Former  Good Morning Britain  host Piers Morgan has slammed Meghan Markle for filing an official complaint outside his London home, laughing and calling her “contemptible”.

Reporters cornered Morgan outside his house and asked him about his swift and controversial exit from the breakfast show.

Morgan claimed that people were trying to cancel him and that he would “re-emerge”.

“I believe in freedom of speech, I believe in the right to be allowed to have an opinion. If people want to believe Meghan Markle, that’s entirely their right.

“I don’t believe almost anything that comes out of her mouth and I think the damage she’s done to the British monarchy and to the Queen at a time when Prince Philip is lying in hospital is enormous and frankly 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 also claims he is in “temporary hibernation”.

“I think it’s fair to say, although the woke crowd will think that they’ve cancelled me, I think they will be rather disappointed when I re-emerge.”

The revelations come after Markle filed a complaint to ITV’s CEO and raised concerns over Morgan’s wording towards mental health.

ITV’s royal editor Chris Shipp confirmed the rumours.

“I’m told that the letter was written by the duchess for one reason only — to raise and share concern over the serious impact that Morgan’s comments could have on anyone struggling with their mental health or thinking about seeking help,”  Harper Bazaar’s Omid Scobie  continued.

Morgan’s co-host Susanna Reid opened the next  Good Morning Britain  by directly addressing the controversy.

“A number of people will know the news and many of you will not and will be surprised that Piers Morgan is not here this morning. Now Piers and I have disagreed on many things, and that dynamic was one the things that viewers loved about the program.

“He is, without doubt, an outspoken, challenging, opinionated, disruptive broadcaster. He has many critics and he has many fans.

“You all know that I disagreed with him about Meghan’s interview, he himself clarified his comments about her mental health on the show yesterday.

“There are many voices on GMB and everyone has their say. But now Piers has decided to leave the program. Some of you may cheer and others will boo.

“It is certainly going to be very different. But shows go on, and so on we go.”