Alcohol, drugs, anxiety and panic attacks. From 28 to 32, Prince Harry experienced the darkest period of his life after the death of his mother Diana. A “nightmare” that reality has told in detail in the new documentary The Me You Can’t See, airing today on Apple TV.
On Friday or Saturday nights, he revealed, “I drank as much alcohol as you drink in a week. Not because I was having fun but because I was trying to hide “the pain.” “I was taking drugs to feel less,” Harry added when speaking to Oprah Winfrey on the series.
In the series the word goes to a series of famous characters including Lady Gaga, Glenn Close, DeMar DeRozan of the San Antonio Spurs, Langston Galloway of the Phoenix Suns, always smiling in public but struggling with invisible ailments in private. The program offers enlightening stories to help break down the taboos surrounding mental health and emotional well-being. Both Winfrey and Harry openly discuss such ailments, also talking about their personal paths and the trials faced.
“Deciding to ask for help is not a sign of weakness – says Harry in the trailer, during which his wife Meghan Markle also appears on a couple of occasions -. We are born in different circumstances, we grow up in different environments and we face different experiences in life. But we are all human beings. Most of us carry unresolved trauma, loss, or bereavement with us. Which seems to belong only to us. And in a way it is. However, last year we learned that we are all in the same boat and I hope this series demonstrates that there is strength in vulnerability, connection in empathy and power in honesty ”.