Prince Harry is taking legal action to stop hate towards him and Meghan

THE Duke of Sussex has told a court he is suing the publisher of the Daily Mirror to stop “absolute intrusion and hate” towards him and his wife.

Prince Harry was giving evidence against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) over illegal newsgathering claims, including phone hacking.

He was choked-up as he finished giving evidence for a second day, and said it had been “a lot”.

MGN denies it used illegal methods to gather stories about the prince.

At London’s High Court, the prince explained he started discussions about possible legal action after a chance-meeting in France in 2018 with David Sherborne, now his barrister.

The prince said before then he had no concerns over any particular newspaper stories due to unlawful activity because it “was all contained in the Palace”.

When asked about his discussions with lawyers after that chance meeting with Mr Sherborne, Prince Harry said he had wanted to put a stop to the “absolute intrusion and hate that was coming towards” him and the Duchess of Sussex.

He said he also wanted to “see if there was any way to find a different course of action, rather than relying on the Institution’s way”.

But in cross-examination, Andrew Green KC, the lawyer representing the publisher of the Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, suggested Harry had not found a single story that came from phone hacking.

Harry replied “there is hard evidence to suggest an incredible amount of suspiciousness” over how stories were sourced and he believed burner phones were used “extensively”, referring to phones that can be disposed of so no records are kept.

Prince Harry alleges about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 - from his childhood into early adulthood - contained information gathered using unlawful methods, with a sample of 33 stories written about him being considered by the civil court.

Many of the stories the prince claimed were obtained illegally concerned his relationship with his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy.

In a 2006 Sunday People article Ms Davy was said to have been “screaming for half an hour” at him on the phone and “blew her top” over his visit to a Spearmint Rhino lap dancing club in Berkshire.

Asked where he thought the information on her screaming had come from, the prince said: “At this point, knowing that my girlfriend’s number was bizarrely in the hands of Mirror journalists, that they probably looked through her call data and saw missed calls, late calls… and managed to put together a story based on that.”

“It was very suspicious that they had her number,” he added, and he did not believe she would have given the Mirror Group or any journalists her phone number.

The prince told the court he once found a tracking device on Ms Davy’s car at a time when the press were reporting on what was described as a “make-or-break” holiday for the couple.

He also highlighted another article in The People in 2007 which reported a “Palace source” saying the couple had been having “monumental” rows and their relationship was “in crisis after a string of bitter bust-ups”. Again he said it was “incredibly suspicious” as he had never discussed his relationship with the Palace.

Mr Green responded by saying we are in the “land of total speculation about where this information might have come from”.

The couple broke up in 2010 after a six-year on-off relationship. She attended the prince’s wedding to Meghan in Windsor in 2018.

The prince was also asked about The People publishing photographs of the prince, a friend Mark Dyer and the late TV presenter Caroline Flack meeting up.

At the time he suspected one of his friends had leaked the details after they were confronted by photographers. In turn this led him and his brother William to stop talking to Mr Dyer for some time afterwards.

However he said: “I now believe the information came from our voicemails… Even those I trusted the most, I ended up doubting.”

Asked how he would react if the court concluded that he had never been hacked by any MGN journalist, Harry said that he had been hacked on an “industrial scale” and he would “feel some injustice” if he did not win the trial.

After Prince Harry’s evidence concluded, he stayed to see the Daily Mirror’s former royal correspondent Jane Kerr give her evidence.

She had been a royal reporter for the newspaper and later royal correspondent for a decade up to 2007 and wrote a number of the articles under scrutiny in the case.

In her written witness statement, she denied voicemail hacking or using private investigators to carry out unlawful information gathering.

Asked about her use of private investigators, Ms Kerr told the court she had “no reason to believe” details for stories had been obtained unlawfully.

“These were people who were well known to the news desk, I did not think there was anything wrong with using them,” she said.

Three other people are also bringing claims against MGN in this case - Coronation Street actors Michael Turner, known professionally as Michael Le Vell, and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse.

The claimants allege unlawful methods were used to obtain information for stories and say senior executives must have known about it and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.

The publisher has either denied or not admitted each of the claims. MGN also argues that some of the claimants have brought their legal action too late. (BBC)

Shannen Doherty reveals stage 4 cancer has spread to her brain

Shannen Doherty, star of “90210” and “Charmed,” has shared a health update regarding her yearslong battle with breast cancer — just weeks after announcing her divorce from her husband of 11 years.

The 52-year-old actress revealed on Instagram Tuesday that her stage 4 cancer has spread to her brain.

“On January 5th, my CT scan showed [metastasis] in my brain,” she captioned a video of her crying while placed under a radiation machine. “January 12, the first round of radiation took place.”

“My fear is obvious,” Doherty continued. “I am extremely claustrophobic and there was a lot going on in my life [at the time the video was taken]. I am fortunate as I have great doctors ... But that fear…. The turmoil….. The timing of it all…. This is what cancer can look like.”

The latest post followed a video from Monday in which Doherty shared the process of getting fitted for a mask that’s worn during radiation to the brain.

The actress was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 and went into remission two years later. However, Doherty disclosed in February 2020 that her breast cancer had returned.

“I’m stage 4,” Doherty revealed on “Good Morning America” at the time. “So my cancer came back, and that’s why I’m here.”

Sia has revealed that she has autism.

The singer and songwriter shared the information in an episode of the “Rob Has a Podcast,” which featured Carolyn Wiger, a former contestant on the reality competition “Survivor.”

“I’m on the spectrum, and I’m in recovery and whatever,” Sia said. “There’s a lot of things.”

During the podcast, Sia hailed Wiger, a drug counsellor, and announced that she would be giving the former contestant $100,000 to help her and her son.

Wiger expressed her gratitude and commended Sia for being so open.

“Being in recovery and also knowing about which kind of neurologicality you might have, or might not have, well, I think one of the greatest things is that nobody can ever know you and love you when you’re filled with secrets and … living in shame,” Sia responded.

She had previously disclosed that she had sought treatment for substance abuse.

“When we finally sit in a room full of strangers and tell them our deepest darkest most shameful secrets and everybody laughs along with us, and we don’t feel like pieces of trash for the first time, we feel seen for the first time in our lives for who we actually are and then we can start going out into the world as operators just operating as humans,” the singer continued.

Sia, 47, seemed to imply that she relatively recently became aware that she is on the spectrum

“For 45 years, I was like … ‘I’ve got to go put my human suit on,’” she said. “And only in the last two years have I become fully, fully myself.”

Autism spectrum disorder may affect how people interact with others, behave, communicate and learn, according to the National Institutes of Health.

In 2021, Sia faced backlash for casting her longtime collaborator, dancer and actress Maddie Ziegler, who is neurotypical, as a character with autism in the movie, “Music.”

“I realised it wasn’t ableism, I mean it is ableism I guess as well, but it’s actually nepotism because I can’t do a project without her,” Sia said at the time. “I don’t want to. I wouldn’t make art if it didn’t include her.”

CNN has reached out to representatives for Sia for additional comment. (CNN)

WAYNE Brady is ready to bring some Broadway magic to “The Wiz.”

The actor-singer will star in the title role when the Tony-winning musical returns to New York City next spring, producers announced Wednesday.

The limited Broadway engagement will follow a national tour beginning this September in Baltimore with Alan Mingo Jr. in the role of The Wiz. Mingo will also play the character during stops in Chicago, San Diego, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., among others.

Brady, meanwhile, will play The Wiz in San Francisco from Jan. 16 to Feb. 11, and in Los Angeles from Feb. 13 to March 3, before the revival arrives on Broadway.

“The Wiz” opened in Baltimore in October 1974 with Stephanie Mills as Dorothy. It debuted on Broadway the following January. Led by an all-Black cast, the musical was a revelation for how it featured modern culture through its adaptation of the decades-old “Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” The original Broadway show received seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and spawned a 1978 film starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. “The Wiz” last appeared on Broadway briefly in 1984.

Directed by Schele Williams, the upcoming revival is billed as an “all-new 21st-century” production that mixes ballet, jazz and modern pop.

“I wouldn’t be on Broadway if it wasn’t for ‘The Wiz’… the music, the costumes, the choreography and Stephanie Mills!” Williams said in December when the revival was announced. “Seeing that show changed my life. It is, in every way, a celebration of Black excellence. I am honored to helm this production and I can’t think of a better time to tell this story.”

Tom Holland learned about the value of prioritising his mental health after producing and starring in his upcoming AppleTV+ miniseries “The Crowded Room.”

That’s part of what has led to the “Spider-Man” star taking a break from acting to simply be a “regular bloke from Kingston and just relax,” he told Extra in an interview published on Tuesday.

With heavy subject matter related to mental health, making “The Crowded Room” was “a tough time,” Holland said, because he was “exploring certain emotions that I have definitely never experienced before.”

Inspired by Daniel Keyes’ 1981 novel “The Minds of Billy

Milligan,” the miniseries follows a young man’s arrest for a shocking crime and the “unlikely investigator” who solves the mystery behind it, according to a synopsis.

And while Holland said he “really enjoyed” making the series, he added that ultimately “the show did break me.”

“There did come a time where I was like, I need to have a break. I disappeared, I went to Mexico for a week and had some time on a beach and laid low, and I’m now taking a year off and that is a result of how difficult this show was,” he said.

Thanks to his friends, family, castmates and an on-set psychologist, Holland said that he felt supported throughout the entire process. He even said the experience changed him for the better, and that he feels like he’s “grown up” a lot.

Holland also told EW in May that his experience on set led to his decision to take a break from drinking.

On his break from acting, Holland told Extra this week that he’s been spending his time traveling, seeing family and friends and playing golf. He’s even invested time into “buying plants and doing my best to keep them alive.”

“The Crowded Room” will be available to stream on AppleTV+ on June 9. (CNN)

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