Sharon Stone’s praise of Harry and Meghan has resurfaced as the couple reel from a bombshell magazine exposé about their alleged behaviour.
The 66-year-old actress hailed the royal couple who resident in the same California community as the Academy Award-nominated star.
Stone - who received an Oscar nod for her role in the 1995 Martin Scorsese crime drama Casino - has previously come out in support of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Speaking to Hello magazine in 2020, Stone said: "The thing about them, which is so great, is that they didn't come here to live off of our community, they came here to be a part of our community.
"They're a part of our community, they become a part, a giving, caring, participating part of our community. They're not here, like 'Would you like to kiss my butt?'"
It comes as Harry and Meghan are said to have been left “distressed” by Vanity Fair’s piece to mark five years since they relocated to Montecito, Santa Barbara, after stepping down as working senior members of the British Royal Family.
The profile in the magazine - headlined “American Hustle” - claimed the Duchess of Sussex could be ‘”really, really awful” when things appeared not to go her way.
Citing multiple sources who have worked for the Sussexes in that time, they describe former Suits actress Meghan as initially being “warm and effusive” towards employees before turning “cold and withholding toward the person she perceived to be responsible” when something went wrong.
They further claimed that Meghan - who has recently delayed her new Netflix series following the devastating Los Angeles wildfires - would yell at staff, without raising her voice on "any given Tuesday".
Meanwhile, another insider alleged that Meghan, 43, and Harry, 40, "don't know what change the world means" after their Spotify podcast series, Archetypes was cancelled back in 2023.
In a reference to Harry’s mother Princess Diana's royal work before her untimely passing in 1997, the source added, "Diana walked amongst land mines. Meghan couldn't even say the word sl*t".
They added that Meghan and Harry "want to be people who are looked at as people who want to change the world”.
The Vanity Fair article branded Prince Harry a “hapless if well-meaning man" who is said to have considered interviewing sociopaths including Vladimir Putin.
According to the publication, the younger brother of Prince William said: "I have very bad childhood trauma. Obviously. My mother was essentially murdered. What is it about me that didn't make me one of the bad guys?"
The outlet also claims that since moving to Montecito in Santa Barbara County, Meghan and Harry have become known as "the prince and the starlet" and painted as "local villains". The community are said to be disgruntled that their presence has enticed people who are not from the area to visit the town, with one of the results being that walk in bookings at a popular steakhouse have become next to impossible.
