Meghan Markle launches next episodes of her Archetypes podcast

Meghan Markle has spoken about being described as ‘crazy’ in her latest Archetypes podcast on Spotify, which discusses how the label is used to ‘diminish women’s credibility’.  

The episode begins with the Duchess of Sussex issuing a trigger warning advising anyone to ‘tune out’ if they find the content ‘too heavy’. 

Meghan, 41, then says as an introduction: ‘Raise your hand if you’ve ever been called crazy or hysterical or what about nuts? Insane out of your mind, completely irrational, okay? You get the point.

‘Now, if we were all in the same room and could see each other, I think it would be pretty easy to see. Just how many of us have our hands up? By the way, me too. 

‘And it’s no wonder when you consider just how prevalent these labels are in our culture.’

She then plays a series of quotes, including one from American sitcom How I Met Your Mother in which the character Barney says: ‘If she’s this crazy, she has to be this hot.’ 

This is followed by the conservative philosopher Jordan Petersen, who says, ‘I don’t think that men can control crazy women’. 

The third segment comes from another American sitcom, Scrubs, in which the fictional female doctor Elliot comments: ‘I can’t take it, Carla! I cannot hide the crazy a minute longer! I’m just this big mountain of coocoo is about to erupt and spew molten crazy, all over him and he’s gonna die like this.’

The new release is described as an ‘in-depth and vulnerable conversation’ with the actresses Deepika Padukone, Jenny Slate and Constance Wu. It also features comedian Aparna Nancherla and the former Surgeon General of California, Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris.

Meghan says in the introduction: ‘Raise your hand if you’ve ever been called crazy or hysterical or what about nuts?’