Piers Morgan vows legal action over ‘fabricated’ claims in Earl Spencer’s Diana book
Piers Morgan has threatened legal action against Earl Spencer over claims in his new book about Princess Diana, accusing him of publishing “fabricated inaccuracies” about his time as a tabloid editor.
Piers Morgan says he will sue Earl Spencer over “fabricated inaccuracies” in his new book about his late sister, Diana, Princess of Wales.
The broadcaster has slammed claims made in Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, which hit shelves this week, as “brazen falsity” and “bullsh*t”.
Spencer’s book includes allegations about Morgan’s conduct as a tabloid editor, which the former Daily Mirror chief has furiously rebuked.
Speaking on his YouTube show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, he declared: “I can exclusively reveal on Uncensored that Earl Spencer’s book contains fabricated inaccuracies which will strike to the heart of his credibility.”
Morgan specifically targeted Spencer’s account of him being “surlily” uninvited from Diana’s funeral and his alleged involvement in publishing paparazzi photos of the Princess working out in a leotard.
Spencer wrote: “The only one who sounded surly, as opposed to merely confused or embarrassed, was Piers Morgan of the Mirror, who snarled with annoyance before he hung up.”
The book goes on to claim Morgan “must be feeling particular guilt” because, four years earlier, he and his Sunday Mirror counterpart “published photographs taken with hidden cameras by a gym owner” of Diana, leading to a £1 million legal settlement and £200,000 in charity donations from the Mirror Group.
Spencer also stated that Morgan was among four tabloid editors “named, shamed and photographed in an article looking at who might be held responsible for the paparazzi’s role” after Diana’s death.
Morgan hit back, calling the claims “all bullsh*t and very, very easy bullsh*t for me to prove it.”
He explained: “The photographs which he says that I published were printed by the Sunday Mirror on November 7, 1993. I joined the Daily Mirror in October in 1995.”
At the time the photos were published, Morgan was working for the Mirror’s rival, The Sun.
He questioned Spencer’s credibility, stating: “If Earl Spencer can be so incredibly, defamatorially wrong about such basic facts involving me, well, why should we believe anything else he puts in this book?”
Morgan accused Spencer of “using the Harry and Meghan playbook” of “putting their truth before the truth” and confirmed legal action is imminent.
“Earl Spencer, you’ll be hearing, and your publishers, from my lawyers. Because I would like the complete lie that you’ve published about me, and those photographs, to be removed from your book,” he asserted.
Morgan also demanded a donation to the King’s Trust for the “damage that you’ve caused with your lie.”