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\"I can't tell you how frustrating it is to see that,\" he added, according to E! News and other outlets at the panel. \"She's getting a raw deal there. It's irresponsible.\"

Clooney's comments come after British tabloids have labeled Markle \"Duchess Difficult,\" several also reporting on a private letter from her to her estranged father, as well.

The actor added about being godfather to her baby, \"No, I'm now a father of twins, I've got enough.\"

Clooney is not the only public figure to speak out about what's happening.

Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson also weighed in, sharing similar sentiments of concern, though not directly connecting the online bullying to the Duchess of Sussex and Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge. Ferguson wrote a candid letter in Hello! magazine on Monday, taking aim at what she calls the “sewer” of social media.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive for tonight’s @BAFTA Awards ceremony #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/lfpSk9rE4e

— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) February 10, 2019

“It’s time to confront head on the fact that much of social media has become a sewer,” she wrote. \"Women, in particular, are constantly pitted against and compared with each other in a way that reminds me of how people tried to portray Diana and me all the time as rivals, which is something neither of us ever really felt.\"

\"She absolutely is referring to the treatment of Meghan and Kate,\" royal contributor Imogen Lloyd Webber told “GMA.” \"Certainly there are parallels between the relationship that Kate and Meghan have and Diana and Fergie had.”

Also, a handful of Markle's closest friends spoke out to People magazine recently about the \"global bullying.\"

“We worry about what this is doing to her and the baby,” a former co-star of Markle's said. ”It’s wrong to put anyone under this level of emotional trauma, let alone when they’re pregnant.”

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