A recent podcast episode featuring Brooke Shields, in which she commented on Meghan Markle’s storytelling style as too “precious,” has been taken down just one week after its release.

Shields appeared on a now-deleted episode of India Hicks’ podcast, where the two discussed their shared experience on a South by Southwest (SXSW) panel in March 2024. Though it was initially available earlier this month, the episode has since been removed from Hicks’ website. A link to the podcast now leads to a “page not found” notice, according to several reports.

Reflecting on the SXSW Panel with Meghan

During the episode, Shields recalled appearing on the SXSW panel titled “Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen,” moderated by Katie Couric. Meghan Markle was among the panelists and opened the discussion with a personal anecdote.

Shields remembered Markle recounting her story of writing a letter to a company at age 11, protesting a dish soap ad that implied only women wash dishes. Shields commented on the podcast that Markle’s story felt “too serious” for the setting.

“Katie asks the first question to Meghan and she talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women,” Shields said. “She starts telling a story about how when she was 11 – and she keeps saying, ‘Well, when I was 11, I saw this commercial and they were talking about how washing dishes was for women.’ And she said, ‘I didn’t think only women wash dishes. It wasn’t fair. So I wrote to the company.’”