Some people on social media were reposting this 2022 Yahoo column written by Omid Scobie, where he discussed why the Duchess of Sussex does not owe her father a damn thing. Scobie correctly pointed out that the British media’s conversation about Thomas Markle is that “he did one bad thing in 2018 – staging paparazzi photos – and that’s why Meghan cut off contact, which is why Meghan is terrible!” Scobie listed all of the other reasons why Meghan ceased communications, and remember, this is solely stuff that happened in 2020-2022: Tom provided Meghan’s private letter to the Mail and then joined forces with the Mail to harass and defame Meghan in the middle of lawsuit; he called Meghan a liar for discussing her suicidal ideation in 2021; he praised the hate-accounts stalking Meghan; he worked with a British broadcaster to attend the Jubbly; he claimed that Meghan lied about the Windsors’ “concerns” about Archie’s skin color; and finally, he called Lili’s birthday “trashy.”
Well, Thomas has now been living in the Philippines for most of this year. It looks like he lives with his son, Tom Jr., and the Mail’s Caroline Graham. On Wednesday, Graham had a big exclusive for the Mail: Thomas was in intensive care after an emergency surgery, and more importantly, the Duchess of Sussex had not contacted him. Then, midday on Thursday, Graham – who is fully living in the Philippines – had another exclusive: Thomas is in stable condition, it will be a long recovery from whatever this was, and Meghan still hasn’t taken their bait. Now Graham has confirmed what the emergency surgery was in the first place: a leg amputation.
Meghan Markle’s father Thomas has had life-saving surgery to amputate his left leg below the knee, the Daily Mail can reveal today. Mr Markle, 81, underwent a three-hour operation on Wednesday to remove his left foot and lower leg after a blood clot cut off circulation and the limb turned black.
His son Thomas Jr confirmed the news last night saying: ‘My dad is being very brave. His foot turned blue and then black. It happened very quickly. I took him to a local hospital and they did some scans and an ultrasound and said the leg had to be amputated.’
Retired Hollywood lighting director Mr Markle was rushed via ambulance to a bigger hospital in Cebu in the Philippines – the city he moved to earlier this year in a bid to create a ‘new life’ away from what he called the ‘constant pain’ of his estrangement from Meghan.
Doctors immediately took him into surgery and removed the limb. Tom Jr said: ‘There was no option. I was told the leg had to be removed and it was a case of life or death.’
Mr Markle now faces another procedure to remove a blood clot in his left thigh.
He has never met his son-in-law Prince Harry or grandchildren Archie, six and four-year-old Lilibet. His son Tom Jr, who has been his primary caregiver, said doctors remain ‘extremely concerned’ for his father’s welfare. Mr Markle remains in the intensive care unit in stable condition.
Tom Jr said: ‘One of his doctors said the next two or three days are critical. His left leg has been removed below the knee. They were worried about infection setting in – sepsis or gangrene. The flesh was black and dying. There was no option given. It was either ‘we have to operate now and remove the leg or he may die. It was a life-threatening situation.’
To say that these people have serious credibility issues would be the understatement of the year. If this is true, it’s rough and I hope he has a good medical team and I’ll leave it at that. I hope the Sussexes are having a pleasant week and no, Meghan should not get in touch with any of these people. She said, in 2021, that she lost her father. That’s the healthiest mindset for her, in my opinion.
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I hope Meghan keeps her peace and her space. These people are degenerates and Tom is listening to them. He wouldn’t be in this position if he’d just stayed focused on loving his daughter and not selling her out.
The Markles and The Windsors have so much in common 🤣🤣🤣
Sometimes you have to give up toxic people. Sometimes those toxic people are a parent. She owes this toxic person absolutely nothing!
Toxic families like Meghan’s must be given the boot. Besides …. The young Filipino girlfriend he’s been pictured with can take care of him. 🤷♀️
Why would a man that claimed he had two heart attacks and a stroke move to the Philippines?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
He caused the trouble. He has not seen the older grandchildren but only mentions the youngest two. Harry met tom over the phone and tom efused to use the airline tickets he was sent to fly to the uk.
This is my opinion, Meghan loved/loves, but knew she could not trust him, and he proved her right.
Well. People younger than him has died. Somif he dies at 80yrs its notba tragedy. Infact according to the Good Book, he had extra 10yrs.
That dm reporter companion of his has put in her time and cant wait for her ultimate reward, the exclusive of breaking the news of Thomas death and how Meghan was contacted.
Meghan should focus on her God and her family the loves and care for her.
I agree with you @kaiser on Meghan’s mindset.. her father passed away from her life years ago.
If Wills wasn’t stuck in his dysfunctional family, he’d be no contact with his dad too. And he probably mostly is anyway, from what we have heard.
What about his elder daughter? she can’t take her children, they are being brought up by their other grandparents. Will the media criticise her for that, no of course not, they will only criticise Meghan for not going. Of course if it wasn’t for Meghan we wouldn’t have heard anything about this. And if Meghan hadn’t married Harry how interested would Thomas be in seeing Archie and Lilibet.
Her three kids are grown and 2 of them have spoken in support of Meghan (the third, male, hasn’t spoken at all AFAIK). But they don’t mention that.
His ex wife, Samantha and Tom Jr’s mother, has also spoken in support of Meghan and raised some of their children.
This could be true or it could be a ruse to shame an abused woman into contacting her sh*tty father. Then they can get weeks of melodrama out of that. What possible journalistic rationale is there for assigning a reporter to cover this man, whatever his medical problems, full time?
This. Thomas Markle has had constant babysitters from the British media since Harry and Meghan started dating. Nothing says your daughter is never contacting you again like actually moving the enemy into your life full time.
Why does Meghan need to contact him at all? They’re not saying that he’s destitute on the streets and can’t afford surgery ( I’m not saying she should in that case either), but what he just needs to talk to her because he may not be long for this planet? He should have realized that 10 years ago, when the dollar signs for selling out his kid was more important to him than anything.
As recapped in this article, and as I said yesterday not only is this the only parent that she has that has literally sold her out to the British media, he offered to testify on their behalf in the lawsuit she brought against them. The British media that right now, literally days ago, was attacking her for her non taxpayer funded, none mandatory ways of earning money.
I don’t believe that this guy has ever been a decent father honestly. I believe that Meghan has always given in. I believe that he has done horrible things to her, treated her cruelly probably, and probably made her cry multiple times throughout her life and she forgave him because it was Daddy. He can’t believe that is not happening again, and that she’s held out for so long. He doesn’t care about her, it’s an injury to his ego.
Yeah I’m sceptical about the leg amputation, but anyway I couldn’t give a rat’s a*s what happens to Thomas Markle.
It’s unfortunate for Meghan that she has such disloyal, money-grabbing scum as immediate family, but she’s done the right thing and gone NC with the vile lot of them.
She would be mad to take the British media bait and recontact any of them. I’m pretty sure she’s not mad, so this cycle of Meghan-bashing will die down soon enough…
… unless Thomas packs it in before that happens, in which case it’ll go on for another week!
I won’t be surprised if he actually has had a leg amputated. He’s always been grossly overweight and probably has diabetes. Limb amputation is common in late stage diabetic patients and he doesn’t look like he’s taken much care of himself in recent times.
Yeah, this happened with a co-worker’s father, lifelong diabetic, got older, first they needed to amputate one leg, then the other. He didn’t last long after that.
Makes sense, though if he did in fact have the surgery, I wonder exactly when it occurred. The timing of the information is just too convenient. Maybe it actually took place a week or two ago, they thought it would be something great to beat Meghan over the head with, and so delayed release of the information knowing the WLM special was coming up.
So are he and Caroline Graham in a relationship now? Does she really just live with him to get stories? That’s sad. My theory is someone somewhere is afraid of what he could spill and that’s why they have to have someone around him at all times. Anyways, it sounds like he has her and his son to care for him in his recovery.
I have to say, him and his two sprogs Thomas jr and whatsername are so incredibly ugly and repulsive, I can’t understand how anyone would want to be in a relationship with any of them!
The things people do for money…
I wouldn’t be surprised if she set herself up as the gf for articles and a book (probably to be published post mortem)
Yuck!
@jais – It doesn’t bear thinking about. Just what is Caroline Graham doing with these two sleazy men?
It’s the Olivia Nuzzi style of journalism, apparently.
@Beanie I snorted laughing at this!
Tom didn’t care if Meghan died, why should she care what happens to him now?
Honestly. Why are they even reporting this, since this man is irrelevant and has been for years? (Obviously that’s a rhetorical question since it’s the Fail we’re talking about.) Meghan will continue to ignore his sh!t and live her life.
Really, he hears that his beloved daughter felt suicidal and his only reaction was she’s lying? And did we hear a peep of sympathy when Meghan had a miscarriage – this man who claims he’s a loving grandfather? He’s worse than a stranger.
Talk about a bucket of cold water on what was a fantastic Week for the Sussexes, That is just evil. everyone is asking the same question why is there a journalist babysitting him and travelling to where ever he goes. that alone is enough reason not to contact him.
I don’t see where Meghan’s week is ruined, she worked hard as heck, and she should enjoy the fruits of her labor.
Meghan is no contact with father so her week hasn’t been ruined by this.
Yeah, she likely grieved his absence from her life years ago.
Its all very surprising that this all suddenly happened and it being serious enough to remove the leg.
Anyway he was invited to the wedding but chose the press over her and sold her out. Meghan owns him nothing
Sorry, but this man has the British media conveniently present and rolling video at every medical and weather-related “emergency.” As the kids say, “Pics, or it didn’t happen.”
Mr Markle has his son and Caroline Graham. He betrayed his daughter regularly since 2018 to punish her and cash in on her fame. It was never one regrettable lapse it was repeated betrayal being willingly interviewed by haters like Morgan, Wootton, Campbell and the Fail. He knew exactly what he was doing. He even had a YouTube show thrashing Meghan for money. His grifter son now also does the same on YouTube. The Fail and them have joined forces to trash Meghan to make coin and bully her. It is sad but constant betrayal can’t be overlooked because there is no trust there anymore.
Interesting how this “emergency “ happened right as Meghan’s new show launched. Curiously an army of bots was launched all over to call Meghan “heartless” for premiering her show while her “poor father” was in the hospital. Just like Meghan was supposed to postpone her wedding when her “poor father” had a heart attack (allegedly). I wonder what the Fail and the Unroyals will do once Toxic finally kicks the bucket and they will no longer have him to bash Meghan over the head? As for Toxic, if he really is sick, he has other people around to look after him and his other daughter can fly over to see about him. Maybe Dan Wootton and Tom Sucks can drop in as well.
Yeah, all these Whingeing Markles do is moan and cry about how Meghan left their sour faces behind. They are soooooo pathetic!
As for Pervy Dan Wooden, anyone notice how he’s using Meghan to try to slowly get himself back in the game? Clearly he wasn’t cancelled hard enough…
I am surprised Dan Wootton can concentrate given he is being sued over catfish allegations by a former colleague.
Dan Wootton denies catfishing claim by ‘former colleague’ – BBC News https://share.google/qrO4ieEA54TzncMX8
I’d forgotten Dan Wootton existed until I read this! I wish I could go back to being blissfully ignorant, but at least it is delightful to hear he’s being sued.
@Msiam, the timing didn’t even occur to me, but that’s such a good point. His medical “emergencies” always seem to happen when Meghan has something big going on! What a useless POS this man is. And what a disappointment to Meghan that this is what he’s turned into.
Meghan is not obligated to contact her father not after all the things he did to her. If this is true, I do question whether Toxic Tom is being looked after properly by his son and Caroline Graham. For his leg to turn black means they were neglecting his health.
Oh well.
The typical tale of decline of an elderly know-it-all narcissist with his hand out saying “where’s mine” listening to his nasty older children who are just like him. Although. “Samantha” – the middle name she started going by only after the British press told her her real name, Yvonne, was too low class does seem to be irritated Jr has Sr in the Philippines and likely out of Samantha’s ability to grift.
In spare, Harry talks about how Tom showed up at the first Thanksgiving after the relationship was outed, in a private secure home lent to them in LA by friends because Doria’s house was under siege, and laid out copies of all the papers and stared talking about what they were going to get out of this and what he was going to get out of this and laying out plans for them all to cooperate with the press. After showing signs of paranoia and illness for years. And when Meghan told him they weren’t going to do anything like that, he stormed out.
Wow I bet Tom wanted lavish spreads in Hello, Majesty magazines, a weekly column with the Fail, his own calendar, endorsements. I have always thought he resented being off screen as a camera man and wanted to be centre stage as THE star getting all the attention.
People magazine has this story on their website and they let the hate comments from derangers in about meghan.
Why didn’t Thomas Jnr not realise his father’s foot circulation especially as ye lives with him as his career ? I just. Don’t understand how he allowed it to get soo worse that he had to gave amputation.
Meghan never hears directly from this man and he doesn’t even pretend to to to contact her. Instead the entire world hears about his latest medical emergency from Caroline Graham, the menopausal Olivia Nuzzi from the Daily Fail. What exactly is she supposed to do? Send a card and flowers, so he can pass it on to some tabloid? Interesting how his crisis always coincides with major dates on Meghan’s calendar. So if she aired her special next week, would they have held off on this? This man has lied so many times so who knows what actually happened.
Despite having moved to the other side of the planet it seems Karma never lost Sr.’s address. Like anyone is supposed to give a rat’s arse what happens to this malignant growth? I call it Karma but it’s also self-inflicted: No exercise, bad diet, too much beer and too many smokes.
I think Meghan would’ve reached out, if the tabloid media was not embedded with him. He made a deal with the devil for money, now he has to deal with the consequences. By the way, I don’t believe there was any emergency. I believe they scheduled the surgery to coincide with Meghan’s show release date? They’re not fooling anyone but the derangers. I’m sure this will come out, because Scammy can’t keep anything to herself.
I think the Sussexes need to shut this down once and for all. Get the State Department involved.They should sue Graham for elder abuse and have Markle declared unfit. He probably moved to the Philippines to escape any jurisdiction.
Why is the reporter living with this man?? This is nuts. What exactly is going on here?
This is a tom problem, not a Meghan problem. He should have thought about the consequences of his actions before he set out to destroy his daughter.
I will forever find it puzzling that the British press keeps acting like she needs to see her father who has called her out of her whole name for 8 years. They are in essence saying she should just do it and be bullied, sold out, etc. That man would have sold every picture of her children if she had sent them. I feel bad for her since cutting off your family is a huge thing and I am sure this wasn’t just because of Harry, but because of how he handled her his whole life, how he handled his life, how her half sister and brother treated her all of these years. You would hope that man wakes up and realizes he’s a garbage person and should just apologize, but I expect next week they will show him in a wheelchair, missing a limb, and saying how Meghan is heartless.
Dont give irrational people any thought. The whole point is to bully and humiliate her for daring to leave before they could push her out themselves. that’s all this is. It’s personal for them, and they have a willing participant in her narcisistic father and ghoulish siblings. The Daily Mail has been embedded with the Markles and feeding him lies, flattering him, god knows what now for 8 years. This is a personal, long term project that has cost god knows how much money. Meghan couldn’t reach out to him if she wanted to. It would be a security risk to her, to Harry, to her children to seek any contact. The cruelty is the point. The DM media are people who bully people to suicide and laugh about it. They are seriously pissed that their efforts to do harm to the Sussexes haven’t worked. That’s all.
I pray that every God in the heavens sends Meghan (and Harry) the wisdom they’ll need to deal with this.
I feel she has no choice but to go see him, if it’s all true in the first place, that is. Her love for her father endures, I’m certain, despite his appalling behaviour towards her.
The sheer fact that he is living with a member of the British media means there is absolutely no possibility Meghan can get near him with a ten foot pole. It’s a complete non-starter, which should be obvious to all of these idiots.
The evil part of me wishes she’d send a photo of two kids who resemble Archie and Lili and see how fast it leaks.
Wow. Caroline Graham meet Olivia Nuzzi. Journalistic ethics are dead. 😠
She’s disgusting. I think she’s doing whatever it takes to get Markle to do what she wants for the tabloid. She’s obviously his handler.
How much money is the Fail spending on this man? JFC. No one cares about him. No one. And they’re paying for a a reporter to live overseas solely to cover him?? Like, they actually have a “Thomas Markle” beat? Ridiculous
Meghan needs to stay away. The derangers are scary and she could put herself at risk. Her father would not stop the harassment and badmouth her to the media.