Prince Harry admits to ‘drinking heavily,’ using psychedelic drugs during interview

Prince Harry has opened up about the decades-long wake of his mother Princess Diana’s demise, he turned to “drinking heavy” and experimented with a spate of mind-altering hard drugs.

During an interview with Anderson Cooper  on “60 Minutes,” Prince Harry, aged 38, answered questions about his tell-all book, “Spare,” which will be released on Tuesday.

Currently, Prince Harry has been on a promotional tour for the upcoming book, which is filled with deets like William allegedly getting into a physical altercation with Harry over Meghan Markle, and Harry having a frostbitten “todger” during William and Kate’s wedding ceremony.

The show host Anderson Cooper, asked Harry about his admitted substance abuse, which included alcohol, cocaine, pot and more in the past. Harry said he did it in response to his mother’s death.

“It was obvious to us as children that the British press was complicit in our mother’s plight and I had a lot of anger inside me which thankfully I never expressed to anyone,” he said. “But I’ve been drinking a lot. Because I wanted to numb the feeling or distract myself from it like…whatever I was thinking. And I would, you know, do drugs too.”

Prince Harry further said that he felt that using psychedelic drugs, Ayahuasca, psilocybin, mushrooms, helped him.

“I would never recommend people to do this recreationally, but doing it with the right people if you are suffering from a huge amount of loss, grief or trauma, then these things have a way of working as a medicine. For me, they cleared the windshield, the windshield of the misery of loss. They cleared away this idea that I had in my head that– that my mother, that I needed to cry to prove to my mother that I missed her. When in fact, all she wanted was for me to be happy.”

The reason why Harry began drinking and using drugs was that after Princess Diana’s tragic death, Harry and William shared “similar thoughts” on the belief that she was really gone.

“Maybe this is all part of a plan,” said Harry. “Then that she would call us and that we would go and join her, yeah.”

Prince Harry said he believed in this for “years.” But when he was 20, he asked to see the police file about the car crash that killed his mother, in order to have “proof.”

“Proof that she was in the car. Proof that she was injured. And proof that the very paparazzi that chased her into the tunnel were the ones that were taking photographs– photographs of her lying half dead on the back seat of the car,” he said.

Further, when the show host questioned Prince Harry if he thinks that he’s gotten all of the answers about what really happened when Princess Diana passed away in 1997, Harry said, “Truth be known, no. I don’t think I do. And I don’t think my brother does either. I don’t think the world does.”

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