Harry says family tried to STOP him and Meghan from leaving after ‘she was going to end her life’
Harry claims his family showed ‘total neglect’ for his mental health and he turned to drink and drugs for years after his mother’s death as he opens up to Oprah for AppleTV+ show: Says Meghan helped him into therapy four years ago
- In his new show The Me You Can’t See, Prince Harry says his family tried to prevent him and Megan from leaving when she was suicidal
- In the candid interview with Oprah, he said he felt trapped at the palace and went through a drinking and drug phase in his 30s
- He said he had to go to therapy and felt like history was repeating itself
In candid interviews with Oprah Winfrey on his new show, The Me You Can’t See, Prince Harry says he was discouraged from discussing his mental health as a child following the sudden death of his mother, and when he tried to ask his family for help more recently, when Meghan was feeling suicidal, he was ‘met with total silence’ and neglect.
‘I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever, it is just got met with total silence, total neglect,’ he admits on the show. ‘We spent four years trying to make it work. We did everything that we possibly could to stay there and carry on doing the role and doing the job. But Meghan was struggling.’
He said the way Meghan was being treated, while facing racist remarks from the press, reminded him of his own mother’s final days.
‘History was repeating itself,’ he said in an interview with Oprah. ‘My mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone who wasn’t white. And now look what’s happened.
‘It’s incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life. Like, the list is growing. And it all comes back to the same people, the same business model, the same industry,’ he said.
In an interview with Oprah on his new show The Me You Can’t See, Prince Harry admits to feeling trapped inside the palace and went to therapy. He is pictured at the taping of the Vax Live fundraising concert on May 2
In the candid interviews, the prince discusses his failure to process the grief from the death of his mother; the helplessness he felt to protect her; his dependence on drugs and alcohol to numb the pain; his anxiety and sense of being trapped in the palace; his family’s refusal to help when Megan felt suicidal and how therapy helped him ‘break the cycle.’
‘For me, therapy has equipped me to be able to take on anything,’ he said.
He says his family tried to prevent him and Megan from leaving when she was suicidal and admits to drinking and doing drugs in his 30s.
‘Eventually when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, ‘You can’t do this,’ Harry recounted to Oprah. ‘And it’s like, ‘Well how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?’ She [Markle] was going to end her life. It shouldn’t have to get to that.’
When asked if he has any regrets, he says it is not taking a stand earlier in his relationship with Markle.
Harry said his family tried to prevent him and Megan from leaving when she was having suicidal thoughts
Harry said he felt like history was repeating itself when Megan felt suicidal, reminding him of the death of his mother. He is pictured, right, with his older brother, William, at Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997
