Meghan Markle Mentions Prince Harry's Help in Getting Her Mental Health Care in 'Archetypes'

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said on her podcast that it was who found her first professional referral when she was at her “worst point.” “My husband had found a referral for me to call,” the Duchess of Sussex told her guest, Hindi language film star Deepika Padukone. “And I called this woman—she didn't know I was even calling her.

And she was checking out at the grocery store. I could hear the little beep, beep, and I was like, ‘Hi…’ and I'm introducing myself and you can literally hear her going, 'Wait, sorry.

I'm just. Who is this?'” Meghan told the apparently confused woman on the phone that she was calling because she needed help. “And she could hear the dire state that I was in,” she explained.  "But I think it's for all of us to be really honest about what it is that you need and to not be afraid to make peace with that, to ask for it."If anyone knows the importance of being honest about asking for help when you need it, it would be Meghan Markle.

In her , Meghan said she knows from personal experience how hard it is to be asking for help and be told “no.” At her darkest moment, she said, she was thinking seriously about suicide. “I went to the institution and said that I needed to go somewhere to get help, said that I’ve never felt this way before and I need to go somewhere, and they said I couldn’t, that it wouldn’t be good for the institution,” she told Oprah.