Back in March, you could feel the Duchess of Sussex’s biggest “critics” zeroing in on certain parts of her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan. Those “critics” were looking for anything they could attach themselves to, any hook to make an argument that WLM was dangerous/bad/monarchy-destroying. One of the criticisms they settled on was a section in WLM’s first episode, where Meghan made DIY bath salts. As I said at the time, it never occurred to me that anyone could use Epsom salt as a base and add essential oils to get the scent/aromatherapy you desire. Meghan didn’t even give people a “recipe” for the DIY bath salts on camera, she just threw together some Epsom salt in a jar, added a sh-t ton of essential oils and called it a day (Netflix did add a specific recipe for her bath salts on their site however). They were already screaming about it back in March. Two months later, they’ve now got a woman claiming that Meghan is responsible for her bath-salt-related injuries.
A fan threatened to sue Meghan Markle for $10 million after she allegedly suffered burns from using the duchess’ homemade bath salt recipe. Robin Patrick told Radar Online Wednesday that she watched Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix show, “With Love, Meghan,” and copied the ingredients the former royal used to make a bath salt gift for her pal and makeup artist Daniel Martin.
Markle used Epsom salt, Himalayan salt, arnica oil and lavender oil to make the bath salts.
Patrick told the outlet that she attempted to test the bath salts herself by dissolving them into warm water in her bathtub. However, she claimed she immediately felt that something was wrong.“Initially, I experienced a mild tingling sensation without discomfort,” Patrick claimed to Radar Online. “However, as the water level rose to cover my legs and reached my buttocks, I began to feel burning and significant discomfort in those areas. I immediately exited the tub, stopped the water, and later stirred the bathwater with my right hand and arm to assess the mixture.”
Patrick claimed she felt “additional burning sensations on my hand and arm.”
She then alleged that she drained the tub and applied Gold Bond lotion on her body, which provided no relief. Patrick then told the outlet that she used a lidocaine spray, which temporarily reduced the pain.
“That evening, while showering, I experienced intense burning as water contacted the affected areas, which had developed into ulcers,” she claimed. “To date, the burns are still not healed and are quite uncomfortable. The others are just sore as heck to touch. Since the incident, I have endured persistent burning, discomfort, and the emergence of new blister-like sores and ulcers daily. These symptoms have disrupted my daily and nightly routines, preventing me from taking warm showers or wearing clothing over the affected areas.”
Patrick told the outlet that Markle, 43, had a “duty of care” to provide “adequate warnings” to viewers about the potential dangers of using the salts due to the essential oils in the concoction.
She is reportedly seeking a “minimum” of $75,000 to cover medical expenses and $10 million from Markle, Netflix and Archewell Productions for their “reckless disregard for public safety and to deter similar conduct in the future.” Patrick said she is willing to settle out of court if a financial agreement can be reached.
I’m not going to get in the weeds about this one, I’ve already seen the Sussex Squad doing deeper dives on this woman and I’m sure everything will eventually come out. Especially if this lady does end up suing – right now, she hasn’t filed anything, she’s just trying to see if Meghan will throw some money at her. The “duty of care” comment tells you all you need to know about what this is really about and what this woman’s agenda really is – Prince Harry cited the Windsors’ “duty of care” when it came to his family’s security. Now this woman is mimicking the same line about her “bath salt injuries.”
Photos courtesy of Netflix.
Insert .gif of Older Black Woman staring ….🤣
Sussex Squad gone go HAM!
Right?
She’s about to wish she’d just washed her ass and gone to bed!
Not sure why a group of uninvolved people need to go after her. Meghan and Netflix have great lawyers and there’s lots of precedence for these kinds of frivolous lawsuits.
One could ask the same regarding her frivolous lawsuit & why she choose to go to Radar to put it out in the public domain…which means she WANTS that smoke…so she’s gone get it…you don’t want the public to be involved…don’t go public
Was she trying to recreate the Dead Sea? Did she put the whole jar in the tub?
Also sounds like she sat in the tub immediately before it was filled & given the salts time to dissolve. That was a mistake on her part. Also unclear on her salt to oils & ultimately water ratio.
From the little I parched together, this woman did not actually watch the show. In addition, she is diabetic and should not have been using epsom salt for bathing. This segment of Meghan’s show was not a recommendation but showed how she prepared these bath salts for her friend. Suing because you are dumb should not be rewarded.
I wrote more or less the same further down, but you were quicker…
This!
I am a well controlled diabetic (got my A1C down to 5!) with no complications (neuropathy, vascular issues, eye issues, etc). And my medical team is still insistent that I don’t use epsom salts to soak my FEET so why would a diabetic soak their ASS?
Money and attention grubbing ahole.
Plus, old tweets show that she loves to threaten lawsuits because she has no money. Earlier this year she was wanting an attorney to sue the Democratic Party lol.
Oh dear.
All I know is that I got a flash of Samantha Grant Markle, the 1/2-sister, inserting herself into Meghan’s public life and then complaining and suing Meghan on the basis that her now-negative public image has interfered with her life ability to earn a living.
Wow. Is she a plant of the Windsor clan? Wouldn’t put it past them. Or is she just a Sussex hater doing her thing.
Sounds like she had a sensitivity to one of the ingredients. The intelligent thing to do would have been wash off thoroughly right then instead of continuing to play with the water. And the Gold Bond lotion thing wasn’t a smart move either. Is there a doctor’s statement to go with that $75,000 bill?
Just googled both Epsom salt and essential oils. Both say you can get some irritation and rash if 1. You use it too often. 2. Have sensitive skin. The essential oil can cause some blisters. Did this woman marinate herself in the stuff for hours and hours?
Can you sure someone bc you are dumb? I’m asking bc I came here to say the same thing. She felt discomfort immediately but didn’t shower it off until later that night? That’s so dumb.
Yes you can use bc you are dumb. Our local fast food place handed a cup of hot coffee to a customer with the warning, “be careful this is hot” and placed it in a cup holder for her. She spilled it and sued.
People doing dumb stuff and then suing and winning (!) has been the butt of the jokes for a long time. It also explains too many too obvious disclaimers everywhere. Like the above mentioned note that coffee can be hot.
This “sue for dumb stuff that is actually your fault” is a common stereotype of Americans, specifically, in Europe at least, where suing and winning cases like these is not as widespread. I’m not sure if it even is in the US, but the stereotype exists.
We’ll see where this goes. Like Kaiser mentioned, this is probably the woman’s attempt to get a nice pay-check before it goes to court or before she calls every media outlet to sell her little story. She’ll get some money from it either way.
The lawsuit I’m aware of re hot coffee involved coffee hot enough to cause serious disfiguring burns. Hot beverages should not be served hot enough to cause serious injury if they come in contact with skin if they happen to spill.
(Not sure if that’s the hot coffee case you’re referring to.)
This bath salts person OTOh … she made the bath herself, using ingredients she chose and sourced from who knows where, and sat in it according to her own discretion.
HRH had nothing to do with any of that.
Oh yeah, that McDonald’s hot coffee case was NOT frivolous. Read the details. (Of course, every grifter after that tried it with a different fast food chain).
@North Of Boston:
Totally off topic, but I love it that people are starting to use HRH as a nickname for Meghan.
I can’t help picturing Billy Idle going into a full-on, incandescent, pillow- and dog-bowl-destroying rage spiral over it.
Maybe Bone Idle will exert herself and calm him down with a big bouquet of her new I Had Cancer Really I Swear I Did roses.
I think you can sue anyone for anything if you can find a lawyer to take your case. Doesn’t mean a judge will allow you to take it forward.
Yeah, putting anything on your skin other than plain water after feeling a burning sensation is just plain dumb. She needs to sue herself for negligence.
One of the derangers probably. I wonder if some money was thrown at her to threaten a law suit
Who in their right mind, with a plausible grievance, goes to Radar Online?
Shaking my head at this Deranger who is too deranged to figure out what kind of footprint she’s left on social media.
I more or less saw this happening in real time, a Squaddie finding out that this Deranger is a diabetic. Bath salts are not exactly beneficial for diabetics, so the duty of care is on her. They also foynd out that other Derangers egged her on, that she didn’t watch WLM.
It was all very funny. But it’s all on her.
Waiting with bated breath to find out how this saga will play out.
I commented above but as a diabetic I have been advised to NOT use epsom salts to soak my FEET so why would a diabetic soak their ASS?
She should sue those who egged her on. They’re the ones who had the duty of care.
“So madam, you listen to the health advice of people on the internet? Can you point out who they are?”
If she’s never watched the show, why is it on Meghan? So viewers should sue shows now?
Or her doctor for not advising her not to use epson salts.
@Blogger:
She tweeted asking people to send her a clip of the WLM episode demonstrating the bath salts being made.
Here’s an article showing receipts:
https://feminegra.com/meghan-sussexs-lawyer-fires-back-at-10m-bath-salt-lawsuit-threat-over-netflix-recipe/
She’s an open Deranger who didn’t even bother to scrub her history before trying to gin up this frivolous lawsuit. Netflix is not having it.
This woman is a diabetic so should know the dangers of using Epsom salt for skin care. She’s using the media to blackmail Meghan out of a check but Netflix entered the chat and its lawyers won’t be nice.
She also has history of posting anti MM videos online. Coincidence? I doubt it.
I read that the lady is a diabetic and Epsom salts carry warnings that say if you have diabetes, don’t use it. It can cause exactly what happened to her. So, it’s not Meghan’s fault this woman didn’t read the instructions.
Like we didn’t see someone pulling a scam like this the moment M’s show aired. Just surprised there isn’t someone else suing for food poisoning after consuming one of M’s AsEver products.
Apparently there are also Kate fans ordering Meghan’s products then damaging them and posting pics online. Saying they arrived like that. Crazy
It does not say much for keen if her fans behave that way
This reminds me of when people were burning their Nike sneakers to protest Kaepernick, or way back in the day when people would buy explicit music albums to destroy them.
Meghan has your money, you idiots. And there won’t be enough of you willing to or able to afford to pull this stunt to really put a dent into her. So who is the real loser? LOL.
Which is kinda hilarious because deranger money is still money, and Meghan got theirs. And the vast majority of us who got our hands on As Ever products are supporters and were so excited to brag about our purchases that there are plenty of unboxing videos and photos all over social media to show that on the whole, things were well-packaged and arrived in perfect condition.
She sounds like a deranger.
So she entered the tub with the running water before the it filled up and dissolved the salts? Weird chain of events. Did she burn herself with hot water as the tub was filling up?
What she said:
“However, as the water level rose to cover my legs and reached my buttocks, I began to feel burning and significant discomfort in those areas. I immediately exited the tub, stopped the water, and later stirred the bathwater with my right hand and arm to assess the mixture.”
Reads like a deliberate attempt to swindle Meghan, Archewell and Netflix; hoping they would want to pay her off to go away and keep quiet. I am not surprised that someone went to great lengths to try to hamper Meghan’s success. The royals and their sycophants in the media continue to drum up anti Sussex propaganda to incite the public to attack them at all angles. From what I’ve seen and heard from the relentless bombardment, I have firmly concluded without a doubt, that their objective is to make the Sussexes disappear like Princess Diana so that the media can rewrite the narrative to absolve themselves and the royal mafia family, and repair the royal brand. Harry has done well by continuing to publicly speak out to ensure that we are aware of what happened and is continuing to happen behind the scenes 👍. His voice is necessary to connect the dots and also to ensure good people do not look away or fall asleep on the establishment stitch up and stochastic terrorism being perpetrated 24/7/365.
@MSJ,
That was my exact response. She got into a tub and didn’t wait for the salts or the essential oils to be dissolved/diluted. I can’t imagine how uncomfortable sitting on all that undissolved salt was for buttocks. 😵💫
I wouldn’t want all that undissolved salt near my nether regions AT ALL.
I am a t1 diabetic diagnosed late in life. The first thing that my Dr told me was do Not soak in the tub. Under any circumstance. Period.
Soak in plain water or soak with epsom salts?
T2 diabetic who has been told no epsom but not no soaking in general.
The “duty of care” phrasing isn’t a jab at Harry. It’s a required element of a negligence claim.
I didn’t know that people with diabetes shouldn’t use epsom salt, so out of curiosity, I googled a few to see if the packaging contains warnings and sure enough, it does. I can’t imagine that Meghan has a duty of care to warn every viewer that the things she does might be medically or inappropriate for a small segment of her viewers but even if she did have such a duty, the complainant had the last clear chance to avoid her injuries if she had heeded the warning on the epsom salt package. Does Meghan also need to warn people with celiac that they should use gluten-free pasta or bread? Should she warn people with allergies that they might not want fresh flowers in their home? This is a stupid shakedown and if the lawsuit even gets filed, I’d expect it to not get passed a motion to dismiss. Summary judgment after some very limited discovery, at worst.
It seems the receipt was actually given out by Netflix so why isn’t she suing Netflix rather than Meghan. What about her doctor, did she get advice about not using Epsom salts. She was sitting in the bath while running water into it, perhaps she scalded herself, She’s diabetic and we know that damages nerves, hence the frequent foot inspections, she might not have noticed how hot the water was.
We made Epsom salt bath salts for our moms in grade school. Mixed the salts with a few drops of scented oils, then with a few drops of food coloring in separate bowls, and built stacked rainbows in a mason jar. Guess I’m lucky my mom didn’t sue me and garnish my allowance.
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Imagine being this pathetic.
Sadly, I was expecting some deranger to sue her and I am surprised it has taken this long. This whole thing seems rotten. Maybe I am being dense, but how to you soak your feet and legs before your ass in a tub? Do diabetes have a bath chair? Even in that case, the water would have reached the ultra sensitive region of her kitty, which should have sent her leaping out of there. Then she sticks her arm in? I get that she had morbid curiosity, but if my legs were burning I wouldn’t risk more than a finger.
I honestly wouldn’t put it past these derangers to use cleaning fluid to achieve these effects, which from the photos don’t seem that serious. I haven’t seen any mention of an ER visit, which I am guessing she skipped since they would provide evidence as to the nature of the chemical burns.
literally trained as a holistic aromatherapist here… barring some kind of allergy/ skin injury /other not disclosed health issue …No. I watched that ep of As Ever immediately because there was a story on Celebitchy about this very thing. I watched what she did and while it was probably VERY fragrant, a palmful or two of that in a bath is no big deal and probably very pleasant. This person is like a person who sues McDonalds for having scalding hot coffee. Except ***she is also the McDonalds!!!***
This lady is a sue-hungry idiot. That said, the McDonalds’ in question kept their coffee at an unsafe scalding point. The victim had every right to sue after getting third-degree burns.
I saw on Yahoo that an attorney for IPC (one of the entities she named in her lawsuit) wrote a scathing letter back. He pulled no punches, which is honestly refreshing for once. No dancing around things using vague language, no wishy-washy nonsense. Straight for the jugular–you love to see it.
This is an excerpt from the article:
In response to Patrick’s claims, Stracher said: “IPC regrets to hear about any injuries you may have suffered, under the law, neither IPC, Netflix, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, nor Archewell are liable to you for your claims.
“None of the parties responsible for the Series, including the entities you list in your letter, owe you a particular duty of care because you do not have a special relationship with any of them as a matter of law,” he continued.
“There is nothing inherently dangerous about a mixture of salts, arnica oil, and essential oil. Thus, because the recipe for the bath salts that allegedly caused your injuries does not constitute a ‘clear and present danger’ to the public, you cannot pierce the First Amendment protections for speech by bringing a negligence claim against the entities that you threaten,” Stracher said.
He noted: “Even assuming a negligence claim could be asserted, your letter fails to identify any legal basis to support such a claim, and in fact concedes that the proximate cause of your injuries was your health conditions, including diabetes. The use of Epsom salts is contraindicated for individuals with diabetes except on the advice of a physician.”
(https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/meghan-markle-lawyer-responds-lawsuit-211510896.html)
I’ll just say that both epsom salts and any essential oil I have ever used contain ample warnings about the possibility of skin irritation. Using any fragrant oil undiluted carries risks, especially if you have sensitive skin and/or a pre-existing condition. I seriously doubt that this even makes it to court.
This is a ton of stupidity and bad choices to come from one person.
It’s best to let the salts dissolve before you get in the bath. You don’t dump them in the bath and then add water with you already in it.. Meghan isn’t responsible for people’s ignorance. (PS I’ve made her bath salts and they’re amazing. So soothing!)
Me too! I love making a little jar of salts and intend to make some for a visiting friend. and of course you dissolve them before you step into the water
I was afraid of this type of thing. Hope it dies down, quickly.
That sounds like an horrible allergic reaction and from what she’s saying she hasn’t tried to seek medical advice but went to the press instead. As a person who is allergic to a lot of stuff I wouldn’t even try to do my own bath salts, I get little burn blisters when I use too much soap at my work.
This poor woman. She is abused left and right. I have a distinct memory of some celebrity adding multiple bags of epsom salt to their bath before an awards ceremony. Jennifer Gardner? January Jones? IDK.