Meghan Markle made a heartwarming gesture toward Prince Harry while opening up about her suicidal thoughts.
The Duchess was seen lovingly clutching her husband’s knee on the set of CBS News Sunday Morning as she spoke, spilling about feelings she was subjected to as a working royal.
The Suits star first detailed such feelings in March 2021, when she told Oprah Winfrey she ‘just didn’t want to be alive anymore’ because of abuse she was suffering online.
This time , Markle told host Jane Pauley how she hope her candor will help youngsters around the world navigate similar feelings after surfing the web.
Haley in turn asked the 43-year-old about her decision to open up about her response to ‘bullying and abuse’ on social media, spurring Markle to answer while reaching out to her spouse for support.
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Meghan Markle made a heartwarming gesture toward husband Prince Harry while opening up about her suicidal thoughts on CBS News Sunday
‘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,’ Markle said as Harry, 39, looked on.
‘I 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,’ she added.
‘[A]nd I would never want someone else to not be believed.’
‘I’ll take a hit for that.’
She went on to sir her desire to protect her two children, 5-year-old Archie and 3-year-old Lilibet, from such feelings, as well as the online content that can cause them.
Harry echoed this wish, before revealing some of the strategies the two take to do what’s best for their brood.
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The Duchess was seen lovingly clutching her husband’s knee as she spoke, spilling for the second time ever about feelings she was subjected to as a working royal
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‘Our kids are young – they’re 3 and 5. They’re amazing,’ Markle said, flashing a smile. ‘But all you want to do as parents is protect them – so as we can see what’s happening in the online space, we know that there’s a lot of work to be done’
‘Our kids are young – they’re 3 and 5. They’re amazing,’ Markle said, flashing a smile. ‘But all you want to do as parents is protect them – so as we can see what’s happening in the online space, we know that there’s a lot of work to be done there.
‘And we’re just happy to be able to be a part of change for good,’ she continued, referring to a program from their Archewell Foundation called The Parents Network, meant to support parents whose kids have been impacted negatively by social media.
Pauley interjected: ‘You hope that when your children ask for help, someone, you know, is there to give it.’
This spurred Harry, who famously struggled as a boy after the death of his mother. to speak up, saying, ‘If you know how to help.
‘At this point, we’ve got to the stage where almost every parent needs to be a first responder,’ he went on.
‘And even the best first responders in the world wouldn’t be able to tell the signs of possible suicide.
‘That is the terrifying piece of this’, he added.
Both added how their initiative, after two years of testing, is now available for parents in the US, UK, and Canada, with Meghan encouraging onlookers to ‘look at it through the lens of ‘What if it was my daughter? What if it was my son?
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Meghan at one point encouraged onlookers to ‘look at it through the lens of ‘What if it was my daughter? What if it was my son? ‘If you look at it through the lens as a parent, there’s no way to see that any other way than to try to find a solution’
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Prince Archie, 5, seen with his parents Harry and Markle and younger sister Lilibet, 3, in 2021
‘If you look at it through the lens as a parent, there’s no way to see that any other way than to try to find a solution,’ she said.
The Parents Network and its ‘No Child Lost to Social Media’ campaign is the latest fruit of the pair’s nonprofit, which in March awarded $100,000 to a Ghanaian-American scientist to advance their work in civil and human rights.
Joy Buolamwini, 35, received the award for her ‘research to overcome racist and sexist biases in artificial intelligence’, as head of an digital advocacy non-profit that ‘unmasks’ the harms and biases of AI toward women and people of color.
Boasting two masters degrees from Oxford and MIT, she wrote on her website shortly before receiving the ward ‘the rising frontier for civil rights require algorithmic justice’.
Harry and Meghan, in turn, said they ‘could not agree more.’
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