Prince Harry interviewer details struggle as they confirm royal regret | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Trauma expert Dr Gabor Maté has expressed regret at interviewing Prince Harry in March 2023 as part of the launch of the royal’s memoir, Spare. In the conversation, which focused on themes of trauma, loss, and recovery, Maté suggested that Harry had ADHD based on the content of the book. Looking back, the academic and writer said he “lost himself” because of the conditions in which he lived with the father of two.
He made the admission while speaking to Dragons’ Den star Steven Bartlett on the Diary of a CEO podcast. “I had a feeling from the very beginning that I shouldn’t have agreed to do it the way they set it up, because… people have to buy a copy of Harry’s book to watch it,” he said. “And I thought, ‘This isn’t fair. Four million people have already bought the book. Why can’t they watch this interview? Do they need to buy another copy? In other words, I believed that a free public service should be given to some of the two people who can have a very interesting conversation,'” he said.
Confessing that he agreed to the talk out of “sheer opportunism”, he admitted: “So I lost myself even in agreeing to the format.”
What happened next did nothing to soothe her emotions, as both she and Harry had lost their autonomy during the conversation. “Harry and I wanted this to be made public free of charge, but the lawyer said you couldn’t do that because it was being promoted as a one-off incident and could lead to a class action lawsuit.
“As a result, I accepted something I really didn’t like,” he said.
“It’s not that I didn’t like the idea of talking to them (Harry). I didn’t like the idea of putting it behind the paywall. So I lost my temper accepting it,” he admitted.
“Then there was an incredible reaction to this on social media and the British media, mostly so negative, so derogatory, so dismissive and so distorted that I don’t even know how to talk about it,” he told Bartlett.
“I thought I would know better by this age. But you know what? It really affected me… What ended up happening was I was in a really negative mood.”
Mate admitted that he wanted help to deal with these feelings. “I called a friend of mine who is a psychiatrist and told him I was in a bad situation.
“I said… there’s all this bad press and distortion of who I am and my motives. He said, ‘What’s bothering you so much? And I said, ‘Not being seen’.”
