Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is standing up to support the Duchess of Sussex after she disclosed that the stress from all the media attention and criticism is getting to her.
Ocasio-Cortez defended Meghan Markle when the Duchess opened up about the difficulties of fame during a television interview.
The New York congresswoman tweeted a clip from the upcoming documentary, Harry & Meghan: An African Journey last Friday wherein Markle confessed to journalist Tom Bradby that all the fame and attention has taken its toll on her. Ocasio-Cortez quoted Markle on her tweet,
āThank you for asking, bc not many people have asked if Iām ok.ā
Ocasio-Cortez stated that she related to what the Duchess is experiencing and added,
āSudden prominence is a very dehumanizing experience. Thereās a part of your life that you lose, & it later dawns on you that youāll never get it back.ā
The congresswomanās tweet was greatly commended on social media, garnering over 184,100 likesĀ and 21,400 retweets at the time of posting this article.
āThank you for asking, bc not many people have asked if Iām ok.ā
Sudden prominence is a very dehumanizing experience. Thereās a part of your life that you lose, & it later dawns on you that youāll never get it back.
The people who treat you like a human make all the difference. https://t.co/w0XUI4O3bD
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 18, 2019
Markle shared the vulnerabilities that comes with her current lifestyle, āI would say, look, any woman, especially when they are pregnant, youāre really vulnerable, and so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a newborn, you knowā¦and especially as a woman, itās really, itās a lot,ā
The Duchess also appreciated Bradby for asking her about her well-being,Ā āThank you for asking, because not many people have asked if Iām OK,ā Markle said, āBut itās a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.ā
When the journalist asked her if she was truly struggling at the moment, Markle said yes.
Markle and Prince Harry took legal action earlier this month against a British publication after releaseing a private letter that the Duchess wrote to Thomas Markle, the Meghanās estranged father. Harry stated that he greatly feared that his wife would share the same fate as his mother, the late Princess Diana who was harassed by the paparazzi before her untimely death back in 1997 in a car accident.
Prince Harry shared that he has already seen what can happen to a person that he loves when they are commoditized to the extent of which they are not treated as a person anymore.
āI lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces,ā he added.
Harry & Meghan: An African Journey will air tonight (October 20th) on the U.K. network ITV and Wednesday on ABC.