Katie Couric says Prince Harry had cigarettes and alcohol oozing from 'every pore' before he met Meghan Markle

• Katie Couric said that Prince Harry stunk of cigarettes and alcohol when she met him in 2012, the Daily Mail reported.
• In her new memoir, the veteran news anchor said that the royal was in his "wild-oats sowing phase."
• Prince Harry has previously said that he leaned on drugs and alcohol to cope with his mental health struggles.

In her new memoir, veteran journalist Katie Couric revealed that Prince Harry stunk of cigarettes and alcohol when she first met him, according to a manuscript of "Going There" obtained by the Daily Mail.

Couric first met the royal in 2012 at a polo match in Brazil, the Daily Mail reported. She was there on assignment to interview him for an ABC special about Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, per E! News.

When she met Prince Harry, the journalist said that he was in his "wild-oats sowing phase." It took place just two months before he was infamously photographed naked during a trip to Las Vegas, according to E! News.

In Couric's new memoir, the Daily Mail said, the news anchor recalled how the prince reeked of cigarettes and that alcohol seemed to "ooze from every pore" of his body.

Prince Harry has previously referred to the years 2012 to 2016 as a "nightmare time" in his life, according to USA Today.

He became tabloid fodder worldwide, and newspapers chronicled every detail of the so-called party prince's wild days.

The royal said that, during those years, he leaned on drugs and alcohol to cope with his mental health struggles, USA Today reported.

It was his wife, Meghan Markle, who he met in 2016, who eventually pushed him to start therapy, the media outlet said.