Newscaster Katie Couric has released a new memoir, and one particularly juicy inclusion includes a time she met with Prince Harry back in 2012.
WATCH: Prince Harry storms off mid interview
Katie had been interviewing the then 27-year-old prince for an ABC special on Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee, the Daily Mail reported in 2012.
In her book, Going There, the television journalist claimed that during the interview, the Duke of Sussex reeked of booze and cigarettes that seemed “to ooze from every pore”.
Katie added that the encounter with Harry took place during his hard-partying, “wild-oats sowing phase.”
The claims don’t exactly come as a shock, with Harry revealing on The Me You Can’t See: A Path Forward special that he regularly took drugs, drank heavily and had severe panic attacks during his late 20s and early 30s.
“28 to probably 32 was a nightmare time in my life,” he revealed at the time.
During the interview with Katie back in 2012, Harry was in the middle of a royal tour visiting Brazil, Belize and the Bahamas, and told the newscaster that the trip was “lonely”.
“I’ve always said that it’d probably be easier as a, as a couple,” Harry said at the time. “I don’t have anyone. I wasn’t allowed to bring anybody with me.”
Harry also told Katie that he hoped to find “someone” that he could one day marry and start a family.
“I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young,” Harry said.
“And so I’m just, I’m waiting to find the right person, someone who’s willing to take on the job.”
The prince would eventually curb his hard-partying ways and get his wish four years later when he met Meghan Markle on a blind date, with the pair saying “I do” in an extravagant ceremony in 2018.
They have since welcomed two children, Archie, 2, and Lilibet Diana, 3 months.
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