Prince Harry touches on panic attacks, drug abuse after Princess Diana's death

Prince Harry is opening up about the mental trauma that her mother, Princess Diana's death was.

Speaking to Oprah on Apple TV+ show “The Me You Can’t See”, the royal family member revealed that he suffered panic attacks and descended into binge drinking and drugs while adjusting to the news of his mother's passing at the tender age of 13.

“I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling,” Harry confessed.

“But I slowly became aware that, OK, I wasn’t drinking Monday to Friday, but I would probably drink a week’s worth in one day on a Friday or a Saturday night," revealed Prince Harry.

“And I would find myself drinking, not because I was enjoying it but because I was trying to mask something.”

Prince Harry revealed that he eventually realized that not talking about late mother Diana was the best way to go about it. He kept his silence intact, dealing with grief on his own.

“I don’t want to think about her, because if I think about her then it’s going to bring up the fact that I can’t bring her back, and it’s just going to make me sad. What’s the point in thinking about something sad, what’s the point of thinking about someone that you’ve lost and you’re never going to get back again? And I just decided not to talk about it. No one was talking about it,” Harry recalls.

“If people said, ‘how are you?’ I’d be like ‘fine.’ Never happy. Never sad, just fine. Fine was the easy answer. But I was all over the place mentally,” he revealed.