Brooke Shields revealed she tried to amuse Meghan Markle during a panel at the SXSW Conference in March 2024 but her attempt backfired.
The Mother of the Bride star shared that she interrupted the Duchess of Sussex during the talk because the conversation felt too serious.
Recalling the incident, the actor said Meghan was telling her well-known story about writing to Procter & Gamble at age 11 to protest a sexist dish soap ad.
Speaking on India Hicks’ podcast, she added that the moment was becoming too heavy and decided to lighten the mood by joking, “When I was 11, I was playing a prostitute,” referring to her role in the film Pretty Baby.
The audience laughed, but Shields said Meghan didn’t seem too pleased with the interruption.
“It was just too precious,” she said of Meghan’s story, adding that she was worried the audience wouldn’t want to “sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious.”
“Katie asks the first question to Meghan and talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women, etcetera, etcetera,” Shields recalled, referring to host host Katie Couric.
