Some eat cake. Others have a party. But Meghan Markle, on her 43rd birthday, August 4th, opened up to CBS This Morning host Jane Pauley about her past suicidal thoughts when she was a working royal in Britain.
Meghan Connected Her Own Experiences To Children Who’ve Been Bullied
During the interview, Meghan Markle talked about her decision to talk about wanting to self-harm during the infamous Oprah interview with her and Prince Harry. She told the host in March 2021 that she
“just didn’t want to be alive anymore.”
Meghan also spoke to Jane Pauley about being bullied on social media. The couple are promoting a new program through Archewell called the Parents Network. It supports parents whose children have been affected by trauma related to social media use.
Meghan connected her own experiences to those of the children and teens who were bullied on social media.
“When you’ve been through any level of pain or trauma, I believe part of our healing journey, certainly part of mine, is being able to really open up about it,” Meghan said. “I really scraped the surface on my experience, but I do think that I would never want someone else to feel that way, and I would never want someone else to not be believed.”
Meghan hopes that being candid about what she went through may help others. During the Oprah interview, the Duchess of Sussex made several bold claims about the royal family. One of them was that she was denied help because she wasn’t a “paid employee.”
She said she told a senior member of the Palace that she’d “never felt this way before” and thought she needed to “go somewhere to get help.” She said the Palace was concerned with their image, not that Meghan was struggling.
Meghan told Oprah that she reached out to one of Princess Diana’s best friends because the Palace didn’t support her.
Harry Admitted He Didn’t Handle Meghan Markle’s Issues Well
“When I joined that family, that was the last time I saw my passport, my driver’s license, my keys, all of that gets turned over,”
she explained. She said Harry had “saved my life” by agreeing to move to Los Angeles.
In the Netflix docuseries “Harry and Meghan,” Harry admitted that he didn’t handle the situation particularly well. He said he dealt with it as “institutional Harry,” not “husband Harry.”
At the time, he said he could only think about the duties and responsibilities they had to meet as working royals.
Meghan Markle said that she was falling apart at the Royal Albert Hall charity event in 2019. She pointed out that they may be smiling in the pictures, but their knuckles were white because they were both having difficulty just holding on.
That’s when Harry said he realized the gravity of the situation because he didn’t want to lose Meghan like he’d lost his mother, Princess Diana.
“So if me, voicing what I have overcome, will save someone or encourage someone in their life to check in on them and not assume that the appearance is good so everything’s okay, then it’s worth it,”
Meghan expressed.
“I’ll take the hit for that.”
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