Sarah Ferguson has revealed that hardly anyone asks her if she’s okay after her ex-husband Prince Andrew’s scandals.
The Duchess of York appeared on Australia’s Kyle and Jackie O Show on Friday to promote her new novel.
During the interview, host Kyle Sandilands asked her how she was doing in the wake of the Prince Andrew drama and media storm. The Duchess still lives with Andrew despite being divorced.
“Friendship and loyalty is solidarity and we all have that, but you are the first person ever to ask me on air how I am,” the Duchess said.
Her answer was apt similar to an answer Meghan Markle once gave to ITV journalist Tom Bradby, in which she emotionally revealed that ‘not many people have asked if I’m okay’ and spoke about the challenges of motherhood.
The Duchess of York said she was “very strong and feels good, but maybe my body should keep up with my mind.”
Sarah ‘Fergie’ Ferguson (pictured) was asked about the scandals surrounding Prince Andrew on KIIS FM’s Kyle & Jackie O Show on Friday
Meghan Markle emotionally revealed that ‘not many people have asked if I’m okay’ and spoke about the challenges of motherhood in a 2019 interview
She also evaded a question from Sandilands about a report suggesting she and Andrew were ‘afraid’ to leave their home, the Royal Lodge on the Windsor estate, in case they were kicked out in favor of the Prince and Princess of Wales and their family.
Andrew, who has lost official duties after being forced to quit over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, shares the 30-room, £30 million mansion with his ex-wife.
King Charles believes the property should be given a new purpose, but Andrew, who took over the late Queen Mother’s long-term home and poured up to £7m of his own fortune into renovations, refuses to budge .
The Duchess of York also spoke out about cyberbullying and brought up television presenter Phillip Schofield, who was at the center of controversy after having an affair with his younger male colleague on This Morning.
“Back to the bullying and cyberbullying, it’s so hard,” she said.
And Phillip Schofield summed it up when he said, “There’s a human being at the end of this” and I think it’s hard, it’s hard when you can’t say much and just have to keep going.
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Kyle Sandilands (pictured) asked her how she’s doing after her ex-husband Prince Andrew was stripped of his titles, military ties and royal patronage last year.
Fergie appeared to side with British TV presenter Philip Schofield (pictured), who was at the center of controversy after an affair with his younger male colleague on This Morning
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“So I’m like, ‘Okay, now shoot me again?'”
Fergie spoke fondly of her late mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, and how she was more of a mother to her than her birth mother.
“I was lucky enough to have the Queen’s best friend and mother-in-law, she was more my mother than my own mother,” she said.
Fergie spoke fondly of her late mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth, and how she was more of a mother to her than her biological one.
And at the end she said, ‘The last thing I have to say to you, Sarah, is to be yourself and keep being kind, kindness is what we all need.'”
After Queen Elizabeth’s death last year, Fergie took in her last two beloved corgi dogs.
‘The [dogs] are very good, Muick and Sandy, they think I run with gravy, so they love me, they are special dogs, I never knew how good corgis are,” she said.
“I recently went to see all the other corgis in the corgi grave at Frogmore.”
The Duchess of York still lives with her ex-husband Prince Andrew (both pictured)