Allison Langdon
replied.
“But… so then, the baby’s
not there when the fire catches right? And because the baby wasn’t there, she
was going to have difficulties going to a function? Oh, my God,”
Stefanovic responded.
Langdon insisted that Meghan
was a new mother in a country she was not familiar with. However, the
broadcaster suggested she stop showing fake sympathy.
“That is not you talking.
You are a woman who says ‘grow a set’. That’s what you would say
normally,” he said.
This came after the Suits alum
recalled the emotional trauma during the first episode of her new Spotify podcast.
“The heater in the
nursery caught on fire,” she said. “There was no smoke detector.
Someone who happened to just smell smoke down the hallway went with a fire
extinguisher. He was supposed to be sleeping in there.”
“We came back,” she
continued. “And of course, as a mother, you go, Oh, my God, what?
Everyone’s in tears, everyone’s shaken. And what do we have to do? Go out and
do another official engagement? I said this doesn’t make any sense.
The focus ends up being on how
it looks instead of how it feels.”
