bitchy | Jobless Justine Bateman wrote a whole Substack piece about the Sussexes

It’s so crazy that we spent years not hearing anything from Justine Bateman, to the point where most people forgot she existed, and now suddenly she’s styled herself into a right-wing commentator who pops up once a month to hate on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. My guess is that Justine learned the same thing that Piers Morgan, Jeremy Clarkson & all of the British loons learned years ago: that “hating on the Sussexes” got them more attention than they’d ever had before. Back in January, Justine threw a tantrum because Meghan, who was born & raised in LA, volunteered at various charities during the Southern California wildfires. Justine called the Sussexes “disaster tourists” for… volunteering in Meghan’s hometown. Justine got so much attention for that. So now she’s written a whole-ass Substack about Meghan and the “Victim Olympics Road.”

Justine Bateman feels like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have turned playing the “victims” into an Olympic sport. The “Family Ties” alum slammed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in a new post shared to Substack over the weekend, which she titled, “The Problem With Meghan Markle: It’s Not What She’s Doing, It’s the Victim Olympics Road She Took to Get There.”

“The problem with Meghan Markle (and her husband, Harry) is that every opportunity they have explored or exploited over the past few years has been due to their very aggressive Victim Olympics campaign,” Bateman wrote. Bateman, 59, argued that there is an “immense” difference in acting that way “two years ago and doing it now” — years after they left the UK and stepped down as working members of the royal family.

“It’s 2025, and no one wants to see victims anymore,” she wrote. “No one wants to watch someone playact at something they didn’t earn. No one wants to go along with another’s ‘narrative’ anymore.”

Bateman, who even created a custom gold medal with “Victim Olympics” written on the ribbon, went over some of the accusations Meghan and Harry have made about the royals –– including that someone allegedly questioned their son’s skin color and that they were “not being protected” from media narratives.

“Meghan and Harry has the luck of societal timing with their cries of abuse at the hands of others. 2020-2024 was truly the Victim Olympics Era,” she quipped. The “Violet” author wrote that the “gold medals” they won include their $100 million deal with Netflix, a reported $20 million four-book deal with Penguin Random House and Markle’s now-defunct $20 million deal with Spotify.

“The book deal was not because Harry is an incredible writer, the Spotify deal was not because either of them are beautiful orators or fascinating interviewers, and the Netflix deal was not because they are notable showrunners or producers,” she claimed. “These were simply the spoils of them crying out to anyone who would listen about the ‘injuries’ they had sustained.”

However, Bateman cautioned the couple that they now have to “earn [their] spot,” because it’s been five years since people began listening to their story. The public doesn’t want to listen to people who bemoaned their lack of privacy, and yet take every opportunity to be extremely public with whatever they’re doing. They are tired of seeing a couple who hated the Royal Family so much that they burned the bridge between them to ashes, only to ferociously cling to the titles they had as former members of that Royal Family.”

Bateman summarized her post by arguing that Markle, 43, and Harry, 40, have been “riding the fumes of a past Victim Era, in a new era now where victimhood has fallen far out of favor.”

“I believe everyone has a basket of skills and talents. I don’t believe either Meghan or Harry has taken the time to discover what is in their baskets,” she concluded. “If they were to take some time away, to enrich themselves and discover who they truly are, I think some interesting things could emerge from them.”

[From Page Six]

Before With Love, Meghan even came out, I expressed my surprise that the Windsors and their media handlers were crashing out so badly in advance of a little Netflix show about cooking and entertaining. It’s even worse now that WLM is out and it’s a success. Again, take a step back and think about this: Spare, which was released in January 2023, was the last time Harry said one “negative” word about his family. Meghan hasn’t said one word about her husband’s family since 2022. They were and are perfectly entitled to tell their stories about the Windsors and the violent hate machine which is still churning against them, but they haven’t said anything in over two years. Meghan HAS moved on, she’s doing this sweet little show where she cooks for her friends and these people are still screaming, crying and throwing up about it. As for Justine… this bitch needs a hobby. Writing this piece is such jobless behavior.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images and Fox News.