Meghan Markle told Oprah Winfrey that she contemplated suicide and eventually told the Duke of Sussex in order to get help.
“So many people are afraid of being on the receiving end of that conversation because they don’t feel as though they have the right tools to be able to give the right advice, but what you’re saying is you’re there,” the Duke of Sussex said Friday in a newly released “town hall” episode of his Apple TV series with“Listen, because listening and being part of that conversation is, without a doubt, the best first step that you can take,” he added.
before the couple had to attend an event in January 2019, a year before they stepped back from royal duties. The Duchess of Sussex was pregnant with the couple’s son, Archie, at the time.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex pictured at the Cirque du Soleil premiere of"Totem" at the Royal Albert Hall on Jan. 16, 2019, in London. Before the event, Meghan told Harry that she was experiencing suicidal ideation.
The Sussexes then had to “then step out into a wall of cameras and pretend as though everything’s OK.” “I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence, total neglect,” the duke said on earlier episodes of the Apple TV series. “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.