While Meghan and Archie slept
Prince Harry used drugs until two years ago
With Prince Harry, no stone is left unturned. In his biography “Reserve”, the royal unpacks everything – even that he was still taking drugs at the age of 36.
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Prince Harry says in his biography that he used cannabis regularly two years ago.
Berit-Silja GründlersEditor People
It is no longer a secret that the Duke of Sussex (38) was not averse to intoxicants in his youth and early twenties. Prince Harry used cocaine, ketamine, hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana, as he made public in the first chapters of his book “Reserve”, which has been available since Tuesday. The Royal consumed the latter, he continues, until a few years ago.
Cannabis is said to have helped him manage his post-war panic attacks and public anxiety. “I would never recommend that people take them recreationally,” Harry said of psychedelics in an interview with 60 Minutes magazine. “But if you do it with the right people, if you’re going through a big loss, grief or trauma, then these things can work like medicine.”
When everyone was asleep, the prince smoked a joint
After fleeing the royal family and Great Britain, the Sussexes lived with director and actor Tyler Perry (53) in California at the end of March 2020. Harry’s and Meghan’s son Archie (3) took his first steps these days, and the little family’s life was fine, Prince Harry describes the time. Nevertheless, he couldn’t give up drugs, as the biography reads: “Late in the evening, when everyone else was asleep, I roamed the house to see if all the doors and windows were closed. Then I would sit on the balcony or the edge of the garden and roll a joint.”
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Harry leaves open whether his wife Meghan knew about the consumption. Also, if he still smokes marijuana today. But these moments, alone in his friend’s garden, gave him a feeling of security, “of life”.
Just a few weeks later, Harry, Meghan and Archie had to leave Tyler Perry’s house again: they were besieged by photographers. The couple bought their mansion in Montecito, California, where they still live today. But now with two children, daughter Lilibet was born on June 4, 2021 in the USA.
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