Meghan Markle's half-sister, Samantha Grant, talks about the "cashing" of the royal family: "We must all survive"

Meghan Markle's half-sister, Samantha Grant, does not mind "cashing" on her brother's last role The 53-year-old Briton appeared Monday on "Good Morning Britain" to discuss the alleged relationship tense of the former star of "Suits" with their father, Thomas Markle, former director of Hollywood lighting.

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" I have worked in the media most of my life and in the field of broadcasting, "Grant said. "So, because my sister is suddenly royal is not a motive for me to stop doing all this.Let's face it, we all have to survive." Money makes the world go round. So if you want to call it the cashing, that's fine.

"But I think that no one in the media would refuse a salary to talk about the royal family and as a family we do not are not subject If you want to call it "cashing", I think that's a bit silly.

Grant added, "For someone to say," Oh, you should not take money, you should refuse a paycheck, "tell your boss that you do not want salary for interviewing because it cash. "

Grant also revealed that Markle is now a member of the royal family, that does not mean she should" stop living ".

"Why would I stop living because we have a family problem? said Grant. "Coming back to the issue of cashing, the media are making billions of dollars of social problems and talking about royalty, I do not see how we are different, no one has the right to do it. author on our life experiences. "

"We are all individuals with our own life experience, and with all the respect we have, it's not just Meg, we have the right to share that, we have the right to to be open, if we can shed light on some problems.I do not think that there is anything wrong with that, it is not derogatory, it is not harmful. "

Grant's appearance at the UK morning show comes after she blasted her royal brother on July 18 via Twitter for her "cold" behavior towards their father.

Grant said that she regretted her explosive diatribe "to a degree."

"Life is very short," she argued. "I felt like something was going to happen to him, and he passed away, I do not think any of us could live with the fact that he's dead unhappy and he's n & # 39; There was no closing in. I believe in her heart that she would like that too. "

" Of course, as you can imagine, he is 74 years old and we all know that life is short, "she continued. "So, given the circumstances in the last few months since the wedding, I think that he just wants to really kiss him, and have some closure on the distance … and let him know that he's not sure." he really loves him, he sincerely had a heart attack and I was very shocked that the world was making fun of that or making fun of him, he really went through a difficult time. "

Despite his seemingly troubled relationship with Markle, Grant may have been busy preparing for his close-up in the last few days and Grant would have secured a spot in the English version of "Celebrity Big Brother" in what Viacom-owned Channel 5, Qualifies as "Eye of the Storm."

The report comes just two months after Markle tied the knot with Prince Harry in May. Before the wedding, Grant would have staged paparazzi photos for their father and made spontaneous remarks to Piers Morgan, suggesting that Harry would be better off marrying someone else.

Grant would collect a six-figure salary from reality A television series.

When she was in a hurry if she appeared in the popular show, Grant replied, "Well, I'll tell you, but then I should kill you then … I do not want to end up in the locks and stocks very frankly. It would not have become. "

The British season of" Celebrity Big Brother "is scheduled to start shooting in August, the show's representatives did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

In 2017, Grant made headlines when Vanity Fair reported that she was writing a memoir entitled "Princess Pushy's Diary Sister" Grant confirmed the manuscript to Fox News in January

"My relationship with my sister during a moment was really hurt because of the perceptions that existed, "she said at the time." And I must say that my book is not what all these people say … It's just because the world is "arrogant" that does not mean it's a slap … I was making fun of the tabloids. [19659005] "And I think she thought I was slamming it and writing a nasty saying everything … My sister is not aggressive." I mocked the media and tabloids by choosing this title. purpose is really to show how beautiful and incredible it is, I hope we both laugh. "

A source who told People magazine that Markle had no contact with her older sister for more than a decade – a request that Grant categorically denied Grant says she and her family are new to the honor and it can be difficult to deal with Global interest in their personal lives.

"As much as I love and respect Meg, she has security and a publicist and can be protected from all that," Grant said. "She and Harry can tell the media to stop. The rest of the family does not have that luxury. I like it, [but] she may not want me to say anything.

"I refuse to be a victim of the media. I will not let them denigrate me, embarrass me personally and professionally and not defend myself … I can only hope that she would respect and understand that … In fact, if I am Was Meg, I probably would have put something in there for there to be There was some kind of protective mechanism in place where the family could not be tortured so much.

Fox News & # 39; Julius Young contributed to this report.