Choose the common dominating probability measure and let , be the Radon-Nikodym derivatives. The assumed second moments imply first-moment integrability by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Since is a separable Banach space, the measurable is a strongly measurable function, and both expected values exist as Bochner integrals.
The difference of these Bochner integrals satisfies
The first inequality is the norm bound for a Bochner integral, and the second is the scalar Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Since , the first factor is at most
With the Hellinger distance convention of the original PDF, the second factor is . Multiplication proves the Hellinger bound for differences of expectations:
The proof uses only the two laws and their common dominating measure; no absolute continuity of measures assumption between and is needed.