Meghan Markle’s half-sister Samantha speaks out on family rift: ‘When my dad goes, it will be too late’

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told the Daily Mail, claiming Meghan has “missed opportunities.”“Believe me, I know. You can’t get back that time. It leaves a hole in your heart.”Samantha, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, says she “couldn’t believe” how her estranged half-sister treated the royals.“I don’t know the royal family,” Samantha said. “I’m just a human, watching from across the pond, but I couldn’t believe it… My dad doesn’t want Meghan to pay him back.

But you want love from them because there is a pain in your heart if it isn’t there.”“I didn’t want my mom to die feeling she was alone, and not loved.

I almost left it too late. They could both learn from me,” she added.Thomas Sr. has faced a slew of health woes in recent years, and even made a “deathbed plea” to his estranged daughter in April 2023.The retired Hollywood lighting director suffered a stroke in 2022 and expressed fears that he hasn’t got much time left to make amends with Meghan, whom he hasn’t spoken to in six years.The pair were once close, but their relationship soured shortly before her 2018 wedding to Harry.The Sussexes quit royal life in 2020 and hightailed it across the pond.After the duo settled into their new life in Montecito, Calif., Samantha said she “never thought” her half-sister would “do what she has done to the royal family.”“She’s done what she did to her own family to so many other people, too.

I knew my dad had suffered, but I thought she would stop at the queen,” she said.“If you accept an olive branch, you are asking to be hurt again.