Princess Diana's Death_ How Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey and More Stars Reacted (Fla
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00:00 It's heartbreaking we lose this humanitarian.
00:04 I've said it before and I do think it was a matter of time for some kind of accident
00:09 like this happened whether it was a pedestrian, whether it was a celebrity,
00:12 whether it was a member of the paparazzi, because a dangerous situation is created.
00:17 The only difference between being famous and not is that more people know your name.
00:21 Every single person, Princess Di proved this.
00:23 She is the living, was the living Cinderella.
00:26 The living symbol of Cinderella she was.
00:29 Living in the castle with all the shoes, the glass slippers, the whole thing.
00:33 And she proved to us that even Cinderella has pain.
00:37 Even Cinderella has difficulties.
00:39 Good evening. The princess who spent her life in the relentless glare of the public eye
00:44 died in a speeding car in Paris.
00:46 The biggest tragedy. And you know I feel so bad.
00:49 I've been like the rest of the world. I've been watching TV and following this
00:54 and I feel so sad for the two kids.
00:56 It feels like they don't know where to go and anyway I feel like everybody else it's a shock.
01:02 You have called Prince Charles and the boys and said I'll be there for you 24 hours a day if you need me.
01:07 Well I just couldn't imagine what it would be like to be a child losing a mother.
01:14 You know that's a big deal. And I thought I'm good at tragedies and things.
01:19 Certainly you've been there in your life.
01:21 And I thought I could help maybe.
01:23 It was more for them than it was for me.
01:26 But I'm just one of those people that feels I need to at least try to help.
01:32 First I want to pay tribute to Diana myself.
01:36 She was an exceptional and gifted human being.
01:40 In good times and bad she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh
01:46 nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness.
01:50 The world is an ugly place a lot of the time but I think it's brought a lot of people together.
01:55 It's brought my country England together.
01:57 A great catharsis of mourning and pain.
02:02 I'm sure people are still in disbelief.
02:05 It's going to take a long time.
02:07 My mother said everything just stopped.
02:09 Just stopped. Nothing. No cars. No anything on the streets. Nothing.
02:15 Now there is confirmation that Diana, Princess of Wales has died.
02:20 She died at 4am after going into cardiac arrest.
02:24 I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe she was dead. I still can't really.
02:28 And part of it was that we were so unprepared because first we heard that Dodi Al-Fayed had died
02:34 but that she had injuries and then suddenly, suddenly she was dead.
02:39 And that her partner Dodi Al-Fayed has also been killed.
02:43 They were apparently being pursued by paparazzi on two motorcycles.
02:47 I think it affects people on so many different levels that we're both reporting it as news,
02:52 we're experiencing it sort of as a world culture
02:56 and then people have very personal reactions to it as well.
02:59 So I think it's operating in so many dimensions.
03:01 What was your first reaction when you heard about Princess Diana's death?
03:05 Oh God. Total disbelief. Horror.
03:11 And I know what it's like to be chased in a car by the paparazzi.
03:16 And it's one of the most frightening, claustrophobic making feelings in the world
03:24 because you have no place to go.
03:26 I mean, they offered a million dollars for Princess Diana's personal life.
03:31 Now there have been, you know, war criminals that have performed atrocities
03:36 and serial murderers that have never had the bounty
03:39 that this sweet woman that was only committed to doing good for humanity,
03:44 she was stalked and hunted like an animal.
03:48 I admired and respected her for her energy and commitment to others
03:53 and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
03:57 She asked me once, "What's it like for you with the press?"
04:00 And I said, "What's it like for you?" She said, "How do you deal with it?"
04:03 I said, "How do you deal with it?"
04:05 Because I mean, nothing compared to what she went through.
04:08 And I guess what makes me feel the saddest about her
04:11 is that this was the first relationship since her marriage
04:15 that she could talk about publicly.
04:17 And just as she was beginning to enjoy herself,
04:19 just as it was beginning to be a little bit of that fairy tale, she died.
04:24 I think that's what grieves people,
04:26 is that she found some chance of happiness in the last year or so.
04:29 It's awfully sad.
04:31 And no matter how successful or famous or rich people think that celebrities are,
04:37 it's painful, it's a breakdown of the human spirit
04:41 to feel constantly hunted and stalked,
04:43 to not feel like you have any privacy at all,
04:46 and to feel like they're always going for the jugular.
04:48 They're always trying to expose you at your worst.
04:51 And frankly, I don't think it's worth it.
04:53 This week at Balmoral, we have all been trying to help William and Harry
04:57 come to terms with the devastating loss that they and the rest of us have suffered.
05:03 Princess Diana loved America, and Americans loved her.
05:06 Look, first of all, she was beautiful.
05:09 Secondly, she was challenging and courageous and erotic, perhaps, and unpredictable.
05:17 And she could revolt, she could answer back the royal family,
05:21 and at the same time, she was so kind to people whom she could help.
05:28 We don't see that in royalty.
05:30 And that was the most extraordinary quality about her.
05:33 There are so many implications.
05:35 The royal family has a lot to take a look at.
05:37 What will happen to William and Harry?
05:39 What will happen to the many, many charities?
05:41 They say that there was no one who could raise the kind of money
05:44 like Princess Diana could for charities.
05:46 What's your fondest memory of her?
05:49 Probably the look she had on her face when I asked her to dance.
05:54 She blushed, and I liked that.
05:57 I thought it was very down-to-earth and very real.
06:01 And that's probably my fondest memory.
06:05 I mean, I enjoyed the dancing, too, but it was more of a human moment
06:10 that someone as elevated as she had become could actually be, you know,
06:18 blushed to have a dance with me.
06:22 My first meeting with her was at a charity event,
06:26 and I was introduced to her, and she was so--
06:31 what's the word?--forthcoming and human and warm,
06:35 and broke through all that protocol.
06:37 She was a very generous, spirited woman, and I met her again,
06:40 and she gave me a beautiful smile.
06:42 She's gorgeous. You're a beautiful woman.
06:44 It's a great loss. It's a strange--
06:46 I think she's had a tremendous influence on people throughout the world,
06:49 like Mother Teresa.
06:50 It's very odd that those two people, Mother Teresa and Diana,
06:53 both were there in one week. It's really strange.
06:56 It's almost something symbolic.
06:58 I mean, people are probably going to read things in a test to comfort themselves,
07:01 but it's a tragic accident, and it's a great loss to the world.
07:04 How will you remember that most?
07:07 As a very caring, loving person for children, people still know,
07:12 wanting to bring attention to charities and get people's help as much as possible.
07:17 It's very hard not to remember a word here, a glance there,
07:24 a sort of secret gesture.
07:28 She was very personal, and she was always doing something that was just for you.
07:33 It didn't matter how many people were gathered around.
07:35 She was always able to come up and say something that was just for you,
07:38 usually funny, often breathtakingly revealing.
07:43 She had no trouble at all talking about herself and her personal life.
07:47 It's as if a light went out, and we all know that it's just--
07:54 there's a little less light in the world.
07:57 I think that the suddenness of it and the fact that she is so young
08:03 will make her, for generations to come, a mythical figure.
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