Awkward TV gaffe as Channel Seven airs promo for Prince Harry’s emotional interview about his mother Princess Diana’s death during an episode of Home and Away with a bloody car crash

Channel Seven aired a promo for Prince Harry’s tell-all interview with 60 Minutes’ Anderson Cooper – in which he opens up about the death of his mother Princess Diana – during an episode of Home and Away that featured a fiery car crash.

Some viewers may have found the juxtaposition in poor taste given that Diana died in a car accident in Paris 25 years ago – a tragedy that still haunts her youngest son.

Home and Away returned for its 2023 season on Monday night after a cliffhanger finale in November last year. 

Channel Seven aired a promo for Prince Harry’s tell-all interview with 60 Minutes’ Anderson Cooper – in which he opens up about the death of his mother Princess Diana – during an episode of Home and Away that featured a fiery car crash (pictured) 

The final moments of the 2022 season showed Felicity Newman (Jacqui Purvis) and Eden Fowler (Stephanie Panozzo) driving to Felicity’s wedding to Tane Parata (Ethan Browne) without realising the car’s brakes had been cut by a member of the Death Adders bikie gang.

Felicity and Eden are then involved in a horrific car crash with Justin Morgan (James Stewart) and Leah Patterson-Baker (Ada Nicodemou), who were in another car.

Fast-forward to Monday’s episode, and things pick up where they left off with Felicity looking bloodied and injured as a rescue team attempts to get her out of the vehicle. Tane also shows up at the scene to be with his bride.

The rescue team is forced to back away after discovering a petrol leak that could start a fire.

Some viewers may have found the juxtaposition in poor taste given that Diana died in a car accident in Paris 25 years ago – a tragedy that still haunts her youngest son. (Pictured: a still from the 7News promo showing Diana with her sons Harry and William) 

At this moment, the episode cut to an ad break with Seven News anchor Angela Cox giving an update on Prince Harry’s interview with 60 Minutes.

Promoting the TV special, scheduled to air after Home and Away at 7:30pm, Cox revealed how Harry opened up to Cooper about his trauma and sense of disbelief that followed his mother’s death in a car accident in August 1997.

‘Good evening. Prince Harry has opened up about his grief over the death of his mother Princess Diana, and taken aim at his father’s new wife Camilla,’ she said.

‘The attacks have been described as “personal” and “stinging.”‘

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Channel Seven for comment. 

Home and Away returned for its 2023 season on Monday after November’s cliffhanger finale. Felicity Newman (Jacqui Purvis) is shown looking bloodied and injured after a car crash

As things were heating up – literally – the episode cut to an ad break with Seven News anchor Angela Cox giving an update on Prince Harry’s interview with 60 Minutes 

Harry was just 12 when Diana died. He admits in his upcoming book Spare that he struggled to come to grips with her sudden death.

The Duke of Sussex credited the use of psychedelic drugs with helping him deal with the ‘grief’ and ‘trauma’ he felt in the aftermath of the tragedy.

He called psychedelics like ayahuasca and magic mushrooms his ‘medicine’ after the huge ‘loss’. 

Harry was just 12 when Diana died. He admits in his upcoming book Spare that he struggled to come to grips with her sudden death 

Harry has shared more details about his mother’s death, explaining that he only cried once – when her coffin was put in the ground – and that he was plagued with guilt over feeling like he was not being emotional enough over her passing for years 

Harry has shared more details about his mother’s death, explaining that he only cried once – when her coffin was put in the ground – and that he was plagued with guilt over feeling like he was not being emotional enough over her passing for years.

But the former royal said using psychedelics when he got older ultimately ‘cleared away the idea’ that he needed be sad to prove he ‘missed’ his mother.

‘I would never recommend people to do this recreationally,’ he said during the one-hour interview with Cooper.

‘But doing it with the right people if you are suffering from a huge amount of loss, grief or trauma, then these things have a way of working as a medicine.

Princess Diana’s interview with the BBC’s Martin Bashir in 1995 marked the first time that she publicly addressed claims that Charles and Camilla had an affair during her marriage

‘For me, they cleared the windscreen, the windshield, the misery of loss. They cleared away this idea that I had in my head that … I needed to cry to prove to my mother that I missed her. When in fact, all she wanted was for me to be happy.’

Harry also revealed that his older brother Prince William was convinced their mother was alive, saying that both brothers believed she would one day get in touch with her sons and whisk them away.

According to Harry, he and William ‘talked about’ the idea their mother had not died in the 1997 car crash, but had instead decided to ‘disappear for a time’, with the Duke of Sussex explaining they believed it was ‘all part of a plan’.

‘For a long time, I just refused to accept that she was… she was gone,’ he said.

‘Um, part of, you know, she would never do this to us, but also part of, maybe this is all part of a plan.

‘[I believed she had disappeared] for a time, and then that she would call us and that we would go and join her, yeah.’

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