Over the past few weeks, Meghan Markle’s father has been giving even more interviews to the press as he continues to blast the British royal family as he also begs his daughter to contact him. Now, however, sources close to Meghan are saying that she is refusing to be manipulated by her father’s “emotional blackmail.”

“Enough already,” Meghan allegedly told a close friend. “For the life of her, she can’t understand why he’s digging such a deep hole for himself and to say things like, ‘It would be easier for her if her dad died.’ She said she just wishes her dad would ‘stop blathering’ to the press. That’s the one birthday gift she wanted from her father.”

“Meghan has no immediate plans to contact her father. Firstly, she’s deeply hurt and secondly she can’t trust him to keep their conversation private,” another source close to the duchess said. “Meghan is big on being true to herself and taking care of herself, and if this means avoiding toxic relationships so be it. It’s not like she’s never ever going to speak with her dad again, but certainly not now, not in this climate.”

A friend of Meghan’s said that this is not the first time she has had to deal with her father’s negative qualities.

“Behavior like his doesn’t happen overnight. Why do you think her parents got divorced in the first place?,” the source said. “Meghan’s had to deal with a lot of self esteem issues growing up with a narcissist. She has tools to cope with emotional blackmail. She does pray for him. That’s Meghan. She does not have a bad bone in her body, but she’s not falling for her dad’s crocodile tears. She’s been down that road far too many times before.”

This comes days after Thomas gave yet another embarrassing interview about Meghan and the royals.

“I’m really hurt that she’s cut me off completely,” Thomas said. “I used to have a phone number and text number for her personal aides at the Palace, but after I said a few critical words about the Royal Family changing Meghan, they cut me off.”

It’s sad that Thomas continues to go to the press to complain about the royals, as it’s clear that all Meghan wants is for him to keep her personal life private.