• Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has revealed that she had a miscarriage in July, giving a personal account of the traumatic experience in hopes of helping others. She described the miscarriage in an opinion piece in The New York Times on Wednesday, writing that "I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second." The former Meghan Markle and husband Prince Harry have an 18-month-old son, Archie. The duchess, 39, said she was sharing her story to help break the silence around an all-too-common tragedy. Britain's National Health Service says about one in eight pregnancies in which a woman is aware she is pregnant ends in miscarriage. "Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few," Meghan wrote. "In being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing." In an intimate account of her experience, the duchess described how tragedy struck on a "morning that began as ordinarily as any other day: Make breakfast. Feed the dogs. Take vitamins. Find that missing sock. Pick up the rogue crayon that rolled under the table. Throw my hair in a ponytail before getting my son from his crib." However, she said she felt a sharp cramp and fell to the floor. Later, she said, she "lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband's hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we'd heal." Sophie King, a midwife at U.K. child-loss charity Tommy's, said miscarriage and stillbirth remain "a real taboo in society," so Meghan's "honesty and openness today send a powerful message to anyone who loses a baby: this may feel incredibly lonely, but you are not alone."
• Kaley Cuoco said she knew she wanted to turn Chris Bohjalian's best-selling novel "The Flight Attendant' into a TV series when the book caught her eye online. "The cover of the book is a blonde woman. It just kind of looks like me," she recalled. Cuoco read the one sentence summary and called her agent. "The first thing I asked was, 'Has Reese Witherspoon gotten the rights to this book?'" she said. When she learned Witherspoon had not optioned the book, Cuoco said she instructed her team to hurry and nab the rights because she wanted to make it into a TV series. "The Flight Attendant" debuts today on HBO Max. Cuoco is an executive producer and stars in the series as Cassie, a party girl flight attendant who meets a handsome man on a flight to Bangkok. She spends the night with him on a layover, and wakes up to him dead in her bed. She panics and leaves only to become a suspect in the murder since she doesn't remember what happened.