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 Harry, whose mother Diana died in a car crash in Paris in
1997 when he was just 12, said he had come "very close to a
complete breakdown" on several occasions after shutting down his
emotions, impacting both his work and his personal life.
"My way of dealing with it was sticking my head in the sand,
refusing to ever think about my mum, because why would that
help? It's only going to make you sad, it's not going to bring
her back," he said in an interview published on Monday.
"So from an emotional side, I was like 'right, don't ever let
your emotions be part of anything'."
He said his older brother Prince William had encouraged him to
seek help and he had been to see "a shrink" several times. He
also took up boxing to help deal with aggression after feeling
he was "on the verge of punching someone".
"(I) started to have a few conversations and actually all of a
sudden, all of this grief that I have never processed started to
come to the forefront and I was like, there is actually a lot of
stuff here that I need to deal with," he said, adding that he
had experienced two years of "total chaos".
The princes' mother Diana was married to heir-to-the-throne
Prince Charles between 1981 and 1996, when the couple divorced.
She was killed when the car she was in crashed while being
chased by paparazzi on motorbikes.
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Harry, who is fifth in line to the throne, described at times facing
anxiety during royal engagements but said he was now in a "good
place".
He served in the British Army for 10 years, including two stints in
Afghanistan, and now works with several charities including
supporting wounded soldiers. Along with William and William's wife
Catherine, he also set up a mental health charity.
"Because of the process I have been through over the past two and a
half years, I’ve now been able to take my work seriously, been able
to take my private life seriously as well, and been able to put
blood, sweat and tears into the things that really make a difference
and things that I think will make a difference to everybody else,"
he said.
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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