Slowly, Harry began to take note of his weekend binge-drinking. "I would find myself drinking not because I was enjoying it, but because I was trying to mask something," he says.
In the docuseries, Harry shows viewers the experience of using EMDR therapy to address the discomfort he feels when he flies into London, which he said reminds him of the loss of his mother. Harry says he feels nervous, tense and hollowed out. He thinks of being "hunted," "helpless" and as though "there is no escape."
Harry says addressing his trauma was essential both for his own well-being and the health of his relationship with his wife, the Duchess of Sussex.
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"One of the biggest lessons that I've ever learned in life is you've sometimes got to go back and to deal with really uncomfortable situations and be able to process it in order to be able to heal," he says.
In Episode 2, Harry revisits the evening he and Meghan spent at London's Royal Albert Hall, shortly after his wife, then pregnant with their first child, shared she was having suicidal thoughts. (The duchess first opened up about her suicidal ideation in the couple's sit-down with Oprah, which aired on CBS in March.)
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Harry felt "sorry for (Meghan), but I'm also really angry with myself that we're stuck in this situation. I was ashamed that it got this bad. I was ashamed to go to my family, because, to be honest with you, like a lot of other people my age could probably relate to, I know that I'm not gonna get from my family what I need."
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