I found this article from extra tv archived dated November 23, 1998
I know its old but I thought I'd post it anyways.
Rees Jones Ex-Wife Speaks
He was the only survivor of the crash that killed Princess Diana, and she's the woman who knows him better than anyone. Sue Rees Jones was married to Trevor at the time of the accident, and now she's speaking for the first time on TV about what he remembers, and how he will never be the same.
Photos from Trevor's wedding became a surgeon's blueprint after his face was twisted and mangled the most famous crash of our lifetime. The crash that killed a Princess and two others, and left Trevor clinging to life.
Susan Rees Jones says she felt like a princess the day she married Trevor. It was August 12, 1995, in the little country town of Oswestry, England and everything seemed perfect. If the future looked bright, it was a cruel trick...for their day of laughter and love was to be followed by a night of absolute terror.
It was the crash heard round the world. When the horrible news spread of Princess Diana's fatal accident, Sue went into a panic. Her gut told her Trevor was in the car, but she had no idea if he was alive: "Eventually, I was asked by Trevor's work to phone his mother, who I woke up at three o'clock in the morning to tell her I didn't know whether her son was alive or dead or not ...(begins crying)"
Even now, the memory is still too frightening. British news twice reported Trevor had died. Miraculously, he had not. Sue and the rest of Trevor's family rushed to Paris, where they were met at the hospital by Trevor's doctor. "He told us every bone on Trevor's face was broken and we were really expecting the worst."
Was it hard for Trevor to look at him like that? "No, because it was Trev. But his head has swollen quite incredibly and his eye was an awful mess. There were a lot of stitches and tubes going in and out." After surgery, one side of Trevor's face is still permanently scarred.
He spent 2 weeks in a coma, and his jaws were wired shut. When Trevor finally came to, the news of Diana and Dodi's death was simply more than he could handle. "He'd actually broken the wires apart through the emotion of being told they were killed."
Sue says, to this day, Trevor carries a heavy burden of guilt. But did he feel that there was anything he could have done that could have prevented the crash from happening? "When he came back we went out to dinner on one particular Sunday and he did tell me that if they'd actually done as he planned, then the accident wouldn't have happened."
Diana, Dodi, Trevor and driver Henri Paul left the Ritz that night in the black Mercedes from a back entrance. Trevor had presented another plan, and though Sue doesn't know the details, she knows someone rejected it. "I know that Dodi could overrule any decision Trevor made."
But did Trevor ever talk about Henri Paul being a reckless driver? "No... he has told me he was not aware that Henri Paul was not over the limit."
In October of 1997, Trevor finally left the hospital. His employer (Dodi's father) Mohammed Al-Fayed paid for Trevor to undergo hypnosis therapy, in the hopes the bodyguard could remember exactly what happened that night. Sue told us that Trevor: "...certainly feels it was an accident, he doesn't believe it was a conspiracy."
But while Trevor's body was on the mend, Sue's life was collapsing under intense scrutiny. Two months before the crash, against Trevor's wishes, she left him and asked for a divorce. Soon after, she had a new boyfriend, Peter McCarthy. Sue explained why she left Trevor to EXTRA: "Trevor loved me, and I loved him as a friend, not as a wife."
Sue was branded a villain in the British tabloids. Headlines screamed about Sue's "new lover", "the affair" and the "marriage rift." She even became an outcast in her own town, her gift shop received a bomb threat, and her own family ignored her.
"My father hasn't spoken to me since December." Trevor, on the other hand, came home a local hero. He still lives with pain in his arm and his face, but he is working at a local sports store, and spends his free time with good friends.
Sue moved on, and she recently sold her shop and left town. Does she blame anybody for all that's befallen her? "Most definitely not. I don't blame Trevor, Diana, Dodi, or the situation that happened last summer. I made my decisions and I've got to deal with them."
Sue and Trevor still see each other every now and then, but it's not the forever they once talked about...and Sue says its not the same Trevor either. Last month Trevor sued Mohamed Al Fayed for almost fifty thousand dollars in legal bills that Trevor claims Al Fayed promised to pay. As for Sue, she's now living with her new boyfriend Peter, and they are hoping to start a new life together.
