Michael Jackson was close friends with Princess Diana after the two stars met in the late eighties.

That’s what the son of the King of Pop, Prince Jackson, said on Friday (October 28) in an interview on Good Morning Britain.

“Every time my father talked about his relationship with her, it was filled with so much love, but also sadness, because he had lost a friend so close and dear to his heart,” said the 25-year-old.

Michael, who passed away in 2009, first met Diana backstage at London’s Wembley Stadium in 1988.

Prince was born in February 1997, just months before Diana died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997. Dailymail.

Prince said the star – whose biggest hits were ‘Thriller’ and ‘Bad’ – felt he had a lot in common with the popular princess.

“He just felt like, as he explained to me, he felt connected to her in a way that he didn’t really have those connections with other people,” Prince said.

“I think, based on what he was telling me, they fed off each other in the sense that this love was mutual, and he loved the way she loved and he loved the way she tried to be a great mother to her children and how much she just wanted to be a good person,” Prince said.

Diana was killed in a car accident in Paris on August 31, 1997. Whereas, Michael died 12 years later in 2009.

Michael, cited as one of the most influential musicians thanks to his era-defining albums and live performances, died aged 50 after an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.

This interview comes shortly after Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe said she thought she “should have done something” to help him fight his addictions.

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest after an overdose of the painkiller Propofol and Debbie – who was married to him between 1996 and 1999 – now looks back on his drug problems with regret that she didn’t do more to help the singer.

Debbie previously worked as an assistant to Jackson’s dermatologist Arnold Klein – who had provided the star with strong pain relief – and admitted she regretted her part in the tragedy.

Debbie and Jackson married in 1996 and she was the surrogate mother to his two older children, Prince and Paris. They had previously met 15 years ago while the singer was being treated for a skin condition. /Telegraph/