TV host: Harry ’oozed alcohol from every pore’

Renowned US TV presenter Katie Couric has spilled on her meeting with the Duke of Sussex – and it’s clear she wasn’t impressed.

Prince Harry “oozed alcohol from every pore” and stank of cigarettes during his “wild-oats sowing phase”, a famous US TV host has claimed.

Katie Couric has detailed encounters with both the Duke of Sussex and his uncle, Prince Andrew, in her new memoir Going There.

And neither of the royals get good reviews from the former US Today presenter.

Couric details how she met Prince Harry at a polo match in Brazil in 2012 - just two months before his infamous trip to Las Vegas, where he was photographed naked while playing “strip billiards” in his hotel room.

She explained that he was in his “wild-oats sowing phase” and said he smelt of alcohol and cigarettes, which seemed to “ooze from every pore”, according to the Daily Mail.

Couric interviewed Harry in 2012.

The Prince has admitted turning to drugs to cope with his mum’s death.

And he said he would regularly drink “a week’s worth of alcohol in one day”.

The 37-year-old opened up about his struggles with his mental wellbeing and the trauma that haunts him in recent documentary The Me You Can’t See.

“I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling,” he said.

Harry was once regularly seen with a cigarette in hand. Picture: Ikon Pictures/Shutterstock

Guests ate lasagne out of shallow bowls and Epstein “held court” to Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Rose in front of the fireplace.

Couric wrote: “I couldn’t imagine what Epstein and Andrew were up to, apart from trying to cultivate friends in the media.

“Which, in retrospect, they must have figured they’d need.”

The Duke’s ties to Epstein have been under the microscope in recent years. Picture: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP

Couric has detailed her dinner with the pair. Picture: AP Photo/Peter Kramer

The Duke of York is set to face a bombshell sex assault lawsuit in the US after the High Court in the UK agreed to serve him papers.

He faces allegations he forced Virginia Roberts Giuffre to sleep with him when she was 17.

Ms Roberts was a former sex slave of late paedophile financier Epstein.

Legal experts have predicted she could be awarded around £14 million (A$26 million) if she wins.

He vehemently denies the allegations against him.

Sources claim he’s “worried” about the case – after initially feeling confident the allegation would be dropped.

He previously hoped to have the case thrown out on a technicality after his Hollywood lawyer argued the documents hadn’t been officially served.

However, with the knowledge the case will go ahead, sources reveal his bullish mood has changed, it’s claimed.

“He’s not been his usual blasé self, acting like everything is in hand,” the source alleged.

“The issue has suddenly become very pressing and there is a distinct tension in the air.

This story originally appeared in The Sun and was reproduced with permission.