In an interview with Good Morning Britain on the 20th anniversary of her death, the firefighter shared that he was present and heard Princess Diana’s final words.
He recounted, “She looked at me and said, ‘Oh my God, what’s happened?’”
He added, “I tried to calm her down and tell her we’d look after her, and then she fell into a coma again.”
Gourmelon said that when they were responding to the crash, they didn’t initially know who was in the car, and he didn’t recognize that it was Princess Diana speaking to him.
He described her as ‘agitated’ at first before she lost consciousness again.
At that point, she was still trapped in the wreckage of the car, and when they removed her from the vehicle, she went into cardiac arrest.
He said, “At that moment, the doctor said she was in cardiac arrest. We performed CPR, and after 20 seconds, she regained consciousness. We then transferred her to the ambulance.”
However, she passed away after experiencing another cardiac arrest in the hospital, which could not be successfully resuscitated.
