The A-list actress who called out Meghan Markle has quietly deleted the evidence.

Brooke Shields recently addressed that moment she interrupted Meghan Markle during an awkward onstage panel last year.

But now, it appears those comments have been quietly erased from the internet.

In case you missed it, the Duchess of Sussex and the actor were on a panel for International Women's Day at South by Southwest when Meghan started sharing a story we've heard her tell before: her feminist awakening at age 11, when she wrote to Procter & Gamble asking them to change a sexist soap ad.

Speaking to King Charles' goddaughter India Hicks on her podcast, The India Hicks Podcast, Shields recalled the moment on stage with Markle.

"She said, 'I didn't think only women wash dishes. It wasn't fair. So I wrote to the company… when I was 11, I wrote my first letter and when I was 11' and she kept saying she was 11… She writes to the company, they change the commercial," Shields said.

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Shields admitted she found Meghan's tale "too precious" and was worried the Duchess was boring the audience.

"I was like, they're not going to want to sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious," she said.

And naturally, the world lapped it up.

Those two little words, "too precious", from Shields, instantly fuelled an online backlash against Markle. Not only is it a phrase that other famous women have not used to describe the former working Royal, but it gave voice to a sentiment about Markle that has been bubbling away since she and Prince Harry moved to America,

However, if you listen to the full podcast interview, Shields insists she wasn't trying to take Markle down a peg. She just wanted to lighten the mood, because let's be real, Markle can get a bit serious sometimes.

And as an entertainment industry veteran, Shields is likely a good judge of a crowd.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Katie Couric and Brooke Shields speak onstage during the 2024 SXSW Conference and Festival. Image: Getty.

"I was trying not to be rude," she explained. "I wanted to be funny because it was so serious."

She described the moment she interrupted: "I go, 'Excuse me, I'm so sorry, I've got to interrupt you there for one minute.' I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious."

"I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we're different. When I was 11, I was playing a prostitute."

Shields was referring to her controversial role in the 1978 film Pretty Baby, in which she plays a child sex worker.

Apparently, the crowd appreciated the joke. Shields said the room felt "more relaxed" after her cheeky remark, which is exactly what she was going for.

In an interesting twist, less than two weeks later, the link to Hicks' interview, 'Brooke Shields is 60 and Sexy' no longer appears on her website.

Instead, a Substack page redirects with an error message: "Page not found."

Almost all clips from that section of the podcast have been scrubbed from online.

Neither Shields or Hicks appear to have addressed the apparent deletion. However, Hicks previously praised her conversation with the actor.

"Just before her 60th birthday, I sat down with the ever-iconic Brooke Shields. She had just stepped out of the shower — entirely unfiltered — sipping a glass of David's @idlespirits," Hicks wrote.

"What followed was an utterly Brooke-ish conversation. From being cast as a child prostitute to becoming a powerhouse CEO and advocate for women's voices. She doesn't hold back about age, ambition, or motherhood, and I love her for it.

"The entire conversation was messy, funny, heartfelt, and completely real. Just like Brooke."

The deletion hasn't gone unnoticed, and the rumour mill believes the royal family is to blame.

Hicks isn't just in the family, she's in the royal family. Her mother was a lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth. Her godfather is King Charles. And she was a bridesmaid at Diana and Charles' wedding.

We'll never know for sure, but maybe a royal tap on the shoulder took place…

Shields and Hicks during their chat. Image: Instagram/indiahicksstyle.

Shields' criticism was valid. It's fair enough to worry that Markle's earnest tone might lose the audience, especially considering there was some backlash after her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan aired.

The highly-rated Netflix series (which will soon return for a second season) was beloved by some fans, while others commented that it felt too pretentious and too much like Markle was playing a character and spouting rehearsed lines.

But to play devil's advocate here, can you blame her?

It makes perfect sense that Markle would stick to sharing stories she's shared before on a public panel.

Everything she says or does is dissected. Every story is rehearsed. Every sentence is PR-approved.

Because one slip-up? The trolls would be waiting. And the media? Well, they'd have a field day.

And honestly? That all sounds exhausting.

Feature image: Getty.