Meghan Markle put on a brave face during a rare red carpet appearance after her alleged fallout with Netflix was exposed.
The Duchess of Sussex walked the red carpet for the Alliance for Children’s Rights 34th Annual Champions for Children event held at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills on Thursday.
She was all smiles as she posed beside her close friend Kelly McKee Zajfen before the two cosied up, reports Page Six.
For the outing, Meghan wore a simple strapless blue gown, which she paired with gold earrings and gold bracelets. McKee Zajfen, on the other hand, wore a body-hugging black dress, which showed off her growing bump.
Her appearance comes after Variety published a scathing report about her fallout with Netflix, which had just cut ties with her lifestyle brand As Ever.
In it, sources claimed that Meghan would “disappear” from Zoom meetings when she was offended.
“The mood in the building is ‘We’re done,’” a Netflix insider told the outlet, claiming that Meghan, 44, and Prince Harry’s behaviour “has ruffled feathers in meetings.”
However, her lawyer, Michael J. Kump, said in a letter to the outlet that she “works from home, is the mother of young children aged 4 and 6, and often encounters children who enter the space unexpectedly during a meeting.
“Independent of being a parent who works from home, Meghan is also conscious of shielding her team from the distraction of children,” Kump continued. “Nearly all professionals can attest to needing to turn off the audio or camera during a virtual meeting at some point during many hours of virtual business calls.”
It was also alleged that Meghan would “talk over or recast” Harry’s thoughts, even when he was mid-sentence, and then she’d touch his arm or thigh during virtual and in-person meetings with Netflix partners, sources said.
However, Kump insisted the claim “seems calculated to play into the misogynistic characterisation of her bossing her husband around.”
Harry, 41, also told Variety that the allegation is “categorically false.”
The report also claimed that Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos was “fed up” with the Sussexes, who allegedly directly texted Sarandos about their projects.
In fact, Sarandos allegedly said he wouldn’t sit for a call with Meghan unless a lawyer was present on the line, which a Netflix spokesman insisted was “absolutely inaccurate.”
Additionally, Netflix insiders insisted that Sarandos and his wife, Nicole Avant, frequently socialise with the Sussexes, who are their neighbours in Montecito.
A source also told Page Six that Meghan and Harry have a great working relationship with Sarandos.
Meghan and Harry originally negotiated a multimillion-dollar deal with Netflix in 2020 after leaving the royal family.
The couple went on to release their hit 2023 tell-all documentary, Harry & Meghan, their failed Polo series and Meghan’s critically maligned lifestyle series, With Love, Meghan.
Page Six reported last August that the couple extended their deal with the streamer, but that it was worth less than the previous one.
Most recently, Netflix cut ties with Meghan’s lifestyle brand, As Ever, after her two-season series With Love, Meghan was canned due to falling ratings.
However, the Sussexes still have a deal with Netflix via their production company, Archewell Productions, with a source telling us that multiple scripted and unscripted projects are in development.
This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission.
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