![]() ![]() Looking back, Harry recalled facing "institutional gaslighting," as Meghan-seemingly referring to the media spotlight-said she was being "fed to the wolves." As she noted, "Everyone in the world knew where we were." ![]() Meanwhile, Meghan addressed security fears for their family amid their departure from royal life. 12, Harry admitted, "I wonder what would've happened to us had we not got out when we did.I said, 'We need to get out of here.'" In the preview, released by Netflix on Dec. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who stepped down as senior royals in 2020, are reflecting on that time period in a new trailer for the second half of their docuseries, Harry & Meghan. The idea is that it’s a situation when a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist deems their patient delusional when in fact, they were telling the truth all along.Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are addressing their swift exit from the royal family. And it was based on Martha Mitchell herself,” Alvergue says. “The Martha Mitchell Effect is a condition that was coined by Harvard psychologist Brendan Mayer in the late ’80s. There was a good synergy there.”Īnd as for the title? Alvergue explains its meaning. ![]() “The miniseries really cast a spotlight on her, which actually was really great for our film, too, because I feel like people may have seen that miniseries and then they thought, ‘Oh, I want to see the real Martha Mitchell’ and found us on Netflix. “It was just great to see Martha get the attention in such a huge way,” McClutchy comments. The Martha Mitchell Effect documentary was begun well before the arrival of the recent Starz miniseries Gaslit in which Julia Roberts plays Mitchell. Martha Mitchell died of multiple myeloma in 1976, at the age of 57. Smith comments about Martha Mitchell in a TV news report, with an unflattering picture of her over his shoulder. It’s really a tragic personal story in that sense.” And then John Mitchell chose Nixon over his wife, over the love of his life. “This story is really about the personal fallout for Martha in terms of her love affair with her husband. So, there was a competitiveness there that was happening and perhaps a jealousy that was happening,” McClutchy says. And Martha wanted John Mitchell’s attention. “It’s a love triangle in that Nixon wanted John Mitchell’s attention. The directors see the star-crossed Nixon-John Mitchell-Martha Mitchell relationship as a love triangle. John Mitchell ultimately abandoned his wife. But the smear campaign against her-and the evident zeal of television commentators to dismiss her as the outlandish “mouth that roared,” reduced her to caricature. History would prove her contentions correct, at least to most observers. Martha Mitchell consistently maintained that Nixon was responsible for the Watergate break-in and the coverup. Nixon and Mitchell’s wife, Martha Mitchell. But it’s kind of amazing that Martha wasn’t believed for so long.”Īttorney General John Mitchell during his swearing-in ceremony, flanked by Pres. And obviously he took orders from people above him in terms of that. It’s not that he would corroborate everything, because he doesn’t want to appear culpable. Although we did find an interview, which we don’t use in the film, of a reporter in the Czech Republic who asks King specifically about the incident. ambassador to the Czech Republic under Trump, would always deny it. “I think part of that is because Steve King, who was the bodyguard who eventually became the U.S. “Even though McCord confirmed it in 1975, the larger public was in a state of disbelief about that story until a couple of years ago,” Alvergue says. Watergate burglar James McCord, who had known and worked with the Mitchells at one point, later revealed that Martha’s account of being held captive was true. Martha eventually told reporters about her captivity, but the White House spread the story that she was mentally unstable and a drunk. A bodyguard, Steve King, allegedly kept her under wraps in that hotel room and yanked out a telephone cord when a reporter tried to reach her. When news of the burglary began to leak, the Mitchells were visiting California John Mitchell flew back to Washington and his wife would claim that she was held prisoner in a hotel room, on her husband’s orders, so she wouldn’t hear of the break-in or talk to the media. Whether or not Martha Mitchell had knowledge of it, her husband participated in planning meetings for the Watergate break-in and took part in the coverup. John Mitchell resigned as attorney general in 1972 to run Nixon’s reelection campaign. Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images ![]()
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