Meghan Markle’s friend talks about childhood trauma

Hollywood actor Tyler Perry, who had given his home and security to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle when they parted ways with the royal family, recently spoke about what he called the effects of trauma in his life.

The filmmaker had helped the royal couple when he barely knew them.

After accepting the Paley Honors Award the filmmaker delivered a speech that touched on his journey from “childhood trauma”.

Local media reported that Perry was honored during the Paley Honors Fall Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

Perry revealed “I did something for the first time in my life: I went into this intensive therapy in Arizona. And being in that moment in Arizona, I was able to really start to deal with something: the effects of trauma in my life.”

According to PEOPLE the actor said that he was once “suicidal” and that his “earliest memory” was as a toddler, “being very young [and visiting] jail, with my mother and my sisters behind bars.”

“I didn’t even know what this memory was until my aunt told me about my mother trying to leave my father. And we were driving to California from Louisiana in her car, and it was in his name,” Perry said. “So he reported the car stolen, and we all were arrested and sat in the jail, waiting for him to come.”