In 2021,Prince Harryopened up like never before about how tried to block out the pain of losing his motherPrincess Dianain 1997.
“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,” he continued.
When Oprah asks Harry if he knew he was masking his emotions at the time, he replied, “No. Completely unaware of it.”
“My brain telling me that I’m in a fight? I never knew that,” he said. “Why would I know that?”
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Prince Harry and Princess Diana.Karwai Tang/WireImage; Tim Graham Picture Library/Getty Images
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“Nothing came from that,” Harry added about Diana’s sudden death in Paris. “The same people who chased her into the tunnel photographed her dying on the backseat of that car.”
Harry alsospoke outabout the role the media played in his mother’s death following the results of a 2021official inquiryinto Martin Bashir’s controversial 1995 interview with the princess.
From left: Prince Philip, Prince William, Charles Spencer, Prince Harry and Prince Charles walk behind Princess Diana’s casket at her 1997 funeral.JEFF J. MITCHELL/AFP/Getty
Diana’s interview, during which she famously claimed there were “three of us” in her marriage toPrince Charles, swiftly led to an order fromQueen Elizabeththat Diana and Charles should divorce. They separated in 1992 and officially divorced in 1996. Diana died the following year in August 1997. She was 36.
Princess Diana during her Panorama interview.PA Images
“To those who have taken some form of accountability, thank you for owning it,” Harry continued. “That is the first step towards justice and truth. Yet what deeply concerns me is that practices like these— and even worse—are still widespread today. Then, and now, it’s bigger than one outlet, one network, or one publication.
“Our mother lost her life because of this, and nothing has changed. By protecting her legacy, we protect everyone, and uphold the dignity with which she lived her life. Let’s remember who she was and what she stood for,” he ended his statement.
Princess Diana and Prince Harry.Julian Parker/UK Press via Getty
Harry’s brotherPrince Williamalso released a strongly-worded statement in the wake of the report’s findings, calling Judge Lord John Dyson’s conclusions “extremely concerning.”
“It is my view that the deceitful way the interview was obtained substantially influenced what my mother said,” William added. “The interview was a major contribution to making my parents' relationship worse and has since hurt countless others. It brings indescribable sadness to know that the BBC’s failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia, and isolation that I remember from those final years with her.
Diana And William.Terry Fincher/Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images
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