The Doctor Who Tried To Save Princess Diana Reveals What Really Happened In Her Final Moments

In the early morning hours of Sunday, August 31, 1997, Dr. MonSef Dahman was part of the team fighting to keep Princess Diana alive. Although Dr. Dahman now treats patients in the “billionaire playground” of the French Riviera, he will never forget the day he tried – and failed – to revive Princess Diana after her fateful car crash in Paris. When Diana came to the hospital where Dahman worked, he was a young duty general surgeon in the biggest hospital in France and was working tirelessly to try to save Princess Diana’s life despite the odds against him.

“The thought that you have lost an important person, for whom you cared personally, marks you for life,” Dr. Dahman said.

Until now, Dahman has remained silent about his involvement in treating Princess Diana after her crash. He has decided to open up about his experience in the operating room as part of an exclusive interview for this investigative series and forthcoming seven-part Mail+ podcast.

Little did he know, but Dr. Dahman was the person rallying other medics to help save the life of the “young woman” who turned out to be the most famous person in the world.

One reason that Dr. Dahman is speaking up after all this time – and without any payment to do so – is because he wants to dispel the cruel rumors that Diana was allowed to die in the French hospital. Some people believe that Diana was allowed to die as part of some conspiracy within the British Establishment – Dr. Dahman wants the world to know that is simply not the case.

“I was resting in the duty room when I got a call from Bruno Riou, the senior duty anesthetist, telling me to go to the emergency room,” Dahman said. “I wasn’t told it was Lady Diana, but [only] that there’d been a serious accident involving a young woman.”

When he got to Princess Diana’s room, his assistant was “in a corner because she was a little overwhelmed by the gravity of the moment.” Riou was also present. “That too was a sign of the special importance. And he was personally taking care of a lady who was lying on a stretcher, with a lot going on around her.”

At the time, Dahman was thirty-three. He was told that the woman on the stretcher was indeed Princess Diana.

“It only took that moment for all this unusual activity to become clear to me,” he said. “For any doctor, any surgeon, it is of very great importance to be faced with such a young woman who is in this condition. But of course, even more so if she is a princess.”

The doctors tried everything to revive Diana but were unsuccessful.

“We tried electric shocks several times and, as I had done in the emergency room, cardiac massage,” said Dahman. “Professor Riou had administered adrenaline. But we could not get her heart beating again.”

The medical team refused to give up.

“We fought hard, we tried a lot, really an awful lot. Frankly, when you are working in those conditions, you don’t notice the passage of time,” he said. “The only thing that is important is that we do everything possible for this young woman.”

What do you think about this doctor’s account of treating Princess Diana on her deathbed?