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Harry and Winfrey's familiarity with each other helped lead to the revealing interview the duke and Meghan gave to Winfrey in March, during which the couple opened up about their own mental health struggles and their decision to step down from their roles as senior, working royals.

Meghan -- who is pregnant with the couple's second child, a girl, and who also appears in \"The Me You Can't See\" -- opened up about suicidal thoughts she had during her time in the royal family, while Harry said he, too, \"went to a very dark place.\"

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In the documentary, Harry says it was Meghan who encouraged him to address his unresolved grief when they met four years ago.

“I quickly established that if this relationship was going to work that I was going to have to deal with my past because there was anger there and it wasn’t anger at her, it was just anger,” Harry tells Winfrey. “And she recognized it. She saw it.”

Winfrey said she believes Harry opening up about coping with his own grief will be helpful to people, especially those who have lost loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic.

\"I think lots of people have been through grief, particularly this year ... and have not been able to grieve properly,\" Winfrey said. \"So I think hearing someone like Harry talk about it or hearing other people share how their inability to really step into the moment and do the grieving in a way that could be helpful to them at the time allows other people to see themselves.\"

Harry said he also believes there needs to be new ways of talking about mental health and grief as the world begins to reopen amid the pandemic.

\"I think globally we've now all had a shared experience. We've experienced something similar, albeit in different aspects and different locations around the world,\" he said. \"We've all felt things that we probably never felt before, and that to me says that we should now be talking about things that we've never talked about before.\"

\"The Me You Can't See\" debuts May 21 on Apple+.

If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, or worried about a friend or loved one, help is available. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 [TALK] for free confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even if it feels like it, you are not alone.

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