Meghan Markle’s father Thomas is speaking out once again this week, and though he’s admitted that he made some “stupid mistakes,” he added that being cut off completely by Meghan and Harry “is a punishment which does not fit the crime.”

Thomas said that he has apologized for the photos of him that were sold to the paparazzi just before Meghan’s wedding to Harry.

“I was a fool. I was convinced to do these pictures to change my image,” he said. “I was sick of seeing schlubby pictures of me buying beer which wasn’t even for me. I apologized to Harry on the phone and all he said was, ‘If you’d listened to me, none of this would have happened.'”

“I did a few things wrong, said a few things I should not have said,” Thomas said. “But some of the Royals have done far worse things… There are convicts in prisons who have murdered and committed all kinds of horrible crimes, and their daughters still visit them.”

Thomas also produced some medical bills that he said “prove conclusively” that he did indeed have TWO heart attacks right before Meghan and Harry’s wedding. Thomas had the first heart attack the weekend before the wedding, and the second days later at his home in Mexico.

“The doctors told me I was having a second heart attack,” Thomas explained. “I had a blocked artery which they call the widow maker. A friend took me across the border to a U.S. hospital and they saved my life.”

The Markle family drama has been nothing short of a mess for everyone involved, and we can only hope that they can somehow put their issues aside and move forward.