Diana said in that same BBC interview that she felt the need to "perform" through it all. (This sounds similar to the anecdote that Meghan shared in her interview with Oprah where she pushed herself to attend an event in 2019, but when the theater lights went down, she'd couldn't hold back tears.)
Diana also spoke about the years that she had bulimia, calling it a "secret disease." She continued, "You inflict it upon yourself because your self-esteem is at a low ebb, and you don't think you're worthy or valuable," adding that it gave her temporary comfort before feeling "disgusted." She referred to it as a destructive pattern.
Bulimia, she said, "was a symptom of what was going on in my marriage." She and Prince Charles wanted to "keep everything together" despite the fact that it was very publicly coming to an end, and this pattern, for her, was an escape mechanism. She stated that people, again, used her eating disorder as a way to paint her as unstable.
