The Duke of Cambridge has teamed up with pop superstar Lady Gaga to encourage people to open up about their feelings and bring an end to the "shame" of talking about mental health issues. His candid interview has already prompted new conversations about how we deal with mental health issues in childhood and adulthood.
Gaga - whose full name is Stefani Germanotta - spoke about her struggle with PTSD in an open letter for the first time in December previous year, and she believes addressing her internal fight helped her to overcome her battles, and she has encouraged other people facing the same problem she did to speak about it.
In turn, William emphasized how important it can be for someone to speak up and said it's time "to feel normal about mental health - it's the same as physical health".
On Tuesday, the royal spoke further about his own personal struggles and his advocacy for mental health awareness through his Heads Together Campaign alongside brother Prince Harry and wife Duchess Kate. "Such an unbelievably big moment in your life, that it never leaves you, you just learn to deal with it".
Harry says he eventually sought help from a mental health professional and now is able to take his work and private life seriously in a way he wasn't able to in the past.
"For me, waking up every day feeling sad and having to go on stage is very hard to describe", she said. "It's explaining to them what those emotions mean, why they feel like they do".
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The Heads Together campaign aims to "Help people feel much more comfortable with their everyday mental wellbeing and have the practical tools to support their friends and family", according to the organization website.
The 32-year-old royal was just 12 years old when he lost his mother in 1997 after she was tragically killed in a vehicle crash in Paris, France, at the age of 36, and has admitted he nearly suffered a "complete breakdown" as he grew up determined not to think about the loss.
Kensington Palace released a video of William chatting online to singer Lady Gaga about her struggles.
William added: "It's OK to have this conversation, it's really important to have this conversation and that you won't be judged". Now twenty years later Prince Harry has spoken openly and bravely of its affects on his mental health.
The interview, with CALMzine, published by the Campaign Against Living Miserably, is for a special edition before the London Marathon on Sunday.
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