Prince Harry’s drug boasts in full from ‘gobbling diamond mushrooms’ to wild Eton nights

The Duke of Sussex spoke in depth about his drug use in his explosive memoir Spare – and it’s caused issues ever since the book’s release

Prince Harry’s very candid admissions in his tell-all memoir have come back to haunt him. In his “raw” and “unflinching” book Spare, the Duke spoke in depth about his previous drug use – and it’s led to questions about his US visa and whether he received ‘special treatment’.

This week, documents relating to Harry’s visa were unsealed – and on the surface, it seemed that attempts from the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation to learn the secrets of his application have failed. Pages and pages of the documents were heavily redacted, and the prince’s immigration status was also not revealed – offering scant new details.

However, insiders have said the saga is far from over for Harry, with speculation President Trump could now intervene. As the battle rumbles on, we take a look back at everything Harry said in his book about his drug use.

Cannabis

One drug that Harry admits to taking in Spare is cannabis and in the book, he recalls his introduction to it while he was at Eton College. He said: “I don’t remember how we got the stuff. One of my mates, I expect. Or maybe several.

“Whenever we found ourselves in possession, we’d commandeer a tiny upstairs bathroom, wherein we’d implement a surprisingly thoughtful, orderly assembly line. Smoker straddled the loo beside the window, second boy leaned against the basin, third and fourth boys sat in the empty bath, legs dangling over, waiting their turns.

You’d take a hit or two, blow the smoke out of the window, then move on to the next station, in rotation, until the spliff was gone. Then we’d all head to one of our rooms and giggle ourselves sick over an episode or two of a new show. Family Guy. I felt an inexplicable bond with Stewie, prophet without honor.”

Later in the book, he also recalls rolling a joint while he and Meghan were staying at Tyler Perry’s house after they fled to the US. In the book, Harry recalls how he and Meghan loved Tyler’s house describing it as ‘Xanadu’.

But with security concerns on his mind, he also details how when everybody had gone to sleep, he would find himself walking around the house checking the doors and windows. And in the memoir, he writes: “Then I’d sit on the balcony or the edge of the garden and roll a joint.

“The house looked down onto a valley, across a hillside thick with frogs. I’d listen to their late-night song, smell the flower-scented air. The frogs, the smells, the trees, the big starry sky, it all brought me back to Botswana.” Cannabis has been legal for recreational use in California for those over the age of 21.

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Cocaine

In Spare, Harry also spoke about his experiences with cocaine and explained he took it: “At someone’s country house, during a shooting weekend, I’d been offered a line, and I’d done a few more since. It wasn’t much fun, and it didn’t make me particularly happy, as it seemed to make everyone around me, but it did make me feel different, and that was the main goal.

“Feel. Different. I was a deeply unhappy 17-year-old boy willing to try almost anything that would alter the status quo. That was what I told myself anyway.” Speaking about cocaine, at an event with Dr Gabor Maté, he added: “That didn’t do anything for me. It was more of a social thing.”

Psychedelics

Meanwhile, at the same event, Harry also spoke about using hallucinogens, saying: “It was the cleaning of the windscreen, the removal of life’s filters — these layers of filters. It removed it all for me and brought me a sense of relaxation, relief, comfort, a lightness that I managed to hold back for a period of time. I started doing it recreationally and then started to realise how good it was for me,” he said.

Harry then added: “I would say it is one of the fundamental parts of my life that changed me and helped me deal with the traumas and the pains of the past.”

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Magic mushrooms

Harry also claims he took magic mushroom chocolates while staying at Courteney Cox’s home. “While the [fridge] door was open we spotted a huge box of black diamond mushroom chocolates,” he wrote. “Someone behind me said they were for everybody. Help yourself, boys. My mate and I grabbed several, gobbled them, washed them down with tequila.”

It was only when he later went to the bathroom that the hallucinogens kicked in: “Beside the toilet was a round silver bin, the kind with a foot pedal to open the lid. I stared at the bin. It stared back. ‘What—staring?’

“Then it became…a head. I stepped on the pedal and the head opened its mouth. A huge open grin. I laughed, turned away, took a piss. Now the loo became a head too. The bowl was its gaping maw, the hinges of the seat were its piercing silver eyes.

“It said: ‘Aaah.’ I finished, flushed, closed its mouth. I turned back to the silver bin, stepped on the pedal, fed it an empty packet of cigarettes from my pocket.” Harry described thanking the bin and the bin replying: “You’re welcome, mate.”

Source: Mirror