Revealed: Meghan Markle hires a fact checker for her Spotify podcast series Archetypes
- Meghan Markle has hired a fact checker for her Spotify podcast series
- She chose the US author Nicole Pasulka, whose interests coincide very closely with hers
- Pasulka writes about “activism, race, music, economics, queer culture and gender”
Meghan Markle has hired a fact checker for her highly anticipated Spotify podcast series Archetypes.
Her poise and passion in front of a camera or microphone is certainly unmatched in royal history. But those gifts haven’t hidden the Duchess of Sussex’s fact that, like the rest of humanity, she’s fallible.
The Chron’s Richard Eden can reveal that Meghan has employed a “fact-checker” for Archetypes, which resumes today after being suspended immediately after the Queen’s death.
Meghan didn’t choose an ordinary recruit, but a young and highly talented American writer, Nicole Pasulka, whose interests closely mirror her own.
Meghan Markle has hired a fact checker for her highly anticipated Spotify podcast series Archetypes
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex greet US singer Pharrell Williams at the European premiere of Disney’s “The Lion King”.
“I write about criminal justice, activism, race, music, business, queer culture and gender,” Pasulka tells visitors to her website that she is “currently writing a book.”
In fact, her book was published this summer – entitled: How You Get Famous.
Lest the uninitiated conclude that this is a fictional account of an attractive, multiracial American actress who is catapulted to international attention by marrying a king’s younger son, think again.
Instead, it’s “a deep dive into New York City’s underground drag scene” and has been hailed as “an engaging book that will appeal to both gender researchers and anyone interested in queer culture.” There is currently no indication that Pasulka’s role will extend beyond the podcast.
A fact-checker could clear up the confusion that has occasionally – and unfortunately – followed some of Meghan’s statements. In an interview with American magazine The Cut, for example, she recalled chatting with a South African cast member of The Lion King at the 2019 London premiere
That’s a shame. A fact-checker could clear up the confusion that has occasionally – and unfortunately – followed some of Meghan’s statements.
In an interview with American magazine The Cut, for example, she recalled chatting with a South African cast member of The Lion King at the 2019 London premiere.
“He said, ‘You just have to know, when you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets as much as we did when Mandela got out of prison,'” Meghan recalled.
But Dr. John Kani, the only South African cast member, has pointed out that he never met Meghan and was not at the premiere. Of course, as the late Queen memorably put it on another occasion, “memories can vary.”