EXCLUSIVEMeghan Markle's new podcast boss Stephanie Wittels Wachs was a Texas schoolteacher who 'never 始める，決める out to be in 商売／仕事 with the 王室の Family' but an untimely?ヘロイン overdose death led her to the Duchess
- Last month it was 明らかにする／漏らすd that the Duchess of Sussex had 調印するd on to women-run Lemonada マスコミ to rerelease Archetypes and host an 明示していない show
- Stephanie Wittels Wachs, 43, 開始する，打ち上げるd the podcasting company in 2019 with co-創立者 Jessica Cordova Kramer
- Wachs's brother Harris Wittels was a successful comedian and Parks and Recreation writer who died in 2015 of a ヘロイン overdose at age 30
麻薬 中毒, an overdose death and a foray into Scientology?始める，決める Stephanie Wittels Wachs on an ありそうもない course to team up with a member of the British 王室の Family.??
Last month it was 明らかにする／漏らすd that Meghan Markle had 調印するd on to women-run Lemonada マスコミ to host a show after cutting 関係 with Spotify に引き続いて a 選び出す／独身 season of the Archetypes podcast.?
Stephanie Wittels Wachs, 43, 開始する，打ち上げるd the podcasting company in 2019 with co-創立者 Jessica Cordova Kramer, which now produces shows around sex, grief and LGBTQ?問題／発行するs to help 'make life suck いっそう少なく.'
Speaking to DailyMail.com, a Hollywood insider and friend said, 'Stephanie didn't 始める，決める out to become a マスコミ mogul and certainly never 推定する／予想するd to be in 商売／仕事 with members of the 王室の Family.'
But it was Wachs's comedian brother's 2015 overdose death at age 30 that 誘発するd her podcasting 投機・賭ける and 結局 led her to work with the Duchess of Sussex, who will 再発進する Archetypes 同様に as host an 明示していない show.
The Duchess of Sussex has 調印するd on to women-run Lemonada マスコミ to host an 明示していない show.?Stephanie Wittels Wachs (left) 開始する，打ち上げるd the podcasting company in 2019 with co-創立者 Jessica Cordova Kramer and won a Webby Award for online excellence last year
Wachs's brother Harris Wittels was a successful comedian and Parks and Recreation writer who died in 2015 of a ヘロイン overdose. The brother and sister pair are pictured together?
That brother was Harris Wittels who was 'discovered' by comedian Sarah Silverman in his 早期に twent ies.?
He went on to count 世帯 指名するs like Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari as his co-労働者s when he 調印するd on as co-(n)役員／(a)執行力のある 生産者 and writer on NBC 攻撃する，衝突する Parks and Recreation.?
He was also the author of Humblebrag: The Art Of 誤った Modesty.?
'The guy was such a talented joke writer ? in 新規加入 to 存在 a superstar on Twitter?? that he continued to work at an 極端に high professional level にもかかわらず his 問題／発行するs with 実体 乱用,' a source told DailyMail.com.?
'Parks 簡単に wouldn't have been the same without his 令状ing, and everybody knew it.'
A year after his death, Wachs - who was a high school teacher in Houston, Texas, at the time - told DailyMail.com that learning of her brother's passing was 'the worst day of my life'. Stephanie and Harris are pictured at her wedding?
Wittels was 声の about his 中毒, too, 述べるing his 麻薬 use and stints in rehab on podcasts, even admitting to going to LA's Skid 列／漕ぐ／騒動 to 得点する／非難する／２０ ヘロイン at 2am.?
He died of a ヘロイン overdose on February 19, 2015 at 30 years old after a two-year 戦う／戦い.??
'Stephanie was a Texas housewife when her brother?died after a long and 半分-public 戦う／戦い with 麻薬s,' the source said. 'Harris's sudden, shocking death 誘発するd Stephanie to turn her whole life upside 負かす／撃墜する.?
'She decided to 充てる her time to creating and 分配するing uplifting podcast content.'
Lemonada was 設立するd four years after Harris's death after Wachs teamed up with Kramer, whose brother Stefano also died of an overdose.?
The スローガン for Lemonada is 'making lemonade out of lemons, one podcast at a time.'??
'That in itself was a 尊敬の印 to her late brother because he was 熱烈な about the podcasting medium and made トンs of hilarious podcast 外見s that live on,' the insider said.?
A year after her brother's death, Wachs ? who was a high school teacher in Houston, Texas, at the time ? told DailyMail.com that learning of her brother's passing was 'the worst day of my life'.
She said that after his third stint in rehab 'it was very （疑いを）晴らす to us that [death] was a possibil ity.'
'We've been 取引，協定ing with this hell for a long time. When I saw the number on my phone I knew what was going on but I don't think you're ever 用意が出来ている to get that call,' Wachs said.?
The Hollywood insider said they couldn't help but to think that Scientology led to Wittels's downfall.
'What's utterly bizarre about this whole 状況／情勢 is that の直前に his death Harris 基本的に went to war with Scientology by 公然と recounting his weird, 新規採用-oriented 遭遇（する）s 公然と on as many podcasts as he could,' the source said.?
'Stephanie was a Texas housewife when her brother died of a ヘロイン overdose after a long and 半分-public 戦う／戦い with 麻薬s,' a source told DailyMail.com. ' Harris's sudden, shocking death 誘発するd Stephanie to turn her whole life upside 負かす／撃墜する'
Harris Wittels counted 世帯 指名するs like Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari as his co-労働者s when he 調印するd on as one of the 最高の，を越す writers on NBC 攻撃する，衝突する Parks and Recreation
Wachs's brother Harris Wittels was 'discovered' by comedian Sarah Silverman in his 早期に twenties. Silverman now has a podcast with Lemonada?
On an episode of the 'You Made It Weird' podcast, 記録，記録的な／記録するd just months before his death, he spoke of his foray into Scientology for a girl he was dating ? but said he 結局 支援するd out.??
'I was always a little weird about the Scientology thing with this girl that I loved. And I couldn't 扱う that inner 騒動 and instead of thinking about it I could take a pill and relax and be 罰金,' Wittels said.?
He 認める that it was the 強調する／ストレス of dating a Scientologist that led him to hard 麻薬s, 含むing opioids and 結局 ヘロイン.?
Wittels goes on to say that the girl he was dating and her father 押し進めるd him to enter Scientology rehab. He 最初 拒絶する／低下するd but months later entered the church's program.?
'They lock you up for three months and pump you with niacin,' he said.?
Wittels said he went to 約束s in Malibu and paid $57,000 for a 30-day 治療, and he got clean.?
But it was short lived.??
Our source said, 'There has always been this nagging 疑惑 の中で his 生き残るing friend group that Harris's weird experience with Scientology led to his death, like a chain of 支配s tipping over.'?
Jessica Cordova Kramer (left) and Stephanie Wittels Wachs 設立するd Lemonada in 2019
The スローガン for Lemonada is 'making lemonade out of lemons, one podcast at a time'
In 新規加入 to Meghan Markle, Lemonada 作品 with a host of celebrities from Sarah Silverman to?Julia Louis-Dreyfus?and have big 支援者s 含むing Stephanie Hannon, who served as 長，指導者 科学（工学）技術 Officer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 大統領の （選挙などの）運動をする.??
'I'm proud to now be able to 株 that I am joining the brilliant team at Lemonada to continue my love of podcasting,' Meghan said in a 声明 last month. '存在 able to support a 女性（の）-設立するd company with a roster of thought 刺激するing and 高度に entertaining podcasts is a fantastic way to kick off 2024.'
There are no 詳細（に述べる）s on what Markle's new show with Lemonada will be yet ? just that she will be the host.?
Wachs said in a 2022 interview they realized 'people are struggling and feeling really alone. The 使節団 for Lemonada was born. Our 願望（する） is to make the hard things easier.'
One of Lemonada's most popular shows is Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus,?which spent 29 days in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 at the 最高の，を越す of the Apple Podcast charts.?
In the podcast she sits 負かす／撃墜する with?Jane Fonda, Carol Burnett, Amy Tan, Diane 出身の Furstenberg, Isabel Allende and Fran Lebowitz 'to get schooled in how to live a 十分な and meaningful life.'
