PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Kate’s truth bomb about how therapy doesn’t work for everyone

After three weeks of Harry napalming the royal family with his “truth bombs,” the Princess of Wales – unwittingly or not – dropped a little bombshell of her own this week.

During a visit with Prince William to mental health charity Open Door in Liverpool – her first public engagement since Spare was published – she said simply: “Talk therapies don’t work for some people, they’re not for everyone.”

The comment raised eyebrows at Harry’s apparent therapy obsession. Not least because of his revelation that after William apparently broke his brother’s necklace and knocked him to the ground in an argument over Meghan, Harry immediately called his therapist to talk it over.

Whether Kate unknowingly dropped her bombshell or not, she’s absolutely right. While talk therapies certainly work for some, they don’t always solve the problem. And I should know. I’ve tried several of these at low points in my life; some worked, most didn’t.

After three weeks of Harry napalming the royal family with his “truth bombs,” the Princess of Wales – unwittingly or not – dropped a little bombshell of her own this week

Talking didn’t heal my marriage or bring my dead brother back.

And from what I’ve seen of Harry in interviews and in his book, I’d say they didn’t work for the tormented, vengeful prince. The malice, the anger, the bitterness he is filled with is not what you find in a person who is content with himself. If he’s the poster child for “talk therapy,” then God help those of us who seek help in this way.

What I see is a deeply vengeful man, a narcissist obsessed with his own feelings of exclusion, reveling in an unrealistically high sense of his own importance and wallowing in perpetual victimhood. In his suspicious eyes you can see that there has been no healing.

Why else would the prince we once loved speak so much evil against so many of those who should be close to him? His father, his brother, Kate, Camilla – all villains. He is convinced that he and Megs are the innocent victims.

Any professional will tell you that having a therapist on speed dial is not how therapy is supposed to work. Healing will only come to Harry when he starts talking seriously to his family. That would be really worthwhile talk therapy.

shock from the past

Deepest sympathy for Julia Roberts, who discovered through a DNA search that she is not biologically “Roberts” after all, as her great-great-grandmother had an affair with a married man after the death of her husband.

Big sympathy for Julia Roberts, who discovered through a DNA search that she is not biologically “Roberts” after all

I was similarly shocked when a search revealed that we Platells were not French aristocrats Platelles – as we had believed – but impoverished German potato diggers who fled penniless to Britain.

Margot’s “fast” fashion

Self-proclaimed eco-warrior Margot Robbie is an active member of Greenpeace and preaches about the little things we can all do to create a sustainable future, even in Hollywood, like eliminating single-use plastic water bottles on film sets.

Hooray for Margot.

Just wondering how she explains her pink Chanel disposable dress at the Golden Globes that took over 750 hours to make?

Self-proclaimed eco-warrior Margot Robbie is an active member of Greenpeace and preaches about the small things we can all do to create a sustainable future

She wolf bites back

Pop star Shakira’s 11-year-old partner and father of their two children has reportedly left her for 22-year-old public relations student Clara Chia.

Pop star Shakira’s 11-year-old partner and father of their two children has reportedly left her for 22-year-old public relations student Clara Chia

Now the 45-year-old She Wolf singer has been branded a misogynist for beating her young rival in her latest single. “I’m worth two twenties,” she sings. “You traded a Ferrari for a Twingo. You traded in a Rolex for a Casio.”

Every woman retains the right to take revenge on someone who moves into her marriage or long-term relationship. That’s not misogynistic, that’s called showing balls.

Westminster Wars

The Left laments that Boris earns £1million on top of his MPs salary, plus the £1million from a Tory donor to run his office while he rents a £20million mansion. What’s certainly stranger is that he still hasn’t bought a permanent home. Or does he plan to move back into No. 10 after the disastrous Rishi Sunak council election in May?

The Left laments that Boris earns £1million on top of his MPs salary, plus the £1million from a Tory donor to run his office while he rents a £20million mansion

Having only been a PM for 44 days, Liz Truss arrives at Scott’s restaurant in Mayfair, accompanied by her personal police officers who will have her for life. The only protection the woman needs is her delusions of grandeur.

After eight months of crippling strikes and more to come, it’s no wonder a majority of Britons are backing new legislation to force unions to provide a minimum level of emergency services during industrial action, even if Keir Starmer claims it is undemocratic. What is undemocratic, Keir, is a Labor Party trying to overthrow an elected government.

No keeping up with Kim

When Kayne West marries architect Bianca Censori two months after his divorce from Kim Kardashian, observant observers note that before she went blonde, she was the spitting image of his curvaceous reality TV star ex-wife.

Gorgeous butt, plaid; narrow waist, plaid; black hair slicked back, checked. The only difference is that Kim is worth $1.8 billion – checkmate.

How Tom Hanks upset my Ted

US actor Tom Hanks and cat Smeagol arrive for a special screening of Columbia Pictures’ A Man Called Otto

My Moggie Ted was distraught to see Tom Hanks take his co-star cat Smeagol to a red carpet screening of his new film A Man Called Otto. Ted was disturbed by all the strangers crowding around him, the blinking lights, and the way they’d dressed Kitty in a black tie and a stiff white collar. And why name a noble cat after the deformed Hobbit creature in The Lord of the Rings? Call the RSPCA!

A study by Ohio University concludes that simple and random acts of kindness can benefit others with depression—even something as simple as baking cookies for a partner. Too late for Prince Harry as he has no more friends.

Love Island fans are already in love with farmer Will Young, who says what he will miss most are his two pet pigs, who come to his house every morning for a cuddle. Fear not, Will, there will be many adorable cuddly creatures on the island, all equally desperate to snuggle up to you.

For the fading band of parishioners at my church who were recently asked to dig deep into our pockets to fix the rotting wooden floor, the news was that the Archbishop of Canterbury has found £100m to defend the historic connections of the C of E apologizing to the slave trade, a slap – and why I canceled my monthly direct debit.

Perhaps the BBC’s insanity has method in giving ISIS bride Shamima Begum her own ten-part podcast. As much as we loathe it, Begum will return to the UK and become a celebrity in time. As she was happy to marry an ISIS terrorist she didn’t know, she may be featured on Married At First Sight UK. Or given her supposed gift of sewing bombers into suicide vests, a judge at The Great British Sewing Bee.

After a reported loss of £66million In her fashion and beauty empire, Victoria Beckham invites us to “explore the VB sale with up to 60 percent off essential styles”. With a black T-shirt being ‘cut’ from £990 to £594, don’t expect a very long line from bargain hunters outside her Mayfair store.

On the heels of her blink-and-you-miss-it-movie Marry Me, which went straight to streaming, J.Lo is promoting her film Shotgun Wedding on Prime Video. It is the eighth film in which she has gotten married. Perhaps with already four husbands in real life, she’s just addicted to saying, “I do, I do, I do,” whether to a garbage script or a dud (Ben Affleck excluded, of course).

The University of Southern California the world banned “field” and claimed the term had racist connotations since slaves worked in fields. Excursions are therefore called “internships”, which means “a practical part of a course of study”. Should I feel guilty? One of my absolute favorite films is Field Of Dreams.