Prince Harry appeared on CBS' '60 Minutes' for an interview with Anderson Cooper where he discussed tense family ties and more ahead of the release of his memoir 'Spare'
were, for a time, content with helping to keep the door shut. All they asked for in exchange was their support. But, as he told Cooper: “There becomes a point when silence is betrayal.”
During the candid interview, Prince Harry spoke of the devastating loss of his mother, Princess Diana, when he was 12 years old, and his inability to cry about it, or even accept she was dead until he was in his 20s. He grappled with acceptance by visiting the Paris tunnel where she died in the car crash, turned to drugs and drinking, and even psychedelics. He credits his military service in Afghanistan as a saving grace.
“My military career saved me in many regard,” he said, adding: “[It] got me out of the spotlight from the U.K. press. I was able to focus on a purpose larger than myself, to be wearing the same uniform as everybody else, to feel normal for the first time in my life. And accomplish some of the biggest challenges that I ever had.”
In one of the lighter moments from the interview — where he addressed painful details regarding the death of his mother, his family’s grappling with him marrying Markle , and more — he joked: “There’s no prince autopilot button you can press” when in the military.
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