Duchess Meghan
They had suicidal thoughts
Meghan and Harry are not holding back in their first interview after retiring as senior royals.
It has long been known that Duchess Meghan was not happy at court. But now she revealed how bad she really was.
On the night of Sunday and Monday, the US broadcaster CBS broadcast the eagerly awaited interview between Prince Harry, 36, and Duchess Meghan, 39, with talk queen Oprah Winfrey, 67. And as announced, the two spoke more openly than ever, especially Duchess Meghan. According to her, one of the main reasons for the Megxit was her poor mental state. She was completely desperate: "I saw no solution at all, I lay awake all night and just cried."
Duchess Meghan: "I didn't want to be alive anymore"
She even had suicidal thoughts: "I didn't want to be alive anymore. It was a clear, real, and frightening thought." She then spoke to Harry about her problems, including that her terrible intentions were not abstract. Meghan asked Harry not to leave her alone: "I thought that (a suicide, editor's note) would have made everything easier for everyone." At the time, she was just pregnant with Archie.
Did the court refuse her professional help?
The British royal family would even have refused to give her professional help. Meghan said she went to an institution and wanted to get support there. However, the court told her that this could damage the reputation of the royal family. She now speaks so openly about this matter because there are so many people who are afraid to raise their voices to ask for help.
Around the same time, during her pregnancy with Archie, there was also a case of racism at court. First, Meghan says that her son does not have a special security level and she does not know exactly why. Oprah Winfrey asks, "Was that because of his race?" And Meghan replies very seriously: "I'll give you an honest answer. In the months when I was pregnant, I learned that he would not get a title, no security and that one was afraid of how dark his skin would be … "
However, who had this conversation with her, Meghan did not reveal: "That would be very harmful to the person" if she told this. Incidentally, she is not afraid of a reaction from the royal family. She does not want to live a life in fear, she is simply concerned with the truth: "How can the court think that after all that I was, I would be silent?"
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Source used: "Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special"