Meghan Markle’s ex-co-star Simon Rex has turned down a huge salary for lying and saying he slept with the Duchess.

And it turns out that the magnitude of his gesture did not escape Markle, who personally thanked the actor.

The Scary Movie star has claimed he was offered $97,000 ($140,000) by UK tabloids to say he had sex with Markle, who appeared alongside him on an episode of 2005 from the sitcom Cuts.

“I was broke as f**k!” Rex shared with the Guardian. “I really needed the money. But I’ll be on food stamps before I do this.”

The 47-year-old said their interaction never went further than a friendly lunch and any other suggestions were completely wrong.

The actor then revealed that the Duchess of Sussex wrote him a letter thanking him for his kindness by refusing the bribe.

“She said, ‘It’s nice to know there’s still good people out there,'” Rex said, adding that he had the framed note in his California home.

In March 2020, Rex told the Hollywood Raw podcast about the bribe he was offered after the pair worked on the show together.

“Nothing happened,” he told the outlet. “We never even kissed. It was just, like, we hung out once in a very unusual way. It was just someone I met on a TV show and we We had lunch. That was all.”

When explaining why he walked away from the big payday, Rex said he turned down the offer because she “didn’t feel right about lying.”

Markle was also known for her work on the legal drama Suits, where she played a character named Rachel Zane before becoming the Duchess of Sussex when she married Prince Harry.

A year before the royal wedding, Markle confirmed during the couple’s first joint interview that she had decided to quit acting.

“What’s really exciting, as we talk about it as my career transition…is that the causes that have been very important to me, I can focus even more energy on them,” she said. Explain.

“You realize that when you have access or a voice that people are willing to listen to, [it comes with] a lot of responsibilities, which I take seriously.”