Diana 'scared half to death' into Bashir interview - as home secretary warns BBC governance will be reviewed Alix Culbertson, news reporter P rincess Diana's biographer has said she was scared "half to death" into being interviewed by Martin Bashir due to his lies - but would have spoken her mind in any interview. Andrew Morton said there was a "mile-long queue outside Kensington Palace" to interview her and there was "no question at all that Diana was going to speak her mind". He said Bashir would never have got the 1995 interview, but he did as he "scared her half to death".