Prince William depressed? He gives himself up like never before

A major suffering. This Sunday, December 5, listeners to Apple’s podcast, “Time To Talk”, were able to learn more about Prince William. The latter delivered without taboo on the important moments of his life. And some affected him more than others to the point of feeling “as if the whole world was dying”.

And it is mainly because of a moment in his career that the grandson of Elizabeth II had to face a depressive episode. In 2012, when serving as a helicopter pilot for the air ambulance service, Prince William had to intervene in a car accident in which a little boy was injured. Five years after the events, the boy’s brain was damaged and since that day, the event has been engraved in the mind of Kate Middleton’s husband. Taken by depressive feelings, he confides that they intensified a few weeks later. “It’s as if someone had put a key in a lock and opened it without my giving permission to do so”, adding that “you just feel everyone’s pain, everyone’s in pain”. A complicated period for him who had “Never felt this before” and that he managed to overcome thanks to his entourage and the family of the little boy.

Very committed to the cause of mental health

In this 38-minute podcast, Prince William also returned to happier moments in his personal life, evoking a memory with his mother Diana and his brother Harry where he sang a song by Tina Turner or a memory of his daughter. , Princess Charlotte, dancing in a tutu in the kitchen to a song by Shakira. With his heart-to-heart confessions, the Heir to the Throne shows that depression can affect anyone. Mental health is also a theme in which he invests himself at conferences and galas.