Trauma expert admits he regrets bombshell interview with Harry about royals
Gabor Mate regrets interviewing Prince Harry because of the "demeaning, dismissive" backlash he faced that made him "lose himself."
The Hungarian-Canadian doctor and "trauma expert" sat down to interview Harry back in March of this year while Harry was promoting his memoir, Spare. The interview was live-streamed and cost $33 (£27) to watch.
Harry spoke to Gabor and told him about what it was like growing up in the royal family. The theme of the interview was "loving with loss and the importance of personal healing."
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The interview took place in March and viewers had to pay to watch (Gabor Maté/Facebook)However, criticism came quickly for Gabor as previous comments he made resurfaced. The 79-year-old has said that Hamas is comparable to the Jewish fighters that took on the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, defended Palestinian missiles fired at Israeli civilians, and called the government of Israel terrorists.
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Besides his anti-zionist views, Gabor supports decriminalizing drugs and has used ayahuasca, a controversial hallucinogenic drug, to treat his patients for their mental illness. The doctor recently appeared on Steven Bartlett's The Diary of a CEO podcast and spoke about the backlash he got after his interview with the Duke of Sussex.
"There was an incredible social media reaction to it, which was, for the most part, so negative and so demeaning and so dismissive and so distorted," he told the podcast host, "I barely even know how to talk about it. I thought by this age I would know better, but you know what, it really got to me."
He saw a psychiatrist after the interview (The Diary Of A CEO)Gabor said he "lost himself" and eventually reached out to a psychiatrist for help. "I was in a dark place, I'm a human being like the rest. It's so difficult to ask for help but I did," he said.
Besides the backlash he got, the doctor admitted that he was wary about setting up the interview with Harry in the first place due to the cost. He admitted: "I believed this should be a free public service from two people who are having a very interesting conversation. But out of sheer opportunism I agreed to it. I didn't follow my gut feeling. I agreed to something that I didn't really like. Not that I didn't like the idea of talking with him, I didn't like the idea of putting myself behind a pay wall. I lost myself just in agreeing to do it."
After everything, Gabor now doesn't really care what people think about him. "I don't care if people agree with me or if they refute my ideas, but I want them to see me and what I'm actually saying, not some distorted version created by their own minds," he said, "'So what if someone says [something bad about me]. I don't live in the press. I don't live in someone else's mind. Here I am. Let them think and say what they want."
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