Princess Diana and Michael Jackson would not go on to spend any more time together in person, but that didn't stop their friendship from deepening throughout the years. Their easy rapport face-to-face translated well to phone calls and they would stay in touch over the phone. Speaking with German media in 1999 (via Swiss Michael Jackson Community), Jackson shared that Diana would call him in the wee hours of the morning and talk about anything and everything. "We were very close," he said in the interview. "She was extremely close by phone ... I was still married to Lisa Marie [Presley]. Diana woke me up usually late at night ... mostly after three in the morning! And then she held me for hours on the telephone. She talked about children, the press."
And Jackson wasn't the only one to expound on the special friendship between the two A-listers. Jackson's bodyguard Matt Fiddes told Daily Star Online that he thought Jackson was "in love" with Diana based on those phone calls. "[Jackson] felt she was the only person in the world who could understand his life in terms of not being able to go anywhere, and the media stories that got out of hand," he told the publication in 2017. "The intrusion into the private life, having no privacy whatsoever, the children being hounded."
They wouldn't go on to meet again in person, but despite distance and time their friendship persisted until Diana's death in 1997 (per Biography). The friendship surely served them both well.
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