Meghan Markle has denied she lied about her childhood during her tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey last year.
The denial came about as part of a legal suit launched by her half-sister Samantha Markle in March.
Samantha is suing the Duchess of Sussex in a defamation case, zeroing in on the fact that Meghan claimed to Oprah in 2021 that she "grew up as an only child".
Meghan and Samantha are half-siblings, sharing the same father, Thomas Markle, along with half-brother Thomas Markle Jr.
Half-sister Samantha is hoping to win over NZ$110,000 in damages following the comments, which were widely reported at the time of the programme's broadcast.
In the infamous interview, Meghan looked back on her childhood, sharing: "I grew up as an only child, which everyone who grew up around me knows.
"I wished I had siblings," she continued.
"I would've loved to have had siblings. That's why I'm so excited to be pregnant so that Archie has someone."
Samantha claims Meghan's comments have subjected her to "humiliation, shame and hatred on a worldwide scale."
Meghan's lawyers have responded to the suit, saying the comments were clearly subjective, not factual and therefore, not defamatory. They claimed the words would be a "textbook example of a subjective statement about how a person feels about her childhood."
Meghan's legal team have also argued that Samantha will be unable to prove the comments, saying: "It is hard to imagine a more personal and subjective feeling than how one views their own childhood.
"Meghan's response to that question that she 'grew up as an only child' was obviously not meant to be a statement of objective fact that she had no genetic siblings or half-siblings."
