Inside Edition for Friday Oct 23, 2026

“Deeply distressed” - that’s how Meghan Markle says she is feeling today after the world learned her dad, whom she famously disinvited from her royal wedding, is being investigated for allegedly having a trove of child porn on his computer. As Steven Fabian reports, Meghan says she’s known about similar allegations for years and deliberately kept her children away from him.  Markle’s father denies the allegations, calling them “lies.” Next, he’s the dad hailed a hero after he stepped in, killing an active shooter at his daughters’ elementary school before cops could intervene. Now he’s reliving the nail-biting moment in his first TV interview. And, this judge is under fire for what she said to a domestic violence suspect in her courtroom. Instead of sticking to questions about his alleged crime, all she appeared to want to know about was how to cook a steak!  Finally, a former TV Bachelor came face to face in court today with the woman who tried to scam him by falsely claiming she was pregnant with his twins. Jim Moret is at the courthouse with the latest.