Prince Harry says he was unable to ‘cry or feel’ after Diana’s death and it wasn’t until he was 28 ‘when a circumstance happened’ that his emotions were ‘sprayed all over the wall’ and ‘it was chaos’

Prince Harry spoke of his inability to “feel or cry” after his mother’s death, until years later when his emotions “spouted everywhere” in his recently released Netflix documentary.

In Episode 4 of Sussex’s Heart Of Invictus series launched today, Harry shares a one-on-one moment with Darrell Ling as he competes in the indoor rowing category for Canada.

When the couple opened up about trauma, Darrell told him, “I’m glad you went through this and know how we feel.”

Harry admitted that he can’t “pretend to know what you’ve been through,” but talked about how the trauma of losing his mother hit him at age 28 as a result of a “circumstance” – and how everything was a “chaos” ‘ became.

He revealed that a therapist advised him to put himself in a mason jar and take control of what comes in and what stays out.

“I had a moment in my life where I didn’t know about it, but because of the trauma of losing my mother when I was twelve, I had no emotions all these years, I couldn’t cry, I couldn’t cry. feeling. I didn’t know it then,” he said.

“And it wasn’t until later in life, when I was 28, that a circumstance arose where the first few bubbles started coming out and then all of a sudden it was like somebody shook and it went ‘poof’.. and then it was chaos.

Harry shared how the trauma of losing his mother hit him at the age of 28 due to a ‘circumstance’ – and how everything became ‘chaos’

Prince Harry spoke of his inability to “feel or cry” after Diana’s death

Earl Spencer, Prince William, Prince Harry and the Prince of Wales at Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997

“My emotions were sprayed all over the wall everywhere I went and I thought, how on earth can I control this?

“I’ve gone from nothing to everything and now I have to get a mason jar and put myself in it, put myself in it, leave the lid open and my therapist said, ‘you choose what goes in and everything else bounces back’.” ‘

Darrell talked to Harry about his own “demons” and how he had hundreds of them.

He tells the Duke of Sussex he wasn’t going to row, but his coach pushed him into it, because he knew he could do it.

“But I’ve got demons saying you’re not going to do this. You get these things and you just have to take them off your shoulder,’ said the oarsman.

In a lighter moment during their interaction, Harry asks him if he has any tattoos.

As Darrell gets up and turns around, Harry jokes, “If it’s on your ass, I don’t know if I want to see it.”

As the pair chatted, Harry said to Darrell in a poignant moment, “I’m so glad you’re here.”

The pair opened up about trauma in the new Netflix documentary

Darrell talked to Harry about his own “demons” and how he had hundreds of them

The Sussexes’ latest project in their £80 million deal with Netflix was released this morning,

In another episode, The Duke of Sussex also said that he was unaware of the trauma he still had from his mother, Princess Diana, dying in Paris in August 1997 when he was only 12 years old.

Harry said that when he returned from the war in 2008, the “biggest struggle for me was that no one around me could really help,” adding: “I didn’t have that support structure, that network or that expert advice to identify what was really going on. continue with me.’

He also told the show, “Unfortunately, like most of us, the first time you consider therapy is when you’re lying on the floor in a fetal position, probably wishing you had dealt with this stuff before.” And that’s what I really want to change.’

All five episodes of the docuseries were made available at 8am UK time (midnight California time), after previous speculation that Netflix had canceled them.

The show was released ahead of next month’s Invictus Games, which will take place in Dusseldorf over eight days from September 9 and will be attended by Harry and Meghan.

Harry is the executive producer and the show is part of the Sussexes’ deal with Netflix – with the main output so far being last year’s controversial Harry & Meghan documentary, which included a series of swipes at members of the royal family. contained.