Piers Morgan said he is “sick” of Prince Harry after it was claimed he lacked a strong “support network” when he returned from his first tour of Afghanistan in 2008.
The Duke of Sussex, 38, added that “no one” in his family was able to help him.
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Piers reacted to a post of an article, which read: “Harry claims he had ‘no support’ for his mental health issues after Afghanistan tour in his new Netflix series… despite previously telling one interviewer how much his brother had helped him.”
In response, the TalkTV presenter, 58, replied: “Are recollections varying again? So sick of this spoiled twerp constantly playing the victim.”
Harry made the admission in his new Netflix docuseries Heart Of Invictus, which follows a group of athletes on their road to the Paralympic-style sporting competition the Invictus Games, which Harry set up in 2014 for injured and sick military personnel and veterans.
In the second of five episodes, several of the former service personnel talk about how the war took a mental toll on their health.
Harry said he “didn’t have that support structure, that network or that expert advice to identify actually what was going on with me” after admitting he was angry when he returned from a tour of duty.
He stressed that it was not his army experiences that had traumatised him, rather that it had triggered his trauma from losing his mother Princess Diana when he was so young.
“But the stuff that was coming up was from 1997, from the age of 12, losing my mum at such a young age, the trauma that I had I was never really aware of, it was never discussed, I didn’t really talk about it – and I suppressed it like most youngsters would have done but when it all came fizzing out I was bouncing off the walls, I was like what is going on here, I am now feeling everything as opposed to being numb,” Harry explained.
He added: “The biggest struggle for me is no one around me could really help, I didn’t have that support structure that network, or that expert advice to identify what was actually going on with me.”
In a 2017 interview, Harry had previously praised his brother Prince William for his support and other close friends for encouraging him to see a therapist.
After getting back from his second tour in 2013 Harry opened up about his feelings to William, as he said six years ago: “My brother, you know, bless him, he was a huge support to me. He kept saying this is not right, this is not normal, you need to talk to [someone] about stuff, it’s OK.”
Prince Harry’s Netflix documentary Heart Of Invictus is available to watch on Netflix.
