Reiterating her struggles with mental health as a working member of the Royal Family, Meghan Markle declared that she would “take one for the team.”
While she and Prince Harry unveiled their newest project, a support network for parents of children bullied on social media, including those who have lost a child to suicide, the Duchess of Sussex talked candidly about how she battled suicidal thoughts.
Her remarks come after her shocking admission to Oprah Winfrey in 2021 that she “just didn’t want to be alive anymore,” and that her suicidal thoughts were “very clear and real and frightening constant.”
In an attempt to assist parents, the 43-year-old discussed her trauma and how she didn’t feel supported by her in-laws on the CBS Sunday Morning program.
She said: “When you’ve been through any level of pain or trauma, I believe part of our healing journey certainly part of mine is being able to be really open about it.”
“I haven’t really scraped the surface on my experience. But I do think that I would never want someone else to feel that way. And I would never want someone else to be making those sort of plans. And I would never want someone else to not be believed.”
Meghan said she would “take the hit” if her and Prince Harry’s new initiative, the Parents’ Network, benefitted others when asked whether there was a relationship between her own experience and it.
“It’s worth it if sharing my story helps someone or inspires someone to truly check up on them and not assume that just because they look well, everything is okay,” the woman stated.
“I’ll take a hit for that.”
Harry went on to say that the indiscriminate nature of internet harassment was “one of the scariest things” about its possible consequences.
He said: “It could happen to absolutely anybody. We always talk about, in the olden days if your kids were under your roof, you knew what they were up to, right? And now they can be in the next-door room on a tablet, or on a phone and can be going down these rabbit holes and before you know it, within 24 hours, they could be taking their own life.”
The Parents’ Network is a free peer support network that offers information and guidance to help parents in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Its release comes after two years of testing.