Love Story: Carolyn & John's Grief Over Diana

0:00Here's more entertainment and celebrity news for March 20th. In the summer of 1997, the sudden death of Princess Diana in a Paris car crash rocked the world, hitting celebrities John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bassett especially hard. A new episode of the FX series Love Story, which dramatizes their lives, dives into how the couple processed the tragedy on August 31st, that year. The show captures Carolyn learning the news from her sister during a late-night call, then watching non-stop coverage on TV. She had actually seen Diana up close just weeks earlier at designer Gianni Versace's funeral in Milan on July 22nd, where both attended among 2,000 guests. Carolyn's fear paparazzi intensified after Diana's death as she worried the press would swarm them even more without their top target. Her assistant later shared that Carolyn felt horrified, seeing parallels in how the media hounded high-profile women like them. While Carolyn froze in shock, John reacted differently, heading out for a run, and later

1:04urging her to turn off the news. In real life, the two icons had connected before. John met Diana privately in New York in December 1995 to pitch a magazine cover and... She sent him a thoughtful letter months later, hoping the media would leave him and Carolyn alone. This episode blends those real moments into their story, highlighting shared struggles with fame that ended too soon for everyone involved.