Prince Harry and Meghan

It's not even necessarily that they want, or expect, most people to understand their life and its strange predicaments; it is perhaps just that it would be nice for there to be something reliable and honest from which anyone who truly cared to could form an accurate opinion. I think people who are famous and over-examined often also just want to see some truth about themselves simply for themselves so that for once, when they see or hear themselves reflected back in their own direction, they can at least recognise some of what they see or hear. In this respect, being famous is perhaps like being in a canyon with an unreliable echo: whenever you shout, the echo you hear is of the same voice but different words, or the same words but a different voice. Sometimes it would be nice just to hear something you recognise as yourself.
People who encourage truthful accounts of their life and living also sometimes say that they want to set the record straight after all. thelies and is rarely their main motivation. The big lies hurt of course; they can hurt hugely. But you can point out a big lie, you can do battle with it, and perhaps you can rebut it. At least people will listen when you say: 'I didn't sleep with her/sleep with him smash that/hit him/speak ill of them/buy that/ betray anyone...

I think that in the long run it's the little lies that somehow do more damage, because you're defenceless against them. These arent the grand libels and slanders. They're the tiny untruths, the endless small misstatements of where you were and what you did and why you did it and what happened and who you are. If you try to point out a little lie, no one usually listens and, if they do, often they think you mad for making a fuss about something so unimportant.
They are the grains of sand eroding a building; if you live inside its walls for a lifetime, you see the destruction they cause, but to everyone else they're just dust in the air. But these are the lies that tell the person being lied about that everything they believe to be true is subtly wrong; it is the little lies that can, in the long run, undermine your faith in reality and your relationship with the outside world.
To be famous in the twenty-first century is to be pelted with little lies, day after day. To be famous in the twenty-first century is to find yourself trapped as a character in a book with an unreliable narrator, forever trying to shout from the pages to explain how it really was.
How could you not sometimes wish for it to be different?