Shockwaves were felt around the world when, 28 years ago, Princess Diana tragically died.

On August 31, 1997, the 36-year-old and her partner Dodi Fayed were trying to escape photographers in Paris when the car they were travelling in crashed.

It’s reported that chauffeur Henri Paul lost control of the car at the entrance to the Pont de l’Alma underpass and struck another vehicle, before swerving to the left of the two-lane tunnel and colliding with a column at an estimated 65 mph.

The crashed claimed Diana, Dodi, and Henri’s lives. The only passenger to survive was Dodi’s bodygard, Trevor Rees-Jones.

Emergency services rushed to the scene following the catastrophic crash, and among the first to arrive was firefighter Xavier Gourmelon.

Gourmelon said he didn’t immediately recognize Diana, but said that the ‘blonde woman’ in the backseat was conscious when he approached the vehicle.

The firefighter claims he was was holding her hand and reassuring her while they waited for her to be extracted from the wreckage when Diana said four words that would end up being her last.

“My God, what’s happened?” she asked moments before going into cardiac arrest.

Diana was later pronounced dead at Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris. Speaking to The Sun, Gourmelon recalled what happened on that tragic night.

“I massaged her heart and a few seconds later she started breathing again. It was a relief of course because, as a first responder, you want to save lives – and that’s what I thought I had done’, he told the outlet.

“To be honest, I thought she would live. As far as I knew when she was in the ambulance she was alive and I expected her to live. But I found out later she had died in hospital. It was very upsetting. I know now that there were serious internal injuries, but the whole episode is still very much in my mind,” he continued.

“The memory of that night will stay with me forever. I had no idea then that it was Princess Diana. It was only when she had been put into the ambulance that one of the paramedics told me it was her.”

People around the world grieved following the news of Diana’s death. Tens of thousands of people are said to have flocked to Kensington Palace to pay their respects, and her televised funeral was watched an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide.

The wild Netflix doc features the first interview with her since the incident, as well as police body-cam footage showing her being confronted by police.

The documentary focuses on a young girl who, in late 2020, began receiving bizarre text messages.

Lauryn Licari and her at-the-time-boyfriend Owen began receiving numerous text messages and, in 2021, these escalated to full on regular death threats.

Eventually this led to the FBI becoming involved and the trail lead back to Lauryn’s Mum, Kendra Licari.

After a brief discussing with Kendra, he explains that they have found information tracing the messages back to her, saying: “The messages coming were originating from you… your number even though it was being hidden was showing up on every message.”

She then responds stating that she didn’t start the messages but did indeed send her daughter some of the messages she received. Lauryn and Owen were at times receiving up to 12 messages a day.

Dave Barberi, the prosecutor who eventually led the case in which Kendra was found guilty of two counts of stalking a minor that earned her up to five years in jail, said in the documentary that it wasn’t a ‘clear confession’, though she didn’t deny it.

The bodycam footage then shows the Sheriff informing both Lauryn and her Dad, Kendra’s at-the-time wife, Shawn Licari.

Speaking in the Netflix doc, Shawn admitted that he never imagined that it could have been the person telling their daughter to kill herself.

Shawn now lives in Michigan and has full custody of Lauryn.

Kendra speaks in the documentary for the first time since she was released from jail last year, shown in tears after the footage is shown.

She said of the day in which it was revealed she was the one sending the messages: “It was a very high emotional day in our house, a day of confusion.”

She goes on to bizarrely state: “Every single one of us makes mistakes, not a single one of us has lived a perfect life and, realistically, a lot of have probably broke the law at one point or another and not got caught.

“I know to some I’m a headline; I’m a villain I’m a bad Mum, I’m a whatever. But that’s because they know one little piece of my story, they don’t know my whole story.”

Kendra states in the doc that she was assaulted when she was around her daughter’s age at the time of the messages, and that she was scared of her growing up and so wanted to keep her close.

Viewers were not sympathetic to Kendra despite this, however, with one tweet about the documentary saying: “Why is Kendra acting as if she made a silly mistake like forgetting to pick her daughter up from school, this woman is seriously unwell how she is not in jail is beyond me.”

Unknown Number: The High School Catfish is available to watch on Netflix now.