{"id":311269,"date":"2017-04-17T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=311269"},"modified":"2017-04-17T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T11:00:43","slug":"prince-harry-in-total-chaos-over-mother-dianas-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/prince-harry-in-total-chaos-over-mother-dianas-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry ‘in total chaos’ over mother Diana’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"
Prince Harry has revealed he sought counselling after spending nearly 20 years “not thinking” about the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, he said it was not until his late 20s that he processed the grief – after two years of “total chaos” and coming close to a “complete breakdown”.<\/p>\n
But he was in a “good place” because of the “process I have been through”.<\/p>\n
Harry, 32, also said boxing had “saved” him by helping him let out aggression.<\/p>\n
The Telegraph says Prince Harry had decided to talk about his past in the hope it would encourage people to break the stigma surrounding mental health issues.<\/p>\n
Along with his brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, he is promoting the Heads Together mental health campaign, the London Marathon’s charity of the year.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the paper’s Bryony Gordon, Prince Harry said: “I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years, has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but my work as well.”<\/p>\n
He added: “I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and all sorts of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle.”<\/p>\n
‘Head in the sand’<\/strong><\/p>\n The Princess of Wales died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.<\/p>\n Prince Harry said: “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?”<\/p>\n “(I thought) it’s only going to make you sad, it’s not going to bring her back. So from an emotional side, I was like ‘right, don’t ever let your emotions be part of anything.'”<\/p>\n