Prince Harry Turned to Alcohol and Drugs To Cope With Princess Diana’s Death
The loss of Princess Diana back in 1997 devastated the world, but those closest to her had to deal with her loss firsthand.
In a new docuseries “The Me You Can’t See,” Prince Harry opens up about how he dealt with his mother’s untimely death, and that he often turned to drugs and alcohol.
“I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling,” Harry said.
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“But I slowly became aware that, okay, I wasn’t drinking Monday to Friday, but I would probably drink a week’s worth in one day on a Friday or a Saturday night. And I would find myself drinking, not because I was enjoying it but because I was trying to mask something.”
Oprah asked Prince Harry if at the time he knew his dining was to cover up his feelings to which he replied, “No. Completely unaware of it.”
“My brain tells me that I’m in a fight? I never knew that” he added. “Why would I know that?”
Harry was just 12 when Diana died in a car accident in Paris, she was being chased by paparazzi.
“I was so angry with what happened to her and the fact that there was no justice at all. Nothing came from that. The same people who chased her into the tunnel photographed her dying on the backseat of that car.”