BBC journalist Martin Bashir is battling the coronavirus.

“We are sorry to say that Martin is seriously unwell with COVID-19 related complications,” a BBC rep said in a statement. “Everyone at the BBC is wishing him a full recovery. We’d ask that his privacy, and that of his family, is respected at this time.”

The 57-year-old is famed for his explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana, in which she exposed royal acts of adultery. Nearly 23 million viewers watched the night the people’s princess bared her soul about her failed marriage to Prince Charles — and his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles. “There were three of us in this marriage,” she told Bashir.

However, 25 years later, Bashir was accused of scoring the scoop by stoking Diana’s paranoia that the secret service was bugging her private conversations and by using fake bank statements to get her brother, Earl Spencer, to help secure the interview, the Sunday Times of London reported.

Bashir also courted controversy with his lurid 2003 ITV/ABC documentary “Living with Michael Jackson.” He has worked as the religion editor for BBC news since 2016.

He returned to the UK outlet after a run as the host of ABC’s “Nightline,” followed by an anchor position at MSNBC. He infamously left that gig in 2016 after a receiving criticism for declaring vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin a “world-class idiot” and suggesting on-air that someone should defecate in her mouth.