Andrew Morton — who famously interviewed Princess Diana before her death — says he was “left breathless” by Elizabeth Debicki’s portrayal of the late royal.
“It left me breathless, and it took me back all those years,” Morton, who wrote the 1992 tell-all Diana: Her True Story and serves as a consultant on the Netflix series’ fifth season, told Good Morning America on Friday. “I mean, I don’t say this very often, but I was shaken.”
The fifth and heavily criticized season of the show depicts the disillusion of the marriage of Princess Diana (Debicki) and then-Prince Charles (Dominic West).
It was revealed after the book’s publication that Morton and Diana used Dr. James Colthurst as a middle-man to transport written questions to Diana and then she recorded answers to send back.
“What I didn’t realize at the time was her sense of isolation, her sense of despair inside the royal system,” recalled Morton.
After Diana’s death in 1997, Morton released an updated version of the book, revealing that the princess herself was his primary source of information.
The fifth and heavily criticized season of the show depicts the disillusion of the marriage of Princess Diana (Debicki) and then-Prince Charles (Dominic West). ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Colle
“What I didn’t realize at the time was her sense of isolation, her sense of despair inside the royal system,” recalled Morton. ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Colle
It was revealed after the book’s publication that Morton and Diana used Dr. James Colthurst as a middle-man to transport written questions to Diana and then she recorded answers to send back. Jüschke/ullstein bild via Getty ImagesMorton said that Netflix made sure that its portrayal of the now 69-year-old journalist was as accurate as possible.
“The scriptwriters had asked me all kinds of questions like, what was the color of the wallpaper in my daughter’s bedroom because that’s where I had an office for a time,” said Morton.
Morton did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.
