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 Morgan, 55, left ITV's Good
Morning Britain on Tuesday after a backlash
against his comments on Meghan's interview with
Winfrey, in which she revealed she had felt
suicidal while living as a royal in Britain.
"On Monday, I said I didn't believe Meghan
Markle in her Oprah interview. I've had time to
reflect on this opinion, and I still don't. If
you did, OK," Morgan said in a
characteristically combative Tweet on Wednesday
morning.
"Freedom of speech is a hill I'm happy to die
on. Thanks for all the love, and hate. I'm off
to spend more time with my opinions," he told
his 7.8 million Twitter followers.
He added a photo of Winston Churchill with a
quote on free speech.
In an interview that has embarrassed Britain's
tradition-bound monarchy, Meghan, who married
Prince Harry in 2018, said the royal family had
rejected her pleas for mental health support.
The American actress, who is mixed race, also
said that someone in the royal household had
raised questions about the colour of her unborn
son's skin.
The morning after the interview was aired on
U.S. television, Morgan said on Good Morning
Britain, among a torrent of other criticisms,
that he did not believe a word Meghan had said.
In a Tweet, he called her "Princess Pinocchio".
The following morning, he stormed off the set of
the live programme when challenged by a
co-presenter about his stance. Later that day,
ITV said he was leaving.
Monday's programme attracted more than 41,000
complaints to Britain's media regulator, the
second highest in its history, which announced
an investigation.
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 Morgan first made his name in
the cut-throat world of the British tabloid
press, culminating in stints editing the
now-defunct News of the World, then the Daily
Mirror.
He later went into television, appearing as a
judge on the reality shows America's Got Talent
and Britain's Got Talent. For three years he
hosted a chat show on CNN.
Morgan's detractors said his attitude towards
Meghan seemed to be partly driven by personal
animus because, by his own account, he had got
on "brilliantly" with her when he had first met
her but she had later dropped contact with him.
Susanna Reid, who co-presented Good Morning
Britain with Morgan and frequently disagreed
with him on air, described him on Wednesday's
programme as "outspoken, challenging,
opinionated, disruptive".
Morgan told reporters on Tuesday he thought
Meghan's interview had damaged the monarchy and
Queen Elizabeth at a time when her 99-year-old
husband Prince Philip was in hospital, which he
said was "contemptible".
 "If I have to fall on my sword for expressing an
honestly held opinion about Meghan Markle and
that diatribe of bilge that she came out with in
that interview, so be it," he said.
(Additional reporting by Gerry Mey; Editing by
Mike Collett-White and Angus MacSwan)
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