Prince Harry admits to 'drinking heavy,' using hard drugs on '60 Minutes' - New York Post

Prince Harry has revealed that successful the decades-long aftermath of his parent Princess Diana’s death, helium turned to “drinking heavy” and — and sampled a bid of mind-altering hard drugs. 

During an interrogation with Anderson Cooper Sunday nighttime connected “60 Minutes,” Harry, 38, answered questions astir his tell-all book, “Spare,” which comes retired Tuesday. 

All week, Harry has been connected a promotional circuit for the book, which is filled with details specified arsenic William allegedly getting into a carnal altercation with Harry implicit Meghan Markle, and Harry having a frostbitten “todger” during William and Kate Middleton’s wedding. 

Cooper, 55, questioned Harry astir his admitted substance maltreatment — including booze, cocaine, cookware and much — successful the past. Harry said helium did it successful effect to his mother’s death.

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“It was evident to america arsenic kids the British press’ portion successful our mother’s misery and I had a batch of choler wrong of maine that luckily, I ne'er expressed to anybody,” helium said. “But I resorted to drinking heavily.  Because I wanted to numb the feeling, oregon I wanted to distract myself from however … immoderate I was thinking. And I would, you know, edifice to drugs arsenic well.” 

He besides said that helium felt that using psychedelics, Ayahuasca, psilocybin, mushrooms, helped him.

“I would ne'er urge radical to bash this recreationally — but doing it with the close radical if you are suffering from a immense magnitude of loss, grief oregon trauma, past these things person a mode of moving arsenic a medicine. For me, they cleared the windshield, the windshield of the misery of loss. They cleared distant this thought that I had successful my caput that– that my mother, that I needed to outcry to beryllium to my parent that I missed her. When successful fact, each she wanted was for maine to beryllium happy.”

Part of the crushed wherefore helium turned to drinking and drugs was that after Princess Diana’s tragic fatal car clang successful 1997, Harry and William shared “similar thoughts” connected the content that she was truly gone. 

“Maybe this is each portion of a plan,” said Harry. “Then that she would telephone america and that we would spell and articulation her, yeah.”

He said helium held onto this content for “years.” But erstwhile helium was 20, helium asked to spot the constabulary study astir the clang that killed his mother, successful bid to person “proof.”  

“Proof that she was successful the car. Proof that she was injured. And impervious that the precise paparazzi that chased her into the passageway were the ones that were taking photographs– photographs of her lying fractional dormant connected the backmost spot of the car,” helium said.

When Cooper asked Harry if helium feels that he’s gotten each of the answers astir what truly happened erstwhile Princess Diana died successful 1997, Harry said, “Truth beryllium known, no. I don’t deliberation I do. And I don’t deliberation my member does either. I don’t deliberation the satellite does.”