Meghan Markle's Father Says She Showed 'No Concern' About His Heart Attack

Meghan Markle's father says his daughter "showed no concern" about his heart attack and "didn't say she loved" him, a court document reveals.

Thomas Markle was justifying his decision to hand a letter she sent him to U.K. tabloid The Mail on Sunday.

The newspaper published substantial extracts revealing she accused him of breaking her heart "into a million pieces."

However, Meghan then sued The Mail on Sunday for privacy and breach of copyright at the High Court in London.

Thomas Markle's witness statement to the court read: "The letter was not an attempt at a reconciliation. It was a criticism of me.

"The letter didn't say she loved me. It did not even ask how I was. It showed no concern about the fact I had suffered a heart attack and asked no questions about my health.

"It actually signaled the end of our relationship, not a reconciliation."

Thomas Markle told his daughter's tabloid privacy lawsuit that her friends had "vilified" him in interviews with People magazine, mentioning the letter in the process.

He said the only way to set the record straight was for The Mail on Sunday to print the letter, proving her inner circle had wrongly painted him as "uncaring and cold-hearted."

The award-winning Hollywood lighting director said the magazine article wrongly painted the letter as an attempt by Meghan to patch up their differences.

Meghan's letter was sent in the summer after her May 2018 royal wedding, which Thomas Markle missed after he first was caught staging pictures with the paparazzi and then had a heart attack.

He was taken to hospital but told the court he faced claims he lied about the health incident.

Thomas Markle said: "The [People] article had given an inaccurate picture of the contents of the letter and my reply and had vilified me by making out that I was dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted, leaving a loyal and dutiful daughter devastated.

"I had to defend myself against that attack."

He added: "It was important to me in setting the record straight about me and about the tone and content of the letter that [Mail on Sunday journalist Caroline Graham] should not just describe what Meg had written but that she should actually quote from and reproduce parts of the letter.

"If the public didn't see the letter and read what it said in its own words, I did not think anyone would believe me.

"At that time, there were articles saying I was a liar, including that I had lied about my heart attack, even on TV, and there were people saying I didn't go to Meg's first wedding when I did.

"The text of the letter proves that what was said in People magazine about the letter was wrong."

He also argues that Meghan must have given her friends permission to tell People about the letter, which his daughter denies.

He said: "It seemed to me that the article had either been expressly authorized by Meg or she had at the very least known about and approved of its publication.

"I believed (and still believe) that Meghan wanted her account of the letter to be published."

A court filing by Meghan's lawyers reads: "It is a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father (the word 'pain' or 'painful' appears no fewer than five times), begging him to stop talking to the press.

"It is as good an example as one could find of a letter that any person of ordinary sensibilities would not want to be disclosed to third parties, let alone in a mass media publication, in a sensational context and to serve the commercial purposes of the newspaper."