Meghan Markle thanked Simon Rex for turning down tabloid bribes to claim they slept together, actor says

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Simon Rex received a royal thank-you for turning down an alleged bribe. The actor claimed several UK tabloids offered him $70,000 to say he slept with Meghan Markle, who appeared alongside him in a 2005 episode of the sitcom "Cuts." The 47-year-old insisted that their off-screen interactions never went beyond a platonic lunch. "I was broke as f---!" Rex recently told The Guardian. "I really needed the money.

But I’ll be on food stamps before I do that." Meghan Markle and Simon Rex worked together in a 2005 episode of 'Cuts'. (Getty Images) Rex said that after he turned down the bribes, the Duchess of Sussex wrote him a thank-you letter. "She said, ‘It’s nice to know there are still good people,’" said Rex, adding he has the note framed in his California home.

Back in March 2020, Rex told the "Hollywood Raw" podcast about the offers he received to share false stories about the 40-year-old solely because they worked together on a show. "Nothing happened," he stressed to the outlet. "We never even kissed.

It was just, like, we hung out once in a very non-datey way. She was just someone I had met on a TV show and we got lunch.That was the extent of it." Meghan Markle, circa 2005. (Jean-Paul Aussenard/WireImage for Kari Feinstein PR) Rex said he turned down the $70,000 offer because it "didn’t feel right lying." Markle, a former American actress, became the Duchess of Sussex when she married Britain’s Prince Harry in May 2018 at Windsor Castle.