Prince Harry Admits To Boozing And Doing Cocaine After Diana’s Death

By Ebenezer Donkoh Last updated Jan 9, 2023

How best do you deal with uncomfortable situations? Do you drown your sorrows in booze or prayer?Well, Prince Harry has revealed how he dealt with the heavy blow of the passing of her mum Princess Diana.

In a new interview with Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes” Sunday night as part of the Duke of Sussex’s media blintz for his controversial memoir titled, “Spare”, Prince Harry revealed that he resorted to heavy drinking and taking drugs — including cocaine — to deal with all the grief.

Anderson set the stage, asking Harry if he blamed the paparazzi for their alleged role in the 1997 car crash that claimed Diana’s life in Paris when he was only 12.Harry responded, “Yeah, I mean, it was obvious to us as kids the British press’ part in our mother’s misery and I had a lot of anger inside of me that luckily, I never expressed to anybody.”

He continued … “But I resorted to drinking heavily. Because I wanted to numb the feeling, or I wanted to distract myself from how … whatever I was thinking. And I would, you know, resort to drugs as well.”

In a voiceover, Anderson noted Harry smoked weed and ingested cocaine because the prince felt “hopeless” and “lost” in his late 20’s.Harry then revealed he was unable to cry over his mom’s death due to the burden he felt, so he tried experimental treatments using hallucinogenic mushrooms and other psychedelics.

“I would never recommend people to do this recreationally,” Harry said. “But doing it with the right people if you are suffering from a huge amount of loss, grief or trauma, then these things have a way of working as a medicine.”He added that the treatments wiped away the idea “that I needed to cry to prove to my mother that I missed her when, in fact, all she wanted was for me to be happy.”

To close the painful chapter, Harry said he reviewed the police file containing images showing cameramen snapping photos of Diana lying dead in the car.He also visited the accident scene to confirm his belief that the paps chasing Diana caused the deadly collision — instead of his mom’s chauffeur, whom the police said was to blame.

Source: TMZ

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