Meghan Markle is rumored to be prepping the explosive Netflix ‘Cry Baby’ doc
Meghan Markle is said to be positioning herself for a very personal Netflix documentary that will document what insiders have said RadarOnline.com will explain to her her “seven years of woe.”
Meghan, 44, recently appeared with her husband Prince Harry, 41, at a high-profile Montecito event celebrating Beef season two, in which she was photographed warmly interacting with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and his wife Nicole Avant.
The appearance came just weeks after speculative relations between Meghan and the platform cooled following the quiet collapse of her lifestyle business As Ever and reports of distancing on social media by senior executives.
But now sources suggested the public display of closeness was far from incidental.
An insider told us: “Meghan sees this as a decisive shift in momentum – in her mind, she’s put herself back in a strong position when it comes to her partnership with Netflix.
‘After months of uncertainty, she now feels reassured that she still has real value to them, and that gives her much more confidence to take charge in the future.
“There is a growing sense among people close to the situation that she is preparing to share her story in a much more unfiltered and emotionally driven way than anything she has done before for Netflix.
“Rather than carefully curated projects, this would be something much more raw and personal – possibly a documentary-style series that walks through the challenges, pressures and setbacks she’s faced over the years in her own words and on her own terms. It will essentially be another crybaby performance from Meghan, but she has to make money somehow!”
The insider added: “There’s already talk that this could be taken as a deeply personal account of her time in the royal spotlight – the pressure, the fallout, the sense of isolation. It will attract the usual criticism she gets for ‘groaning’, but from Meghan’s perspective it’s about reclaiming her story and setting the record straight in her own words.”
The renewed confidence follows a turbulent period for the Sussexes, whose reported $100 million Netflix deal has produced mixed results.
While their 2022 docuseries Harry & Meghan became a record-breaking debut for the platform, but subsequent projects struggled to gain traction.
Meghan’s lifestyle series With love, Meghan has not been renewed for a third season, and other planned adaptations also remain in development territory.
Another source said: “Meghan has a very clear insight into what has resonated most with audiences so far – it’s the moments where she’s opened up about her own life and experiences that really cut through.
“She knows that when she focuses on that level of openness, it generates far more attention and engagement than the more polished, lifestyle-oriented projects she has tried to develop.
“From Netflix’s perspective, those kinds of deeply personal stories are the real value. They’re looking for content that sparks conversations on a global scale, something with emotional depth and a sense of accessibility that viewers don’t think they could get anywhere else. Compared to that, the lighter, more curated formats just don’t have the same impact or long-term appeal for them.”
Meghan hinted at the end of the “hardest seven years” of her life in a series of posts on her Instagram Stories in April.
The Duchess – a Leo – re-shared a message from an astrology report which said the zodiac signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius “ended the most difficult seven years of their lives on April 25”.
She also shared a post from the account ‘Spirit Daughter’, which described the past seven years as a time of ‘exhausting’ tension, during which her self-confidence and worth took a hit due to the conflict between her true self and public perception. The message suggested “pressure eases” after this date.
