According to The Guardian, former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown said Saturday that she had been told Markle would no longer be joining the Netflix crime series. “I learned this morning that the casting of Meghan Markle in season 3 of Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen has been withdrawn,” Brown wrote. “The backlash in the UK was so intense, it became untenable to go forward.”

Sean quickly challenged that account. Responding to Brown on social media, he wrote, “It was never on—I know #guyritchie total fabrication that you and the rest of the Media decided to run with.” Sean also tagged Deadline while calling the story “ridiculous.” His account directly conflicts with reporting from multiple outlets that Markle had been discussing a role in the series.