TRACY GRIMSHAW SPEAKS TO JAMES HEWITT
ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRINCESS DIANA’S DEATH

Tomorrow (Friday 31 August) at 6.30pm on Channel Nine

The man once called the “vilest man in Britain" and pilloried as a cad for selling intimate details of his relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales is still one of the most hated figures in the world.

On the 10th anniversary of Diana’s death, A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw travels to Hewitt’s home in Marbella, Spain where the former Army Major gets the opportunity to set the record straight.

In a revealing and at times explosive interview, Hewitt bares his soul about his love for Diana – a complex woman who he says manipulated him and sought protection from him at the same time.

“She wasn’t a saint and she did have her faults, and I think that is part of her attraction and beauty,” he says.

In the past, every time Hewitt has been asked about Prince Harry’s paternity he storms out of the interview. But this time, he refuses to deny it, fuelling fresh speculation he might be his father.

And for the first time, Hewitt reveals details of the last conversation he had with Diana, where she confided she was tired of the intense media attention, and his reaction to her death which he learned about while holidaying in Marbella – where he now lives.

"Before she was killed...when I last spoke to her, she said I am going to shock the world and go off with some big fat black man,“ he says. “But that was the way that she liked to shock people, but she didn't shock me."

Hewitt speaks about his decision to sell her love letters; his feelings about Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles and their “hypocrisy” surrounding Diana’s memorial service.

The interview is part of an entire program devoted to Diana and will be broadcast live from outside Buckingham Palace. Other interviews featured include: Rosa Monckton, Diana’s best friend who speaks about conspiracy theories, the men in her life and rumours Diana was pregnant with Dodi Al Fayed’s child when she died; Patrick Jephson, Diana’s former Chief of Staff; and former bodyguard Ken Wharfe.