Meghan Markle Calls Herself ‘The Most Thrown Person’ In The World

Meghan Markle talks about the harmful effects of social media on mental health – and shares how trolling has affected him over the years.

Meghan, 44, and her husband, Prince Harryvisited mental health charity Batyr at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne as part of their tour of Australia on Thursday, April 16. During a chat with young people at the event, Meghan said she was “bullied and attacked” every day on social media for ten years and described herself as once “the most trolled person in the world.” (He previously made similar claims during a 2020 podcast interview.)

“Now, I’m still here,” he told the audience Thursday, on PA Media. “And when I think about all of you and what you’re going through, I think a lot of that I have to understand that you know that industry, that multi-billion dollar industry, that’s completely focused and brutally predictable to get clicks — that’s not going to change. So you’ve got to be tougher than that.”

The Duchess of Sussex went on to say that social media companies are “not encouraged to stop” going viral, noting that she likes listening to young people because their experiences “really ring true to me in a real way.”

Harry, meanwhile, said social media “has led to a lot of loneliness for a lot of people,” adding that he has found relief in therapy.

“I waited until I was like a baby, very old, lying on the kitchen floor,” recalled the Duke of Sussex, 41. “Until I said, ‘Okay, maybe this is a cure – maybe I should try it.’

Earlier this week, Harry spoke openly about feeling out of sorts during the early days of parenthood. He became a father in 2019 when he and Meghan welcomed son Prince Archie, now 6. They are also parents to daughter Princess Lilibet, 4.

“I definitely felt cut off because my wife is the one who created life, and I was there to see it,” said Harry during the Movember event in Melbourne on Wednesday, April 15.

She went on to explain that she sought treatment to make sure she was ready to be as present as possible for her children.

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“Of course, from a therapeutic perspective, you want to be the best version of yourself for your children,” she explained. “And I knew I had things from the past that I needed to deal with so, I’m getting ready to clean up the past. I think the biggest tip my therapist in the UK gave me was just to be aware of how you feel after the baby is born.”

Harry also said that he considers his children “enhanced,” meaning that he wants them to be better raised and supported than he was.

“That’s not the way I was taught, but that was my take on that — I can say that I’m my father or my children develop me,” he continued. “That’s the way I’m taking, knowing that as the country is going in the right direction, the children we are raising in this country today need to improve.”