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Prince Harry and Meghan face disgrace after dad discusses hooker and drug scandal

"I’m sure that I had an occasional sniff of cocaine," Thomas Markle admits. - by Grace Back
  • 11 Oct 2018

Meghan Markle has faced yet another global disgrace after her father Thomas Markle confessed to using drugs. 

RadarOnline revealed the former Hollywood lighting director blew the lid off his "secret life". 

The 74-year-old directly admitted, “Have I ever paid for a sex worker? Uh, there was a Playboy Club in the top floor of a hotel in the Philippines, [but] I never paid for sex." 

“I would go upstairs and enjoy myself in the Playboy Club, but not…not for sex. I didn’t get sex out of it.”

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Thomas confessed while working in the entertainment industry, "drugs were rampant." 

“In the industry I worked in back in the ’70s and ’80s there was cocaine around a lot,” he said. “And I’m sure that I had an occasional sniff of cocaine.”

The shocking confessions are just the latest in a string of black marks Meghan's father has left since her marriage to Prince Harry. 

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The troubled recluse said earlier this year that he can no longer contact Meghan, and that she and Prince Harry may be better off if he weren’t alive.

“The men in my family rarely live over 80 so I’d be surprised if I had another ten years. I could die tomorrow,” the 74-year-old, who suffers heart problems, told Mail on Sunday. 

“Perhaps it would be easier for Meghan if I died,” he said later in the interview.

“Everybody would be filled with sympathy for her.” 

The Duchess of Sussex is yet to formally comment on her father's media antics, but it's been widely reported she has disassociated herself with him.

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Grace is the Digital Content Editor at New Idea. Grace is a lifestyle junkie who has previously interned at Dolly, Stellar and marie claire, as well having written in the fashion and beauty sections at Finder.com.au. When not working, you can find Grace heading for the slopes, playing with her pup or stuck in a seemingly endless Instagram scroll.

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