Princess Diana once made a heartbreaking confession to Paula Yates during a chance encounter, according to a friend of the TV star.
The late Princess of Wales told Paula she was happy when the former Big Breakfast presenter appeared on tabloid front pages because it meant she "got the day off." The revelation came in the first instalment of a two-part Channel 4 documentary called Paula - in which friends and collaborators reflected on the TV stars rise to fame before her tragic death from a heroin overdose in 2000.
Paula’s love life was in particular tabloid fodder - as she was first married to The Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof before embarking on a love affair with INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, who took his own life in Sydney in 1997.
In the documentary, Paula's friend Belinda Brewin recalled an occasion when she and the TV presenter bumped into the late Princess Diana while shopping in West London.
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