Justine Bateman Rips Prince Harry & Meghan Markle For ‘Victim Olympics Campaign’

Baila Eve ZismanMarch 22, 2025, 10:38 pmNews >

Family Ties alum Justine Bateman has ripped Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for acting like “victims” following their move to the US in 2020 after abandoning the royal family.

Joining critics’ almost unanimously poor reviews of Markle’s latest Netflix venture Love, Meghan, Bateman slammed the lifestyle series, asserting that the show was met with such a negative reaction because people didn’t want to “watch someone playact at something they didn’t earn.”

In the post to her newsletter, lengthily entitled, “The Problem With Meghan Markle: It’s Not What She’s Doing, It’s the Victim Olympics Road She Took To Get There,” Bateman attacked Markle’s brand As Ever, podcast Confessions of a Female Founder and the Netflix series.

Bateman recently claimed Harry and Markle were “disaster tourists” and “ambulance chasers” when they posted photos of themselves visiting an evacuation center following January’s L.A. wildfires. “What a repulsive photo op they achieved. They are ‘touring the damage’?…Are they politicians now? They don’t live here, they are tourists. Disaster Tourists.”

In the post, Bateman wrote, “The problem with Meghan Markle and her husband Harry is that every opportunity they have explored or exploited over the past few years has been due to their very aggressive Victim Olympics campaign…The difference between doing that two years ago and doing it now is immense. It’s 2025, and no one wants to see victims anymore.”

However, Bateman did add that she doesn’t think anyone wishes Markle “ill” and acknowledges that Markle does have the right to have her own show and podcast – but people do not have to “go along with another’s narrative anymore.”

While inside sources report that Netflix will not be renewing Markle and Harry’s $100 million five-year contract, it has been announced that Netflix greenlit a second season of Love, Meghan.