According to her book, their father Thomas Markle later announced he had been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack before the wedding that took place on May 19, 2018.
Samantha was in the U.K. at the time and describes that time period in her book saying, “I was worried, because I had not heard from him for several hours through early evening, and I was speaking to him twice a day, prior to that.”
“I called friends whom I knew spoke to him periodically, but who lived in another country, and no one could get a hold of him.”
“I could feel my heart pounding, and I knew something was tragically wrong. I wanted to call the police in Mexico, or anybody just to have somebody track him down.”
She went on to say, “I didn’t hear from him until May 13, when he let me know that he was in a small charity hospital in Mexico after having a small heart attack, and all they could do there was stabilize him and his doctor had him go to Chula Vista Hospital in San Diego.”
Thomas Markle has said gone on record saying he had two heart attacks, and in December 2018 gave the Mail on Sunday his medical records to prove his claims.
A court filing from Meghan’s privacy and copyright lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday puts the date of one of the heart attacks as May 14 and states, “On the same day, Mr Markle began to feel very ill with shortness of breath and chest pains, he believes from the stress of the situation. Very late on Monday 14 May he went to the Chula Vista Hospital in California where he was held in critical care for an hour, and later diagnosed with suspected congestive heart failure.”
Meghan’s subsequent text messages to her father were revealed in a separate court filing and show that on May 15, she wrote, “I’ve been reaching out to you all weekend but you’re not taking any of our calls or replying to any texts…Very concerned about your health and safety and have taken every measure to protect you but not sure what more we can do if you don’t respond…Do you need help? Can we send the security team down again? I’m very sorry to hear you’re in the hospital but need you to please get in touch with us…”
A text from Thomas to his daughter the following day read, “I’ve done nothing to hurt you Meghan or anyone else I know nothing about 20 phone calls I’m sorry my heart attack is there any inconvenience for you.”
The book states, “He had a stent planted in his heart, and a filter to prevent clots from getting into it, but the stent procedure would allow him to be up and moving more quickly, and was a less invasive procedure than heart surgery many years ago, when open-heart surgery was performed.”
“I wanted to get out there, but at the time I had no way of getting out there and wheelchair accessibility would be a problem on short notice.”
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