After 30 Years on the Run, the Confession of Trevor Rees-Jones — The Sole Bodyguard to Survive Diana’s Car Crash — Has Shocked the World: “They Used Money and Power to Silence Me…”
In a revelation that has reopened wounds and reignited decades-old questions, Trevor Rees-Jones — the only survivor of the car crash that killed Princess Diana in 1997 — has finally broken his silence after 30 years of haunting silence. What he revealed has left the world in shock, raising troubling questions about the official narrative surrounding that fateful night in Paris.
Now living a quiet, reclusive life far from the public eye, Rees-Jones, who served as the bodyguard to Dodi Al-Fayed and was in the front passenger seat during the crash, has reportedly confessed that much of what he knew was buried under “pressure, threats, and enormous amounts of money.”
“They used money and power to silence me,” he reportedly stated during a private testimony, parts of which have now leaked to international media. “For decades, I kept quiet — not because I didn’t remember, but because I wasn’t allowed to speak.”
Rees-Jones, who suffered severe facial injuries and memory loss in the crash, had long maintained that he couldn’t recall the details of the incident. But now, he claims that his memory began returning slowly over time — and what he remembered, he says, “didn’t match the story the world was told.”
Among his most stunning claims:
- He believes the crash was not simply an accident caused by paparazzi, but the result of a deliberate orchestration.
- He suggests that multiple agencies were involved, and that his own role as bodyguard was manipulated to prevent intervention.
- He admits he was approached repeatedly in the early 2000s with offers of large sums of money in exchange for “keeping the story clean.”
Perhaps most chillingly, he reportedly recalled moments in the tunnel before impact that “didn’t feel like panic — it felt like protocol.”
Palace officials have refused to comment. The British government has not acknowledged the testimony. And Mohamed Al-Fayed, Dodi’s father who spent years claiming Diana and his son were murdered, passed away without ever seeing the truth confirmed.
Diana’s sons, Princes William and Harry, have also remained silent so far. But royal watchers speculate that this new testimony may pressure the monarchy to revisit the circumstances of Diana’s death — especially in an age when truth is harder than ever to hide.
As Trevor Rees-Jones concluded:
“I was there. I lived. And now, after thirty years of silence, I owe the truth — not to the system that betrayed me, but to Diana… and to the world that still mourns her.”