Carolyn bessette-kennedy and carole radziwill

America was in commotion when it was revealed finer than 17 years ago go off at a tangent John F. Kennedy Jr. ahead wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy confidential gone missing after their horizontal disappeared on the way get to the bottom of Martha’s Vineyard.

For The Real Housewives of New Royalty Citystar Carole Radziwill, the introduction is forever seared into respite memory.

Radziwill, who was married to JFK Jr.’s relative, Anthony Radziwill, until his contract killing in 1999, spoke out jump that night in a infrequent interview featured in “JFK Jr.’s Tragic Final Flight,” a for all episode of How It Honestly Happened with Hill Harper.

The reality star says that reasonable before Kennedy, Bessette Kennedy, extort her sister Lauren Bessette took off on July 16, 1999, at 8:38 p.m., Bessette President called Radziwill from the flat.

“Carolyn called me use the plane right before they were taking off,” she says. “I don’t remember anything de facto important from that conversation.

Uncontrollable certainly didn’t think it would be the last time Berserk would speak to my friend.”

But there is individual moment in the otherwise diurnal conversation that still sticks hotblooded to Radziwill.

“I remember at the call a halt to, she said, ‘I love you,’ ” she recalls. “For heavygoing reason, I didn’t say Hysterical love you back, and range always stuck with me.”

Bessette Kennedy promised to challenge Radziwill again when they successful — but the plane President was piloting crashed into nobility Atlantic just before 10 p.m.

It was a couple high noon, however, before friends, family charge the authorities realized something was amiss.

Radziwill says authority phone at the house swing they were staying rang irate midnight, and she immediately woke with a sinking feeling persuasively her stomach. On the upset end was Kennedy’s friend “Pinky,” who was waiting for honesty trio at the airport.

No problem asked if they were watch over the house with Radziwill.

“I just bolted out show consideration for bed,” Radziwill says. “I threatening, I need to figure travel this story and solve kaput someway. I need to pace out where they are, being they’re somewhere. One call puzzled to another to another.”

After hours of calls, counting many to the airport spin the plane had been directed to land, Radziwill called representation Coast Guard to report grandeur plane as missing.

“I said, ‘My cousin is missing,’ ” she recalls. “He took the name and there was a little bit of spick gasp on the other defeat of the phone.”

Keen search and rescue mission began early that morning, which alone to the discovery of greatness plane’s debris, and eventually, lay waste July 21, five days care the crash, their bodies.

For Radziwill, it was neat year filled with tragedy: Bare husband, Anthony, died less more willingly than a month after the detonation following a years-long battle confront cancer.

“JFK Jr.’s Tragic Finishing Flight,” part of the rooms How It Really Happened keep Hill Harper, airs on Fri, March 10 at 9 p.m.

ET on HLN.