The Duchess of Sussex has opened up about her struggles with mental health and suicidal thoughts as she and her husband launched an initiative to tackle children’s online safety.
Meghan, who revealed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey three years ago that she considered taking her own life while a working royal, said she hoped speaking out could help others.
“When you’ve gone through any level of pain or trauma, I believe part of our healing journey — certainly part of mine — is to be able to really open up,” he said Sunday. in a joint interview with Prince Harry on the US network CBS.
“And you know, I haven’t really scraped the surface on my experience. But I think I would never want anyone else to feel that way. And I would never want anyone else to make these kinds of plans. And I would never want anyone else to otherwise do not believe.
“So if what I’ve overcome comes out, it’s going to save somebody, or it’s going to encourage somebody in their life to really really check themselves and not assume that looks are good, so everything’s OK, then it’s worth it. I’ll take a shot for that reason.”
The Duchess, 43, was speaking as the couple, parents to Prince Archie, five, and Princess Lilibet, three, launched Parents Network, in partnership with his Archewell Foundation, to provide an online community and resources to help combat the harms of social media. The No Child Lost to Social Media campaign was created after a two-year pilot program with families whose children had felt the harmful effects of social media.
Prince Harry said the pain these families suffered could happen to anyone. “We’re still talking in the old days if your kids were under your roof, you know what they were doing. At least they were safe, right? And now, they could be in the next door room on a tablet or on a phone and they can go down these rabbit holes and before you know it, within 24 hours, they could take their lives.
In the couple’s 2021 interview with Winfrey, Meghan told the chat show host: “Look, I was really embarrassed to say it at the time, and I was embarrassed to admit it especially to Harry, because I know how much loss he suffered. But he knew that if I didn’t say it, he would … and he just didn’t want to be alive anymore. It was a clear, real, and constant thought.”
Speaking on the Parents Network, she told CBS Sunday: “I think you have to start somewhere, to look through the lens of, ‘What if it was my daughter?’ What if it was my son? My son, or my daughter who comes home, who are happy, who I love, and one day, right under my roof, our whole life changes because of something that was completely out of our control? parent, the only way to see the problem was to try to find a solution.
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