Prince Harry once again questions his family’s lack of empathy towards him or his wife Meghan Markle, in a new mental health documentary series that is released on Apple TV + on Friday.
The series goes online the day after the publication of a report questioning a BBC reporter’s “deceptive” methods of obtaining an interview with Princess Diana, Harry’s mother, in 1995.
Journalist Martin Bashir apologized on Thursday. “I thought my family would help me, but all requests, requests, signs have met with silence or complete indifference,” says Harry in the documentary, about the difficulties he and his wife went through before the birth of their child. , Archie. Both had previously reported suffering from psychological disorders. Meghan also said she had considered ending her life in 2019.
In this series called “The Me You Can’t See“, which he co-produced with Oprah Winfrey, Harry said he was ashamed to ask his family for help” because, like many people my age, I knew he wasn’t going to give me what I needed.
“If he does not make shocking revelations, the youngest son of Prince Charles and Diana strikes a new blow to the Windsor house, already shaken by the interview he and Meghan had granted to Oprah Winfrey for the American channel CBS, in the beginning of March. .
“When I was younger, my father used to say to me and William: it was like that for me, so it will be the same for you,” says Harry, 36, referring to the aggressiveness of the tabloids. “It makes no sense,” the Duke of Sussex complains of his father, with whom his relations are relaxed.
“Just because you have suffered does not mean that your children have to suffer too. It should also be the opposite. (…) Do everything you can to turn the bad experiences you have had into something positive.”
The majority of British public opinion now have a negative opinion of Harry and Meghan, according to a recent UK poll. YouGov Institute, while Conversely, Charles’ rating has skyrocketed. Part of the British press accuses the couple of denouncing the behavior of the media, while using it to convey its messages and improve its image.
Harry says he wants to “break the cycle” and doesn’t want to relive what his father and especially his mother suffered. “It is (his) meeting., Therefore (his) relationship with Meghan” that prompted him to look for a way out after the psychological period following Diana’s death in 1997, when he was 12 years old. “I knew that if I didn’t start therapy to get better, I would lose this woman with whom I quickly realized I would spend the rest of my life.”
The prince says he felt, as a child, “the powerlessness” to protect his mother, who is perpetually pursued by photographers. “I was a boy, but too young to help a woman, my mother for that matter.”
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