has been branded "too precious" by Hollywood icon Brooke Shields in a damning new interview. The 60-year-old discussed apearing alongside .

Speaking on the latest episode of India Hicks' podcast, Brooke said that the tone quickly . She told India: "Katie asks the first question to Meghan and talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women, etcetera, etcetera.

"[Meghan] starts telling a story about how when she was 11... And she keeps saying, well, when I was 11, I saw this commercial and they were talking about washing dishes and only soap for washing dishes was for women.

"And she said, 'I didn't think only women wash dishes. It wasn't fair. So I wrote to the company. And when I was 11, I wrote my first letter and when I was 11...' and she kept saying she was 11! She wrote to the company, they changed the text, they changed the commercial."

Feeling the heaviness in the room, Brooke then recalled how she attempted to break the tension.

She said: "I go, 'Excuse me, I'm so sorry. I've got to interrupt you there for one minute.' I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious.

"I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we're different,' Brooke told the audience. "I said, 'Well, when I was 11, I was playing a prostitute."

Discussing how it became "more relaxed" after she stepped in, she added: "It was just too precious. And I was like, they're not going to want to sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious."

Brooke' s comment was a reference to her breakout role as a child star in the controversial 1978 film Pretty Baby, in which she played a child sex worker.

The role sparked debate at the time, with the discussion having remained the subject of intense scrutiny in the decades since.