Samantha Markle half sister of Meghan Markleclaimed she faced “realistic death threats” and was “forced to relocate” due to backlash after the Sussexes’ Netflix documentary was released, according to recently filed court documents cited by Newsweek.

Samantha, who has a father with Meghan, initially filed a defamation lawsuit in 2022 against Meghan, claiming the duchess had made “despicable, hurtful and false” remarks in her interview with Oprah Winfrey and the documentary series Harry & Meghan ” from Netflix.

Samantha’s lawsuit alleges that Meghan described her as “an outsider, a liar and a … deceitful fame-seeking impostor with stingy intentions,” which Samantha says damaged her reputation.

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Meghan’s legal team defended her statements, arguing: “An implied or express statement that (Samantha) belongs to a hate group that spreads misinformation about Meghan is an opinion protected by the First Amendment.” Meghan won the original case; however, Samantha has since appealed the ruling, taking the case to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Meghan Markle’s sister ‘never belonged to a hate group’

Samantha’s lawyer Peter Ticktin argued: “There can be no doubt that Meghan Markle verbally attacked her sister Samantha Markle in her documentary.” Ticktin claimed Samantha, who uses a wheelchair, faced severe backlash from Sussex supporters and had to move for safety.

At the heart of Samantha’s case is a scene from the Netflix documentary in which Christopher Bouzy, a friend of Meghan and Harry, discussed the intense online harassment Meghan suffered from “people who were just not your typical trolls without quotation marks”.

“These are housewives, these are middle-aged Caucasian women,” Bouzy said, and claimed that “Samantha Markle was part of the group that spread a lot of this misinformation.”

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“You make people want to kill me.” It’s not just a tabloid. It’s not just a story. You scare the crap out of me,” the scene concluded.

Ticktin claimed that “(Samantha) has never been part of a disinformation group, has not trolled Meghan, has never been a part of any hate group, has never used the N-word on tweets, has never monetized has never tweeted hate against Meghan or done anything to make anyone want to kill Meghan or make Meghan angry because of such activity.”