Prince Harry Breaks Silence In 'Heart of Invictus' About Life In Military

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Speaking in his Netflix series Heart of Invictus, Prince Harry opened up about how he experienced an ‘unraveling’ after returning home from his tour of duty in Afghanistan.

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00:00 Prince Harry is sharing new details about his time in the military.

00:03 The Duke of Sussex got candid about his deployment in his docuseries that has many people talking.

00:12 Speaking at his Netflix series Heart of Invictus, Prince Harry opened up about how he experienced

00:16 an unraveling after returning home from his tour of duty in Afghanistan.

00:21 The Duke of Sussex also noted that this situation triggered the trauma of losing his mother,

00:25 Princess Diana.

00:26 Everyone's going to struggle at some point.

00:27 I hear demons saying, "You're not going to do this."

00:31 If your goal was to make your family happy, you've achieved it.

00:36 My dad just scored that.

00:37 The new series Heart of Invictus from Harry and Meghan follows service members from around

00:41 the globe "who have suffered life-changing injuries or illnesses as they prepare to compete

00:46 in the competition."

00:47 The couple's production company, Archwall Productions, announced the release back in

00:50 2021.

00:51 However, a lot of people are drawing their attention to some of the comments Harry made

00:54 in the series about his own trauma.

00:56 In the show, Harry states, "I can only speak for my personal experience.

01:01 My tour of Afghanistan in 2012 flying Apaches, somewhere after that there was an unraveling

01:06 and the trigger to me was actually returning from Afghanistan.

01:09 But the stuff that was coming up was from 1997, from the age of 12, losing my mom at

01:14 such a young age.

01:15 The trauma that I had, I was never really aware of.

01:18 It was never discussed."

01:19 Harry went on to mention that he really didn't talk about it and also "suppressed it like

01:24 most youngsters would have done."

01:25 Harry went on to mention that he did not know a lot of what to do or how to handle the feelings

01:29 later on in life and started to feel numb at times.

01:32 Harry mentioned, "I didn't have that support structure, that network, that expert advice

01:36 to identify what was actually going on with me.

01:39 Unfortunately, like most of us, the first time you really consider therapy is when you're

01:42 lying on the floor in the fetal position, probably wishing you had dealt with some of

01:46 this stuff previously, and that's what I really want to change."

01:49 Now, the prince served in the military for roughly 10 years and undertook a total of

01:53 two tours in Afghanistan.

01:55 Harry first served in Helmand Province in 2007 and 2008, but his tour was cut short

01:59 after one media outlet broke a news embargo and revealed his presence in the war zone.

02:04 He later returned for a second tour in 2012.

02:07 Harry mentioned that he was on board an air hospital in a plane where some of the most

02:10 indescribable sights took place.

02:13 He said he saw "only what people had talked about."

02:15 The Duke of Sussex stated in the series, "That was the real trigger, from now seeing the

02:20 real cost of the war.

02:21 Not just those individuals, but also their families and what they would mean and how

02:25 their lives would literally change forever."

02:26 Harry mentioned that the flight also helped him realize that he too needed help.

02:30 Harry has been open about his mental health over the years and wrote about more of his

02:33 experiences in his 2023 memoir, "Spare."

02:35 For more on this, we'll keep you updated @WHATSTRENDING.

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