On the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death in 2017, firefighter Xavier Gourmelon shared his experience on Good Morning Britain, recalling what she said to him that night.
At first, no one on the scene knew Diana was among the victims.
When she briefly regained consciousness in the back seat and spoke to him, she reportedly said: “Oh my god, what’s happened?”
He shared that the late Princess briefly became agitated before slipping back into unconsciousness.
“I tried to calm her down and tell her we’d look after her, and she fell into a coma again,” he recalled.
According to Xavier, her condition worsened quickly as she was being taken out of the car.
“At that moment, the doctor said she was in cardiac arrest. So, we gave her CPR and after 20 seconds, she regained consciousness, and we transferred her to the ambulance.”
Despite doctors’ efforts at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, the Princess passed away at 4:00am the next morning after suffering another cardiac arrest, from which she could not be revived.
While Princess Diana, Dodi Al-Fayed, and their driver Henri Paul lost their lives, Dodi’s bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, was severely injured but survived.
