Janina Gavankar, one in all Meghan Markle’s longtime greatest mates, was on the stay taping for Chris Rock’s blockbuster Netflix present on Saturday evening – and watched because the comic skewered the Duchess of Sussex.
The actress, who has been a staunch defender of Prince Harry’s spouse and an in depth pal of hers for over 20 years, was at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theater to witness Rock make historical past for the streaming service’s first stay international streaming occasion.
Sources advised Page Six that Gavankar, 42, joined her good good friend Dave Chapelle backstage to observe the present within the VIP Green Room.
“Janina looked to be enjoying the show very much, she was standing up by the TV screens and laughing,” one witness mentioned.
During his set, Rock, 58, mocked the Sussexes’ Oprah Winfrey interview, the place they infamously claimed an unknown royal had raised “concerns” about “how dark” their child could be earlier than their son, Archie, was born.
The comedian joked that Markle was simply coping with some “in-law s***”.
“Like, who is this girl Meghan Markle? Seems like a nice lady – just complaining. Like, didn’t she hit the light-skinned lottery?” Rock mentioned as he launched into his diatribe, earlier than calling the royal household the “OGs of racism”.
Rock had finely honed his routine over the previous few months at quite a lot of gigs across the nation, together with at Radio City Music Hall in New York City again in October, the place he made the identical feedback about Markle and the royals. Sources mentioned Gavankar had been to earlier reveals, so she knew what to anticipate.
While speaking about Markle, Rock placed on a high-pitched voice to mock the Duke and Duchess.
“She’s complaining, I’m like, ‘What the f*** is she talking about? They’re so racist, they wanted to know how brown the baby was going to be,’” he mentioned.
“I’m like, ‘That’s not racist,’ cause’ even black people want to know how brown the baby gon’ be. S***. We check behind them ears.”
Rock additionally joked that Markle was “acting all dumb”.
“[She was] going on Oprah [and] saying, ‘I had no idea how racist they were.’ That’s the Royal Family, you didn’t Google those motherf***ers? They’re the original racists. They invented colonialism,” he mentioned on stage, including, “They invested in slavery like it was ‘Shark Tank.’”
Rock then claimed to know what Markle was “going through,” stating, “I know her dilemma: Black girl trying to be accepted by her white in-laws.”
He continued: “Oh, it’s hard. It’s so hard, it’s very hard – but it ain’t as hard as a white girl trying to be accepted by her black in-laws. Now that s*** is really hard!”
Gavankar was a visitor on the Sussexes’ marriage ceremony in May 2018. She additionally went on British TV after the Royal Family responded to the Oprah interview by saying “recollections may vary” of the couple’s claims of their hellish time behind palace partitions.
At the time, Gavankar hit again on the household’s claims they weren’t conscious of the total extent of Meghan’s struggles whereas she was a working royal member of the family.
“Though their ‘recollections may vary,’ ours don’t because we lived through it with them,” Gavankar mentioned, quoting straight from the Palace’s assertion. “And there are many emails and texts to support that.”
This story was initially revealed by Page Six and was reproduced with permission
Source: www.news.com.au
