Prince Harry set to appear on Good Morning America to promote his new documentary series

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Prince Harry told Good Morning America that his ‘services to others’ had helped him to heal during an exclusive interview to promote his series The Me You Can’t See today.

The Duke of Sussex, 36, who is currently living in his $14 million mansion in California having stepped back from royal duty, appeared on American TV alongside Oprah Winfrey this morning.

Speaking with host Robin Roberts, the father-of-one said: ‘It’s true for Oprah, it’s been true for me, starting the Invictus Games, to create something, to watch other people heal is part of our healing process.’

Meanwhile Oprah said the Duke had been incredibly committed to the project, revealing he had ‘turned up to every Zoom meeting’ with stacks of notes.   

The Duke and Duchess, 39, who have been highly critical of the British media and tabloids, have media allies who work for the organisation, including Omid Scobie.  

The royal discussed his chat with Oprah Winfrey on the new mental health series The Me You Can’t See, which he executive produced with her. 

Harry said: ‘The best we can all do collectively is to continue to talk and share stories that are relatable to people all around the world.’

Meanwhile Oprah explained:  ‘One of the things Prince Harry and I wanted was for people understand mental fitness and wellness is a spectrum. We’re all on the spectrum.’

The media mogul also showcased her close bond with the royal during the interview, revealing: ‘Harry was in every meeting, usually on zoom before I was, turning in his notes before i did, and i was like oh! Harry turned in his notes already.’

Harry immediately bantered back: ‘I didn’t know it was a competition but now that I know, I’m very glad I did.’

Oprah playfully laughed while she retorted: ‘Every time you beat me with the notes Harry! Everytime.’ 

Harry added: ‘There were so many people of all ages that need to help and that also are unable to heal or unable they need to heal. 

‘If we hold onto grief it manifests itself and appears later in life. That is what I have learnt in this process.’ 

Discussing Robin William’s son Zach’s part in the documentary, Harry said: ‘It’s a classic example of the parallel thread between what happened to him at his age and what happened to me at my age, its remarkably similar.

‘There was one thing he said, his service to others has helped heal him.

‘I think that was a key moment for Oprah, him and myself. It’s true for Oprah, its been true for me, starting the Invictus Games to create something to watch other people heal is part of our healing process.

‘Being able to put ourselves into someone else shoes and being able to watch that in the healing process is critical.’

Oprah added: ‘Lots of people have been through grief this year, some people lost both parents, relatives, friends haven’t been able to grieve properly.’

Harry concluded: ‘Globally, we’ve now all had a shared experience, albeit in different aspects and locations. 

‘We’ve all felt things that we’ve never felt before and now we should talk about things we’ve never talked about before.’

In a separate interview on CBS, Oprah was asked by her friend Gayle King if the new documentary series would ‘help the royal family.’

She said ‘I don’t know if it helps with the royal family. But this is what I do know — is that being able to express your own personal truth in a way that benefits you and also helps other people to see the truth in themselves, which is the reason why Harry agreed to have — sit down and have the conversation. 

‘The first — the interview that went around the world. And in this series, you will see that we are in conversation.’ 

Earlier this morning, Good Morning America’s official Twitter account revealed the Duke would be sitting down with Oprah Winfrey and host Robin Roberts for the discussion and released a teaser trailer. 

The clip of the interview was accompanied by dramatic heart-thudding music, while a voiceover said: ‘Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry, Robin Roberts, the all new TV interview. See the exclusive interview on GMA.’    

The Duchess of Sussex previously appeared on the breakfast programme, which airs on ABC and is owned by Disney.  

The interview is the latest in a line of carefully planned publicity moves from the couple.  

The new, outspoken prince who shares his emotions is a contrast to the ‘never complain, never explain,’ ‘keep calm and carry on’ mantras that are part of the prototypical British way. 

Meghan’s friend and Finding Freedom author Omid Scobie announced the news on Twitter, saying: ‘As some of you have already seen, Prince Harry will be joining @GMA …to talk exclusively about #TheMeYouCantSee — the brand new @AppleTV series he executive produced with @Oprah.” 

Last year, Harry and Meghan told newspaper executives at four British publications they wouldn’t ‘engage’ any longer with them unless it was through a lawyer. 

They emailed the editors of these popular publications: the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, the Sun and the Daily Express.

Harry and Meghan are not on social media but are now making millions through podcasts on Spotify and shows on Netflix, along with investments, after controversially quitting royal life, which would never have allowed them to launch such money-spinning projects.

Prince Harry today dropped another nuclear ‘truth bomb’ on the Royal Family accusing them of ‘total silence’ and ‘neglect’ when Meghan was suicidal, claiming his father Prince Charles made him ‘suffer’ as a child and insisting he would not be ‘bullied into silence’ when he alleged ‘The Firm’ ‘trapped’, smeared and abandoned them.

In a series of candid interviews with Oprah Winfrey on his new five-part AppleTV+ show, The Me You Can’t See, the Duke of Sussex said he and his wife felt abandoned by his relatives and this was one of their ‘biggest reasons’ for leaving for California last year. 

In yet another full-frontal attack on the royals he said: ‘Certainly now I will never be bullied into silence’, adding: ‘I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence, total neglect. We spent four years trying to make it work. We did everything that we possibly could to stay there and carry on doing the role and doing the job. But Meghan was struggling.’ 

He added: ‘That feeling of being trapped within the family, there was no option to leave. Eventually when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, “You can’t do this”, And it’s like, “Well how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?”. She [Meghan] was going to end her life. It shouldn’t have to get to that.’ 

Harry described how his wife first told him she wanted to kill herself, while six months pregnant with Archie, on the way to the Royal Albert Hall in London in January 2019, and she spoke to him of the ‘practicalities of how she was going to end her life’. Harry said it reminded him of his mother’s final weeks in 1997, saying that it was when he was 13 and watching his mother’s coffin that he first thought: ‘I didn’t want the life’  

He said: ‘Meghan decided to share with me the suicidal thoughts and the practicalities of how she was going to end her life’, adding that she later decided against it because she didn’t want Harry to lose ‘another woman in my life’.

The Duke said ‘history was repeating itself’, because Princess Diana was with Dodi Fayed, who was Egyptian by birth, when she died in 1997, saying there was a real fear that he would lose Meghan too.

‘History was repeating itself,’ he told Oprah. ‘My mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone who wasn’t white. And now look what’s happened. It’s incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life. Like, the list is growing. And it all comes back to the same people, the same business model, the same industry,’ he said.

The Duke binged on alcohol and drugs to cope with the death of his mother, saying that being in London is a ‘trigger’ for his ‘anxiety’, and describes how how he is still haunted by the ‘sound of the horse’s hooves going along The Mall’ as his mother’s coffin passed him. 

Harry also used the five-part renew his criticisms of his father’s parenting, and how the Queen had also brought up Charles, insisting he had to quit as a frontline royal to ‘break the cycle’.

He said: ‘My father used to say to me when I was younger, he used to say to both William and I, ‘Well, it was like that for me so it’s going to be like that for you,’ Harry says, ‘That doesn’t make sense. Just because you suffered, that doesn’t mean your kids have to suffer. In fact, quite the opposite. If you suffered, do everything you can to make sure that whatever negative experiences you had, you can make it right for your kids.’

‘Isn’t this all about breaking the cycle?’ he asked, rhetorically.  ‘Isn’t this all about making sure that history doesn’t repeat itself.’ 

Harry insisted he has ‘no regrets’ about his decision to emigrate to LA saying he believes Diana ‘helped me get here’ and that Meghan’s insistence he went into therapy has ‘equipped me to be able to take on anything’, including ‘reconciliation and healing’ with his British family. 

At one point he speaks to a therapist and is filmed having a form of therapy known as EDMR – known as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing.  Harry is seen comforting himself with a series of movements such as closing his eyes and crossing his arms while remembering events in his past.

‘It was like that for me so it’s going to be like that for you’: Harry criticises his father Charles for continuing the cycle of generational suffering 

Harry said: ‘That doesn’t make sense. Just because you suffered, that doesn’t mean your kids have to suffer. In fact, quite the opposite. If you suffered, do everything you can to make sure that whatever negative experiences you had, you can make it right for your kids.’

‘Isn’t this all about breaking the cycle?’ he asked, rhetorically.  ‘Isn’t this all about making sure that history doesn’t repeat itself.’

‘This is my mum. You haven’t even met her’: Harry hit out at mourners at Diana’s funeral who showed ‘ten times’ as much emotion as he could

The Duke of Sussex recounts how he was only allowed to show ‘one-tenth of the emotion everyone else was feeling,’ making him angry as he saw strangers on the street crying over Diana’s death.

‘This was my mother,’ he said, ‘you never even met her.’ 

He said on the show he was discouraged from talking about his mother’s death, and when people would ask him how he was feeling, he said, ‘fine was the easy answer.’  

Six-month pregnant Meghan shared with Harry HOW she was going to kill herself before they attended charity function at Royal Albert Hall  

Harry said: ‘I’m somewhat ashamed of the way that I dealt with it,’ he said, ‘and of course because of the system that we were in and the responsibilities and the duties that we had, we had a quick cuddle and then we had to get changed and had to jump into a convoy with a police escort and drive to the Royal Albert Hall for a charity event.’

‘There wasn’t an option to say, “You know what, tonight we’re not going to go, because just imagine the stories that come from that”,’ he said, recounting how once the lights dim Meghan started to cry and he felt ashamed he could not go to his family.

Prince Harry told Oprah that Meghan didn’t kill herself because she didn’t want him to lose another woman he loved 

‘The scariest thing for her was her clarity of thought,’ he said. ‘She hadn’t lost it. She wasn’t crazy. She wasn’t self-medicating, be it through pills or by alcohol. She was absolutely sober. She was completely sane. 

‘Yet in the quiet of night, these thoughts woke her up.’

He says he now would like to focus on his son, Archie, ‘rather than every time I look in his eyes wonder whether my wife is going to end up like my mother, and I’m going to have to look after him myself.’

‘That was one of the main reasons to leave,’ Harry said.

Prince Harry says Royals tried to STOP him and Meghan leaving after ‘she was going to end her life’ 

‘That feeling of being trapped within the family, there was no option to leave. Eventually when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, ‘You can’t do this.’ 

‘And it’s like, ‘Well how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?’ She [Markle] was going to end her life. It shouldn’t have to get to that.’

He said his biggest regret was not taking a stand earlier in his relationship with Markle, claiming a barrage of attacks on her won’t stop ‘until she dies.

‘It’s incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life,’ Harry said in the interview with Oprah. ‘Like the list is growing, and it all comes back to the same people, the same business model, the same industry.’

Harry claims Royals showed ‘total neglect’ for his and ‘struggling’ Meghan’s mental health

‘We spent four years trying to make it work,’ he says on the show. ‘We did everything that we possibly could to stay there and carry on doing the role and doing the job. But Meghan was struggling.’

He said the way Meghan was feeling reminded him of his own mother’s final days.

‘History was repeating itself,’ he said in an interview with Oprah. ‘My mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone who wasn’t white. And now look what’s happened.

Ultimately, he claimed, he and Meghan had to leave the U.K. to ‘put our mental health first.’

‘That’s what we’re doing,’ the prince said, ‘and that’s what we’ll continue to do.’ 

Harry says he was ‘worried and afraid’ to return to the UK for Prince Philip’s funeral     

‘I was worried about it, I was afraid,’ Harry told The Associated Press during a recent joint interview with Oprah Winfrey to promote the series.

He said he relied on coping skills learned in therapy.

‘It definitely made it a lot easier, but the heart still pounds,’ said Harry, the Duke of Sussex and grandson of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and her late husband Philip.

Harry tells trauma therapist of his fears about visiting the UK – and shares EMDR session that has ‘freed him’ 

Prince Harry said: ‘For most of my life I’ve always felt worried, concerned, a little bit tense and uptight whenever I fly back into the UK, whenever I fly back into London.

‘And I could never understand why. I was aware of it, I wasn’t aware of it at the time when I was younger, but after I started doing therapy stuff I became aware of it.

‘I was like, why do I feel so uncomfortable? And of course for me London is a trigger, unfortunately, because of what happened to my mum, and because of what I experienced and what I saw.’  

He told London-based anja Oakley, a UK-based psychotherapist who used to be a trauma specialist for London Underground: ‘Happens every time. I can’t remember the first time it happened, I can just remember the feeling, anxiety, like a hollow empty feeling almost of nervousness, is it fear? Everything feels tense.

‘It’s being the hunted, and being helpless and knowing that you can’t do anything about it. There is no escape. There is no way out of this.’

Prince Harry says he believed his ‘compassionate’ Oprah Winfrey interview would ‘leave door open to reconciliation’ with his family  

Prince Harry said: ‘The interview was about being real and authentic. And hopefully sharing an experience which we know to be incredibly relatable to people around the world, despite our unique privileged position.’

He continued: ‘Before the Oprah interview had aired, because of the combined efforts of The Firm and the media to smear her, I was woken up in the middle of the night to her crying into her pillow because she doesn’t want to wake me up because I’m already carrying too much. That’s heartbreaking.’

The couple were accused of ‘blowing up the royal family’ after the interview, in which they laid bare the extent of their rift with the Queen and other senior royals and accused The Firm of racism, sent shock waves around the world.

Harry says he felt forced to go to Nepal and his constant jet-setting as the family’s ‘yes man’ became ‘hectic to the point of exhaustion’  

Harry said: ‘I was travelling all over the place because, you know, from the family’s perspective I guess I was the person who like ”we need someone to go there. Nepal, Harry you go”.

‘I was always the yes man I was always the one willing to say yes. But that yes and yes and yes of course yes yes yes led to burnout.

‘And it was like someone had taken the lid off. All of the emotions that I had suppressed for so many years suddenly came to the forefront.’

He added: ‘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, that I was going to lose this woman who I could see spending the rest of my life with.’