And don’t forget –she is her father’s daughter she was a born communicator.’ Steve and Terri ‘Bindi wanted to tell the world how she felt because that gave her a tiny bit of control in a situation where she had none. ‘I didn’t suggest it and nobody coerced her,’ says Terri, who is herself a naturalist.
When Bindi stood up and spoke at his televised memorial service a few weeks later, to a global audience of 300 million, her grief and courage broke hearts. The irrepressible showman and moptop father to Bindi, then aged eight and Robert, two, was 44 years old. Why would I? I know how my husband died and I was relieved that the children weren’t on the boat as they usually would be it would have been horrendous if they had witnessed it.’ ‘That film was a complete fabrication exploiting people’s sadness.
‘After Steve died, 100 million viewers watched a video of his death that was released on YouTube,’ says his 54-year-old widow Terri. Image: Animal Planet/Jason Elias/Discovery Communications, Inc. Terri at her zoo in Queensland, Australia with one of the tigers she’s fighting to conserve. His shock, the blood and the distress is all there.
He was filming a documentary series named, with awful irony, Ocean’s Deadliest. The film captures the terrible moment the internationally renowned Aussie naturalist and TV personality known as The Crocodile Hunter was attacked by a stingray. Somewhere, languishing in a filing cabinet of an Australian police station, there is footage of Steve Irwin’s death 12 years ago. She tells Judith Woods about the one thing that’s helped… But 12 years after he was killed by a stingray while filming, she still finds it difficult to move on. When Terri Irwin married TV ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve, she knew that any day could be their last together.
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