Prince Harry And Robin Williams’ Son Zak Share A Similar Experience

British Royal family news reveals Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex  gets candid once again in the latest episode of The Me You Can’t See: A Path Forward, but this time around, he’s not sharing his pain with Winfrey or some interviewer, this time, he’s sharing his pain with someone who really understands.

Williams’ son Zak, 38, opened up about what it’s like to grieve for a loved one who died untimely when the rest of the world is watching, and Harry, 36, gets it.

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Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey co-created The Me You Can’t See as a means to stop the stigmatization that goes with mental struggles and create a global awareness for mental health. The series, which quickly became the most viewed show on AppleTV+ just after its debut, features different voices from different parts of the world as they share their mental struggles.

In the latest episode of the docuseries, Harry continues his journey to healing and exposing the traumas he suffered after losing his mother by talking to actor Zak William.

While someone may not immediately see what connects these two characters, one a prince and the other an actor, together, they were able to find their kindred spirit as they shared their experiences dealing with grief.
For everyone who knows a thing or two about the royal family, you’ll remember that Prince Harry lost his mother Princess Diana in a tragic accident at the age of 12. While Zak was much older than the prince, as he suddenly lost his father at the age of 31, the experiences feel the same for them. To both of them, they’re public figures who lost a loved one under the watchful eyes of the public.

“For my end, it was hard to really separate, initially, the process of privately grieving versus sharing the grieving with the general public, both the American public and the world, and I had trouble differentiating that grieving process at first and it was really challenging for me,” Zak related to Harry. “I found myself extremely emotionally dysregulated and feeling vulnerable and exposed when I wasn’t ready to be vulnerable. And that created a major challenge for me.”

Zak opened up about feeling frustrated about not getting to grieve probably for a year and a half because he couldn’t do it personally.

“I’m very thankful and appreciative that I did recognize how to set boundaries,” he shared. “I hope they’re healthy boundaries, around, you know, grieving personally versus grieving as a community, grieving with the public, grieving with the world. You know, I needed that and I didn’t necessarily pick up on it initially.”

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The news broke in August 2014 that the actor and comedian died in his home in Tiburon, Calif. According to his rep, Robin had been battling severe depression.

Harry, who tragically lost his mother in 1997, shared that he also struggled with grieving when a million others were also grieving for his mother’s death.

“I think we have a lot of shared experience when you talk about that as, when you see so many people around the world grieving for someone they feel as though they knew them better than you did, you know, in a weird way because you’re unable to grieve yourself,” he shared. “It’s like, ‘How are you showing more, sort of, how are you grieving more for someone who was my parent and I’m unable to grieve myself?'”

Zak and Harry are now using their platforms to shed light on mental health. Harry may have met some famous faces over the course of his life, but he expressed his gratitude to meet the son of his hero.

“I wish your dad was around to see what a remarkable man that you’ve grown into,” Harry shared. “Like, the way that you speak, the way that you were at that crossroads in your life or the T-junction in your life when you could’ve gone left and carried on doing what you were doing…I think that is, it’s remarkable.”