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Harry’s NEW CRISIS
Just over three years after he formally stepped down as a senior royal and fled the UK, Prince Harry is having problems with his US visa. After the prince, 38, admitted taking cocaine, cannabis and magic mushrooms in his tell-all memoir, Spare, he is facing calls to have his US visa application made public.
America’s Heritage Foundation is behind the request, with one of its directors, Mike Howell, saying it is in the public interest, ‘In light of the potential revocation of Prince Harry’s visa for illicit substance use and further questions regarding the prince’s drug use and whether he was properly vetted.’
Harry – who admitted first taking cocaine on a shooting weekend when he was 17 – said in a recent interview that his drug use was a positive experience, explaining, ‘[It] brought me a sense of relaxation, release, comfort, a lightness.’
Psychiatrist Dr Max Pemberton has slammed Harry’s admissions as ‘irresponsible’ and accused the prince of ‘wading into the debate on mental health with reckless ignorance’. Each year, hundreds of Brits are prevented from relocating to the US due to drug issues, with an admission of drug use usually being grounds for inadmissibility.
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani said, ‘Prince Harry’s visa should have been denied or revoked because he admitted to using cocaine, mushrooms and other drugs.’
LINDA’S BATTLE CONTINUES
She’s already beaten the disease before but now Linda Nolan has received the devastating news that her cancer has spread to her brain.
However, the 64-year-old, who was first diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer in 2006, is determined not to give up.
A source close to the family shared, ‘Linda and the whole family are shocked and upset but Linda is a fighter and she is determined to fight once again. Fortunately the cancer that has spread to the brain has been caught early and her treatment has already started.’
Our thoughts are with you, Linda.
CHARLENE ‘WORK IS A STRUGGLE’
She may put on a cheery disposition during Loose Women but Charlene White says that she doesn’t always enjoy turning up to work. The mum-of-two admitted, ‘Work today will be a struggle, I can’t lie to ya.’ Charlene, 42, explained that her three-year-old had been keeping her up. ‘Florence has stolen my sleep every night this week,’ she said, before joking, ‘Those bags under my e
