Meghan Markle Breaks Down in Tears Over Death Threat: 'Are My Babies Safe?'

Meghan Markle teared up when she discussed online death threats aimed at her, which caused concern for her young family, during a newly released episode of her Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan.

A clip, taken from the fifth episode, shows the royal being comforted by Harry as she discussed hate directed at her online that she says was stirred up by tabloid reporting. The segment quickly went viral after being shared on the social media platform TikTok.

In a section of the episode looking at a targeted hate campaign launched against the duchess on Twitter, she explained to interviewers: "I think for people to really understand, you know, when you plant a seed that is so hateful, what it can grow into," she said.

"Just a couple of days ago, I was going through the manual for our security team at home, and on one of the pages that I happened to flip to, it was about online monitoring. And they're like: 'If you see a tweet like this, please report it to the head of security immediately.' [...] It just said: 'Meghan just needs to die. Someone needs to kill her. Maybe it should be me,'" she added.

Meghan said that this is what's "actually out there in the world because of people creating hate."

"I'm a mom," she said, as tears welled up. "It's my real life. You know? And that's the piece where you see it and you go: 'You are making people want to kill me. It's not just a tabloid. It's not just some story. You are making me scared.'

The duchess then discussed how these threats affected her and caused concern not only for her safety but also for her young children: Archie, 3 and Lilibet, 1.

"And like that night, to be up and down in the middle of the night looking down my hallway like, 'Are we safe? Are the doors locked? Is security on?' That's real! 'Are my babies safe?' And you created it for what? Because you're bored or because it sells your papers or it makes you feel better about your own life? It's real what you're doing," she said.

TikTok user meghmarkle, who posted the clip, wrote a caption reading: "THIS IS SICK meghan was scared for her life because of the media."

One commenter added: "It was their reality and scary as hell ... I don't think she was being paranoid!!"

While another posted: "'Are my babies safe?' ohh that absolutely broke me?she did not deserve absolutely any of this."

Throughout the Harry & Meghan docuseries, the couple's relationship with the tabloid media and how it affected their life in Britain and continues to today, despite moving to the U.S, serves as a main thread.

During the six episodes, the couple discussed the racism they felt was visible in some of the reporting when they first started dating. Harry also addressed the constant pursuit from photographers, and Meghan recounted her lengthy legal battle with the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a private letter written by her to her father.

The letter, she revealed, was written on the advice of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles. After extracts were published without her permission, the royal sued Associated Newspapers, proprietor of the Mail on Sunday and Daily Mail, eventually winning the case after a two-year battle.

Thursday's release of Harry & Meghan: Part 2 marks the final release of episodes in the six-episode limited series. The project was produced as part of Harry and Meghan's multi-million dollar content creation deal with streaming giant Netflix, which reported that the first part of the series became its biggest documentary release of all time.

In total, 81.55 million hours of the show were streamed around the globe in the first four days since the show's premiere on December 8.

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