Diva is Mariah Carey.
The singer was Meghan Markle's guest in the last episode of her Archetypes podcast, broadcast on August 30, 2022 on Spotify and devoted to the term "diva".
A status totally assumed by the interpreter of
All I want for Christmas is you
, who nevertheless surprised the Duchess of Sussex when she was called the same term.
Indeed, during the episode, Mariah Carey launched to him: “You give us diva moments sometimes, Meghan”.
A term that destabilized the latter.
“It stopped me dead,” she explains in voiceover in the podcast, as can be read on the
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“Everything was going wonderfully, I mean really well.
Until that moment came, and I don't know about you, but it stopped me cold...when she called me a diva!"
says Prince Harry's wife.
“You couldn't see me, of course, but I started sweating, squirming in my chair, rebelling internally.
I was like “wait, wait, no, what?
How ?
But ?
How could you?
It's not true, it's not... Why do you say that?”
My head was really spinning thinking about the nonsense she must have read or clicked on to say that.
I kept thinking, at that moment, that my admiration for her was going to die out.
So she must have sensed my nervous laughter, and you all would have sensed it as well,”
But in a tweet promoting the famous podcast, the singer hastened to explain this sentence, without apologizing.
“I really enjoyed talking with the Duchess and diva, Meghan Markle.
Yes !
I called her a diva, in the most fabulous, magnificent and rewarding sense of the term,” she tweeted on Friday, September 2.
"When she said diva, she was talking about how I dress, my posture, my clothes, what she considers 'fabulous'.
She said it as a compliment (…), continued, in the podcast, the wife of prince Harry.
But I heard it as an attack.
And it's mind-boggling how a very meaningful word can mean totally different things to different people."
No animosity is therefore to be declared between the two women.
Quite the contrary.