Meghan Markle has admitted she is “making mistakes and learning from them” in a new interview to promote her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, which dropped this week to less-than-glowing reviews.
“Every day, I’m learning so much as a founder. I’m taking baby steps and big strides at the same time, making mistakes and learning from them, and really working to find all the joy while diving into the creative process and the business,” she said at bookstore Godmothers near her home in Montecito, Calif. “There’s something energizing about being in my forties and turning my passion project into a business—and sharing that with the world.”
Markle also discussed her love of flower arranging in the interview, saying it was a “simple pleasure that I can get lost in.”
“Flower arranging sparks my creativity, allows me tangibly to get my hands in something that adds beauty, and connects me to nature,” she said. “My kids have jumped in to help me make arrangements, too, which makes it all the sweeter.”
Netflix said on Friday that it “has already completed filming” a second season of With Love, Meghan that will screen later this year.
The show has received harsh reviews.
Variety said: “The show plays out like a forced march, one in which Meghan’s guests must, as the price of getting to share an afternoon in a made-for-TV kitchen with her, praise her first.”
Time magazine said: “With each glossy new program, podcast, and lifestyle brand, the promise of authenticity has given way to an impersonal performance of perfection. With Love, Meghan might be the most performative example to date.”
Tina Brown, founding editor of the Daily Beast, called Markle “unbelievably inauthentic,” while Janice Min, founder of the Hollywood gossip newsletter The Ankler, joked that the show felt like it was filmed in a “mental institution for wealthy women” and that Markle’s guests looked like they were in “a hostage situation.”
A report in British tabloid the Sun cited a TV insider who said, “This may raise a few eyebrows, but one thing which Netflix love is controversy—and this show certainly created a lot of debate."
“Many were so scathing about the eight-part series that they thought there was no way it would get another season,” the source added. “But it seems the streamer is delighted with the chatter it’s created on both sides of the Atlantic this week.”
Netflix is also partnering with Meghan for As Ever, her “lifestyle brand dedicated to beautifully crafted essentials.”
