Meghan Markle quietly supported tennis player Naomi Osaka who was heavily criticized after she withdrew from the French Open to preserve her mental health
Alone against all? Not so much. If she is no longer unanimous among some members of the royal family following the Megxit and the accusations of moral harassment against her, Meghan Markle still enjoys a nice fan club. And in this inner circle, the Duchess of Sussex can count on Naomi Osaka. Indeed, the Japanese tennis player is full of praise for her.
And for good reason, the wife of Prince Harry was a shoulder on which the athlete could count after declaring withdrawal from the French Open. A decision carefully considered by the four-time Grand Slam champion. Suffering from “depressive disorders” since her victory at the 2018 US Open, Naomi Osaka preferred to withdraw from the tennis courts to preserve her mental health. A choice assumed, but strongly criticized that earned her a fine of $ 15,000 for refusing to attend a press conference.
Following this announcement, Meghan Markle hastened to call the tennis player to show her full support. An attention from the mother of Lilibet Diana and Archie that has deeply touched the 23-year-old athlete. “I want to thank everyone who has supported me. There are too many to name, but I want to start with my family and friends, who have been incredible.
There is nothing more important than those relationships. Thank you to the public who have supported me, encouraged me and offered such kind words,” she said in a poignant essay for Time. Michelle Obama, Michael Phelps, Steph Curry, Novak Djokovic, Meghan Markle, to name a few.” With this royal support, Naomi Osaka will have no trouble hitting hard against her demons.
Meghan Markle committed to mental illness
If Meghan Markle has been supportive of Naomi Osaka, she has also been supportive of her husband. As he revealed in the first episode of The Me You Can’t See, the documentary series he co-created with Oprah Wimbrey about mental health, Prince Harry confessed to having fallen into a long depression.
A dark period of his life that made him dive into alcohol. It was thanks to his wife that he finally agreed to go to therapy. An option he had never thought about before. “I knew if I didn’t do it, I was going to lose her,” he shares with great emotion. “When she said, ‘I think you need to see someone,’ it was in response to an argument we had. And in that argument, without knowing it, I became the 12-year-old Harry again,” he confided.
Although the couple is always in the middle of strong polemics, they seem to live happier and more blooming than ever in their sumptuous villa of Santa Barbara in company of their little wonders Archie and Lilibet Diana.
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