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Meghan told Harry to get therapy after he ‘acted like a 12-year-old’ in huge row & he feared he’d lose her if he didn’t
MEGHAN Markle told Prince Harry to get therapy after he "acted like a 12-year-old" in a huge row, he has revealed.
The Duke of Sussex told Oprah Winfrey in his new documentary series The Me You Can't See he feared he'd lose his wife if he "didn't fix himself".
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Opening up about his mental health struggles, he said: "I was always the 'yes' man, I was always the one willing to say yes.
"But that yes, yes, yes, yes of course, yes, led to burnout. And it was like someone had taken the lid off all of the emotions I had suppressed for so many years suddenly came to the forefront.
"I saw GPs, I saw doctors, I saw therapists, I saw alternative therapists, I saw all sorts of people.
"But it was meeting and being with Meghan. I knew that if I didn't do therapy and fix myself, then I was going to lose this woman who I could see spending the rest of my life with.
"There was a lot of learning right at the beginning of our relationship. She was shocked to be coming backstage of the institution of the British Royal Family.
"When she said, 'I think you need to see someone', it was in reaction to an argument we had.
"In that argument, not knowing about it, I reverted back to 12-year-old Harry."
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He continued: "I felt somewhat ashamed and defensive, like, 'how dare you, you're calling me a child'.
"And she said 'no, I'm not calling you a child, I'm expressing sympathy and empathy for you for what happened to you when you were a child. You never processed it, you were never allowed to talk about it, and all of a sudden now it's coming up in different ways as projection.
"That was a start of a learning journey for me. I became aware that I'd been living in a bubble within this family.
"I was almost trapped in a thought process and mindset."
Prince Harry also spoke about about:
- Prince Charles not 'making it right' for him and brother Prince William after their mother's car crash death in 1997
- Turning to drinking and drugs in his late 20s, admitting: 'I would drink a week's worth in one day'
- The public being allowed to mourn his mother Princess Diana, while he was not
- Harry claimed critics 'won't stop until Meghan dies'
- How Meghan resisted suicidal thoughts because she knew it would be 'unfair' for Harry to lose another woman in his life
- How some of Archie's first words were "grandma Diana"
- Harry has said he was "afraid" to return to the UK for Prince Philip's funeral but "used coping skills from therapy to get through"
It follows Harry's Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast interview last week in which he said Meghan encouraged him to seek therapy after seeing him "hurting".
He said his wife had encouraged him to get help with feelings of "frustration" about things that were "out of his control".
Harry's new five-part celebrity-packed doc was released on Apple TV in the US on Thursday night and the UK this morning.
The series focuses on mental health, with Harry telling Winfrey the trauma of his mother's death caused him to suffer anxiety and severe panic attacks from ages 28 to 32.
"I was just all over the place mentally," he said. "It was a nightmare time in my life."
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He also admitted the trauma of his mother's death led him to use alcohol and drugs to "mask" his emotions and to ";feel less like I was feeling".
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"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," he said.
He told Winfrey he would drink a week's worth of alcohol on a Friday or Saturday night, "not because I was enjoying it but because I was trying to mask something".
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