Prince Harry
has told Oprah Winfrey that his wife Meghan Markle was only prevented from
killing herself by concern over him ‘losing another woman in my life’.
In his new documentary series, The Me You Can’t See, Harry opens up about the night Meghan told him she was suicidal.
The programme
also shows footage of Harry and Meghan sitting together as the lights went down
at the Royal Albert Hall in London during an event two years ago, before she
started crying.
The pair had
been married for less than a year and she was pregnant with their son Archie
when, in January 2019, she told him she was deeply depressed.
Meghan first
revealed the trauma of that night in her March interview with Oprah.
‘The thing
that stopped her from seeing it through was how unfair it would be on me after
everything that had happened to my mum and to now to be put in a position of
losing another woman in my life — with a baby inside of her, our baby,’ he
said.
‘The scariest
thing for her was her clarity of thought. She hadn’t ‘lost it.’ She wasn’t
crazy. She wasn’t self-medicating, be it through pills or through alcohol. She
was absolutely sober. She was completely sane. Yet in the quiet of night, these
thoughts woke her up.’
Harry said
that he did not know how to handle her confession. ‘I’m somewhat ashamed of the
way that I dealt with them,’ he said.
‘And of
course, because of the system that we were in and the responsibilities and the
duties that we had, we had a quick cuddle and then we had to get changed to
jump in a convoy with a police escort and drive to the Royal Albert Hall for a
charity event. Then step out into a wall of cameras and pretend as though
everything’s okay.
‘There wasn’t
an option to say, ‘you know what, tonight, we’re not going to go’ because just
imagine the stories that come from that.’
He said that
the night was, for him, a revelation. He realised that they could not continue
the way they were.
‘While my
wife and I were in those chairs, gripping each other’s hand, the moment the
lights go down, Meghan starts crying. I’m feeling sorry for her, but I’m also
really angry with myself that we’re stuck in this situation,’ Harry said.
‘I was
ashamed that it got this bad. I was ashamed to go to my family.
‘Because to
be honest with you, like a lot of other people my age could probably relate to,
I know that I’m not gonna get from my family what I need.
‘I then had a
son who I’d far rather be solely focused on, rather than every time I look into
his eyes, wondering whether my wife is going to end up like my mother and I’m
going to have to look after him myself.’
The prince,
whose new series airs on Apple TV+ from May 20, told Winfrey he feared ‘history
repeating itself’ after he began dating Markle , and was reminded of his mother
being pursued to her death while she was dating ‘someone who wasn’t white’.
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