In episode three of the docuseries, Meghan, Harry, and her mother, Doria Ragland, discussed the paparazzi scandal involving Thomas Sr., who reportedly accepted money to pose for paparazzi photos in May 2018 ahead of the couple's wedding, according to a Daily Mail report at the time.
Harry and Meghan said they learned from their communications team that TMZ would be publishing a story the next day saying Thomas posed for photos, Insider's Samantha Grindell and Anneta Konstantinides reported.
Meghan said she called her father to ask him if the story was true, and Thomas denied the allegations. According to Meghan, Thomas refused her and Harry's help to get him out of Mexico, where he was living, before the media began swarming his house.
"I was like, 'We'll just come and get you a day early, we'll get you out of Mexico.' And he said, 'No, no, I have things to do.' And it felt really cagey," Meghan said. "I was like, 'It doesn't make sense.' And when we hung up, I looked at H and I was like, 'I don't know why, but I don't believe him.'"
Meghan said she called her father more than 20 times as reports of the staged photos broke days before their wedding, but she said he never returned any of her calls.
Days before the royal wedding, Thomas Sr. told TMZ he had suffered a heart attack but checked himself out of the hospital so he could attend the wedding.
According to TMZ's report, his decision to drop out of the wedding was born of embarrassment over his recent paparazzi scandal more so than any health issues.
Meghan learned he wasn't coming to the wedding and that he had a heart attack through the tabloids, she said in the series.