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The comments come three months after Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, missed his daughter’s lavish wedding due to a heart operation and she was walked down the aisle by her father-in-law, Prince Charles, instead.
Their relationship appears to have been fraught in recent months after Thomas staged pictures for the media.
Speaking from his home in Rosario, Mexico, Thomas told The Sun: “They are either like Scientologists or the Stepford family. If they hear anybody say anything they just lock the doors. They need to speak up!
“They are cult-like — like Scientology — because they are secretive. They close the door, pull the shades down and put their fingers in their ears so they don’t have to hear.
“Maybe they have a secret handshake too! You cannot ask a question of them — as they won’t answer.”
The Emmy-winning lighting director reportedly wants Meghan to contact him after three months of silence.
The father, 74, has claimed not to have spoken to his daughter, the Duchess of Sussex, since she married Prince Harry in May.
The Church of Scientology has often been accused of acting in a cult-like fashion and has sparked debate over some of its methods.
Celebrities including Tom Cruise and John Travolta follow the controversial church, where people are viewed as spiritual beings that have minds and bodies.
One source told the Daily Mail last week that Thomas needs to contact Meghan in a “respectful manner” for her to want to speak to him.
In June 2016, Meghan publicly displayed her love for her father on Instagram posting a picture of him and her as a baby and saying: “Happy Father’s Day, daddy. I’m still your buckaroo, and to this day your hugs are still the very best in the whole wide world.
“Thanks for my work ethic, my love of Busby Berkeley films and club sandwiches, for teaching me the importance of handwritten thank you notes, and for giving me that signature Markle nose. I love you.”
There are also recent rumours that Thomas is angry that his children are not paying for his retirement despite his generosity towards them.
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