Meghan Markle is sharing her thoughts about being labeled as “difficult,” revealing during a recent interview with Issa Rae that she is “particular” but that doesn’t make her difficult.
“I often find myself even in walking into a room, I’m particular,“ she explained. ”I think a high tide raises all ships, right? We’re all going to succeed. So let’s make sure it’s really great because it’s a shared success for everybody.”
She continued, “But I also know that I will find myself cowering and tiptoeing into a room where, I don’t know if you do the thing that I find the most embarrassing, when you’re saying a sentence, but the intonation goes up like it’s a question.”
“And I was just like, ‘Oh, my God, stop, stop, whispering and tiptoeing around it. Just say what it is that you need. You’re allowed to set a boundary. You’re allowed to be clear.’ It does not make you demanding. It does not make you difficult. Makes you clear,” she declared.
© GettyImagesIssa Rae says that some of her “favorite creatives, I’ve noticed that they’re very particular,” she admitted, reflecting on a situation she faced being called “particular.”
“You have control freak tendencies because you’re particular,” someone said to her. “But I was like, ‘That just means I have a point of view. That means that, you know, I have a particular taste and I appreciate that. Thank you.’ And so, for me, it just means that I have a sense of what I want. And so I have no issue claiming those things.”
