Meghan Markle was forced to laugh off a very awkward interaction during the newly-released second season of her show With Love, Meghan.
During her ‘Weekend Away’ episode, the Duchess of Sussex and her friend Heather Dorak met with mixologist Payman Bahmani-Bailey for a cocktail making class.
As they got to know each other, Meghan, 44, casually asked Payman how he became a mixologist, to which he replied he used to be a lawyer in New York before pursuing the craft.
Meghan perked up, asking him whether he watched Suits, the legal drama she starred in for seven seasons.
‘No, no, I don’t watch basic cable,’ brutally replied.
All Meghan could do was chuckle as he explained: ‘I like shows with curse words and stuff.’
Meghan Markle was forced to laugh off a very awkward interaction during the newly-released second season of her show With Love, Meghan. (Pictured: Meghan with mixologist Payman Bahmani-Bailey)
‘Great, I love it!’ Meghan laughed.
Meghan portrayed ambitious paralegal Rachel Zane in Suits from 2011 to 2018, leaving the show shortly before her marriage to Prince Harry.
It comes after a royal author claimed Meghan struggled to separate herself from her role and took criticism for her character as a personal attack.
Speaking of her Suits role, biographer Tom Bower wrote in his book, Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors: ‘Uppermost in her mind was her image.’
‘Convinced that she was on the cusp of international celebrity, she had become pre-occupied with Rachel Zane’s character.’
‘Constantly, she absorbed [Suits creator] Aaron Korsh’s vision for Zane, the feisty opportunist with extraordinary manipulative skills. Her own reputation, she feared, was threatened by her portrayal in Suits as an ‘unfaithful woman”.
According to Bower, she asked Korsh to end the affair storyline as she was worried about ‘potential backlash’.
‘Korsh agreed, aware that he was not only writing a good story but also Meghan’s real-life character and personality.’
When Meghan asked whether he watched her show Suits, Payman (left, with Heather Dorak) brutally replied: ‘No, no, I don’t watch basic cable’
All Meghan could do was chuckle as he explained: ‘I like shows with curse words and stuff’
Meghan portrayed ambitious paralegal Rachel Zane in Suits from 2011 to 2018, leaving the show shortly before her marriage to Prince Harry. (Meghan is pictured as her character in Suits)
