Prince Harry opens up about cocaine use and tells his story in ITV interview – Deadline
In the first of a series of interviews promoting new memoirs Replacement, prince harry He has said that he “spent the last six years trying to communicate with my family in private” before reaching the point of “fleeing my home country in fear for our lives.”
Harry delivered an extraordinary barrage against “information, leaks and plantations” to the press that have come from members of his own royal family about him and his wife. Meghan Markle as a reason for it to now go public with the first Netflix documentary harry and meghan and now the book plus a series of interviews, including three in the US in the next 24 hours.
“The level of plantation of other members of the Royal Family means, in my opinion, that they have written thousands of books,” he added. “She got to the point where we had to leave. The distorted narrative is that we wanted to leave to make money, but that is not the case, we would have stayed for a lifetime of service.”
Sitting down for the long-awaited interview with a friend and itv Correspondent tom bradbyHarry criticized “some of the royal family who slept with the devil”, the devil being the British tabloid media.
While he said he “understands” why they did this, he is seeking “reconciliation” and is therefore telling his story through documentaries and a book. Harry did not elaborate on who he was referring to with his “diabolical” comments, but they will no doubt have British commentators guessing after an in-depth 90-minute interview that may leave their hopes of “reconciliation” to a few. steps further.
The Duke of Sussex, who now resides in Los Angeles with his wife, said he had spent almost the entire period of his relationship with the ex. Suits The actor “wrote letters, chatted and emailed” other members of the Royal Family about his difficulties, but was always told: “This is not what is happening, you are imagining it.”
He urged his family to “work a lot on themselves” in the same vein as him, noting his recognition of the “unconsciously biased” issues he has tackled in recent years.
“The family could learn a lot from that,” he said.
“Unconscious bias” was part of a bizarre section of the interview during which Harry appeared to say that the anonymous ‘racist Royal’, whom he and Markle singled out during their 2021 Oprah interview, had questioned how dark skin would be. of his son Archie, was in fact not racist, but rather exhibits an unconscious bias.
“There were a lot of stereotypes”
although they were Suits fans said bro prince william and his wife Kate Middleton disliked Markle almost immediately and “there were a lot of stereotypes” due to Markle being a “biracial, divorced, American actress”.
“That stereotype caused a barrier for them to let her in,” he added. “They were living in the tabloid bubble instead of reality.” Harry is in the process of filing three different lawsuits against British media organisations, including one in which he accuses the daily mail landlord to hire investigators to plant listening devices in his house.
Much of the interview was devoted to discussing Harry’s now almost completely broken relationship with William, much of which has been teased prior to the release of Replacement. She talked about the difference in press coverage of her relationship with Markle compared to William and Middleton, saying that William told her when he got engaged to Markle, “This is going to be very hard for you.”
“I spent the last six years trying to communicate with my family in private,” he added, in response to a question about his somewhat criticized decision to go public.
“If it had stopped before the point where I fled my country with my wife and son in fear for our lives, things might have turned out differently.”
Later, speaking of his father, now King Charles III’s marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles, Harry produced another book excerpt in which he said he had urged the couple not to marry.
Harry went on to discuss the heartbreaking death of mother Princess Diana 25 years ago, having read an excerpt from the book when his father first told him his mother had died.
“This is relatable to anyone who has experienced loss,” she added, before speaking about feeling the “wet hands” of supporters in the days after Diana’s death, supporters wiping away tears.
He said that the people who watched harry and meghan he will wonder “why would you want your family back” but he “wants them back 100%”, adding: “I hope the reconciliation between my family and us has a ripple effect all over the world.”
He said that he is “at peace now”, which “makes some people angry and infuriated” and leads to “shame for some people”. “I have never been happier,” she added.
Rejecting the notion that she has spent too much time telling her story and reflecting on her past, she described the documentaries, the book and the interviews as “cathartic” and involving “a lot of energy”.
“There’s a lot of relief now that they’re done,” he said. “I’ve made peace with a lot of this, but I still expect them to hold me accountable.”
dramatic week
The interview came after a jam-packed week of dramatic excerpts from the book being drip-streamed by the UK media, after the book was accidentally published in Spain several days earlier, while at the same time ITV and CBS they have regularly posted clues for their upcoming interviews. .
The most dramatic was The Guardians Revelation of an extraordinary physical attack that Harry claims took place at the hands of his brother William in the book, in which William is said to have pushed Harry into a fish tank after claiming that Markle was “difficult”, “rude” and ” abrasive”.
This excerpt was also read in Bradby’s interview, with Harry saying that he had “seen a red mist on William”.
Therapy sessions that “helped him manage anger and frustration” kept Harry from fighting back, he said.
Returning to a much-discussed topic, Harry said the fight arose after false narratives emanating from the British tabloid press.
Other excerpts that emerged in recent days concerned Harry’s drug use, the loss of his virginity and the killing of 25 Taliban while serving in Afghanistan. On his drug use, Harry said in the ITV interview that the revelation was “important to be recognized”.
He will be interviewed at 7 pm EST on CBS. 60 minutes with Anderson Cooper later today, before appearing on the late show Y Good morning america morning.