Meghan Markle didn’t act on suicidal impulses while pregnant with her son because she didn’t want Prince Harry to be hurt by the loss of “another woman” in his life, the Duke of Sussex told Oprah Winfrey in a documentary series that premiered Friday.
“The thing that stopped her from seeing it through was how unfair it would be on me after everything that had happened to my mum and to now be put in a position of losing another woman in my life, with a baby inside of her, our baby,” he said in a conversation with Winfrey in “The Me You Can’t See,” a new Apple TV+ series on mental health..
Harry’s mother, Princess Diana was killed in a Paris car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old.
In the interview with Winfrey, Harry, 36, claims that Markle did not go through with suicide because she didn’t want history to repeat itself.
“The scariest thing for her was her clarity of thought,” the prince told Winfrey. “She hadn’t ‘lost it.’ She wasn’t crazy. She wasn’t self-medicating, be it through pills or through alcohol. She was absolutely sober. She was completely sane. Yet in the quiet of night, these thoughts woke her up.”
Harry said he did not go to his family when Markle felt suicidal because he was ashamed the situation had got “that bad”. He also said that the royals would likely not be able to help.
“That was one of the biggest reasons to leave, feeling trapped and feeling controlled through fear, both by the media and by the system itself, which never encouraged the talking about this kind of trauma,” said Harry, who left the royal family and moved to Canada with Markle last year. The couple now live in Los Angeles.
.”Certainly now I will never be bullied into silence,” he said.
The revelations follow the couple’s bombshell interview with Winfrey in March in which Markle first revealed that she contemplated suicide.
