Prince Harry told in an open conversation with Oprah Winfrey, that he turned to drugs and alcohol after the sudden death of his mother, Princess Diana.
Prince Harry turned to drugs and alcohol to cope with Princess Diana’s death
The Duke of Sussex, 36, discusses his mental health issues in an open conversation with Oprah Winfrey in the new series “The Me, You Can’t See” on Apple TV+.
The first episode of the highly anticipated series released freely on Friday shows Harry reflecting on the difficulties he endured in the years following the death of the Princess of Wales.
He was only 12 when they died of injuries, in a traffic collision in Paris.
“I was ready to drink, I was ready to take drugs, I was ready to try to do the things that made me feel less.
But I slowly realized that, okay, I didn’t drink Monday through Friday, but I would probably drink as much as I would in a week in a single day, on a Friday or a Saturday night,” Harry recalls.
Meghan Markles‘ husband, who described ages 28 to 32 as “Nightmare” for him, and that his brain “told me I’m in a fight.”
Harry not only dealt with his mother’s death at a young age, but on the global stage.
I walk behind her casket at her funeral that was televised to millions.
It is also shown in the series, that Harry suffered “panic attacks [and] severe anxiety” when he had to fulfill the duties of the royal family.
In the series, Harry said he went around in therapy for four years and learned from his therapist that he “never” edited out his mother’s death and that these feelings “arise in different ways as a projection.”
Harry revealed in the March 7 interview that he and his father, heir to the throne Prince Charles, went through a major rough patch in their relationship.
The young prince explained that he had only two conversations with his father and three with his grandmother after moving to Canada.
