By Ron Wynn
NASHVILLE, TN — After her blockbuster interview with him and his wife Megan Markle, Oprah Winfrey is teaming with Prince Harry on a new project. “The Me You Can’t See,” a mental health documentary series, premieres May 21 on Apple TV Plus.
Co-creators and executive producers Winfrey and Harry will guide discussions about mental health and emotional well-being while opening up about their own mental health journeys and struggles.
The series will spotlight a range of people from across the globe dealing with mental health issues. There will also be some high-profile guests. They include Lady Gaga, Glenn Close, San Antonio Spurs’ DeMar DeRozan, Phoenix Suns’ Langston Galloway (formerly of the Detroit Pistons), mental health advocate and speaker Zak Williams, Olympic Boxer Virginia “Ginny” Fuchs and celebrity chef Rashad Armstead. “Now more than ever, there is an immediate need to replace the shame surrounding mental health with wisdom, compassion and honesty,” Winfrey said this week in a press release. “Our series aims to spark that global conversation.”
“We are born into different lives, brought up in different environments, and as a result are exposed to different experiences. But our shared experience is that we are all human,” Harry, the Duke of Sussex, added “The majority of us carry some form of unresolved trauma, loss, or grief, which feels—and is—very personal. Yet the last year has shown us that we are all in this together, and my hope is that this series will show there is power in vulnerability, connection in empathy, and strength in honesty.”
Other executive producers for“The Me You Can’t See” are Harpo Productions’ Terry Wood and Catherine Cyr. RadicalMedia’s Jon Kamen, Dave Sirulnick are additional executive producers, with Alex Browne serving as showrunner. Others working on the series include director/executive producers Dawn Porter (Emmy Award and Spirit Award nominee), Asif Kapadia (Academy Award and four-time BAFTA Award-winner), and producers Jen Isaacson and Nell Constantinople.
The various producers have partnered with 14 accredited and respected experts and organizations from around the world to help shed light on different pathways to treatment.
