Barbara Walters Interviews Terri Irwin (Live Thread)

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[mom4kittys]

Reminder--Airing tonight 10PM ET/9PM Central on ABC

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[Gay State Conservative]

If you were a twee,what twee would you be?

[mom4kittys]

Let's hope she doesn't start that ridiculous BS

[Fred Nerks]

thanks for the ping.

I would rather read FReeper comments than watch that woman wring tears out of a grief stricken widow. I loathe Walters.

[DJ MacWoW]

Thank you for the ping Lady! :)

[Jo Nuvark]

My daughter and I were praying for some evidence
that Irwin was saved. But when we saw Buddhist
Monks baptize Baby Bob, our hearts just sank like
a lazy croc.

The Irwin's appear to worship the creation, rather
than the Creator.

I will hold out hope that I will see Steve in heaven.
I will continue to pray that Terry, Bindi and Bob
will come to know the One True Living God, The
Creator of heaven and earth... Jehovah.

[vrwcagent0498]

Thank you for pinging me too. I think it's very brave of Teri to be speaking so soon after Steve's death.

[naturalman1975]

The first part of the Australian interview with Ray Martin can now be downloaded at:

http://rapidshare.de/files/34636755/terri01.rv.html

(Approx 18MB realplayer file, approx. 10 minutes)

I hope to get the rest up over the course of today.

Monitor this thread for location of files as they become available.

[mom4kittys]

They were visiting monks who happened to stop by the zoo and offered a blessing for Baby Bob.

[FreedomCalls]

From the Channel 9 interview with Ray Martin in Australia that aired earlier today:

Terri speaks: the pain of losing the Crocodile Hunter

Thursday September 28, 2006

Terri Irwin went into a cocoon of grief in the days after the stingray attack which ended her husband's life, with no idea of the immense public response to an accident which had torn her life apart.

"This really helps to know that so many people care . . . I love Australia . . . I'm a lucky woman," she said in an exclusive Nine Network interview as she gazed for the first time on the floral tributes outside Australia Zoo.

The heart-rending discussion with veteran journalist Ray Martin ranged over the pair's whirlwind romance 14 years ago, Steve's premonition of his own death, and Terri's feelings since the fatal accident.

"I was always worried about him diving," she said of the urgent phone call she received from her brother-in-law while conducting research in Tasmania. He told her Steve had had an accident while filming underwater.

"And I'm thinking 'don't say it, don't say it, don't say it.' But he said those three words. He said 'and he died'."

She was then faced with the task of telling her daughter Bindi, 8, and three-year-old son Robert.

"I told her exactly what had happened . . . and I said 'life is like a book and this is the next chapter'."

She said the Crocodile Hunter would have been the last person to wish harm on the animal that killed him.

"It was a complete and total accident, rays are beautiful gentle creatures," she said. "You know how you're always told not to run with scissors, and it never happens? It was just running with scissors, it was just a crazy accident, that's all."

Terri Irwin also spoke of her croc-wrangling husband's premonition he would die young.

"He had a very strong conviction he would [die young] . . . I'm grateful in a way, because we were prepared for it," she said.

She said she worried about him when she was not with him.

"He'd go to places he'd affectionately call 'Lake Malaria' ... Those kinds of things really scared me."

"I was afraid of him diving, not for the animals but for the apparatus with something going wrong.

Despite Steve's powers of intuition — demonstrated numerous times in practical situations according to his wife — he never believed a wild animal would kill him.

"I never feared for him with animals . . . he was a consummate professional," she said. "The things that were death defying were amazing to him."

The pair met 14 years ago at one of Steve's crocodile demonstrations, and according to Terri, it was love at first sight.

"It was a fairytale. You know why I'm so lucky, I knew it when I lived it. It wasn't always easy, but it was magical," Terri said, barely holding back tears.

Terri declared that neither her husband's final resting place nor the footage of his death — which she has not seen — will ever be made public.

The video shows the moment a stingray lashed its tail at Irwin, swimming in shallow water on the Great Barrier Reef, sending a serrated barb through his heart.

The incident and Irwin's subsequent death became world news and generated a massive response. Up to 300 million people around the globe watched Irwin's memorial at Australia Zoo.

[mom4kittys]

Thank you!

[FreedomCalls]

Can you put them on Youtube? Rapidshare limits how many downloads you can do.

[naturalman1975]

I am hoping someone else will put them on youtube after downloading - I can't get youtube to reliably accept uploads over dialup and I am limited to dialup at the moment.

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks for the ping, I will be watching with a large box of tissues.

[DaveLoneRanger]

Thanks. I'm going to try to get home and watch this. Especially since class is cancelled for the evening! Yay!

[DaveLoneRanger]

If Terri agreed, then you shouldn't be so mad.

I don't watch Babs Wawa enough to dislike her, but I'll wait and see how/what she does with Terri.

[FreedomCalls]

OK, thanks.

[mom4kittys]

I know it was an early reminder, but I wanted to make sure everybody got a chance to try to plan on watching tonight.

[LadyPilgrim]

Thank you dear!

[dead]

They should interview me, because I'm the only person in the whole world who will admit that he wants to see the death video.

I'm just curious. So shoot me.

[mom4kittys]

Well, Steve had said that he wanted his death to be viewed if it was caught on video, but it is Terri's decision now.

I wouldn't be able to watch, it would be too painful. I felt like I knew Steve Irwin and considered him family. I think I would rather remember him vibrant and alive.

[dead]

I want to see what sort of killer moves a stingray has, and I want to see what he was doing right before it struck.

I don't believe that there's ever been another fatal stingray attack caught on film. Before one killed him, I didn't even know they were dangerous.

[kstewskis]

just watching the preview pics of Terri's grief stricken eyes gave me a lump in my throat.

Thanks for the ping!

[HungarianGypsy]

I'm just curious. So shoot me

Wouldn't matter. You're already dead. ;-)

[HungarianGypsy]

Well, Steve had said that he wanted his death to be viewed if it was caught on video, but it is Terri's decision now.

And my husband says when he dies he wants to be placed in a plexi-glass coffin with his eyes open and anamtronics on his hands, so it looks like he's trying to get out. He knows that's not going to happen also.

Those who died may have certain wishes they want to have carried out regarding their deaths, but it's the living who have to grieve through it. I'm just babbling.

[kstewskis]

And my husband says when he dies he wants to be placed in a plexi-glass coffin with his eyes open and anamtronics on his hands, so it looks like he's trying to get out. He knows that's not going to happen also.

Your husband sounds like an absolute hoot!

[mom4kittys]

Wow, your husband sounds creative! What kind of work does he do?

[Guenevere]

Well said.
I was hoping for the same thing.

[mom4kittys]

They were visiting Buddhists who offered a blessing. They did not baptize Baby Bob.

[Fawn]

Thanks....

[Fawn]

You'd be a fruit twee ....right?

[mom4kittys]

snort snort

[BunnySlippers]

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I was just going to ping you to remind you about the program tonight. You are so sweet to include me. :)

I'm Pacific Coast ... so if you see it first consider commenting!

[Rte66]

If HG says he's a Muppet, then we'll know!

[mom4kittys]

Snippet coming up on the O'Reily Factor after the break.

[Rte66]

Dontcha think she'd say gum tree? Or maybe plum tree?

[mom4kittys]

You are all very welcome--I was happy to do it.

[Gay State Conservative]

Dontcha think she'd say gum tree? Or maybe plum tree?

The purpose of my post wasn't to show disrespect for Irwin's widow but,rather,was meant to show disdain for that lightweight Baba Wawa.

[mom4kittys]

Ha! (maybe a mad scientist?)

[mom4kittys]

I got it. Typical Baba Wawa. Did you ever see the SNL skits?

[Gay State Conservative]

I got it. Typical Baba Wawa. Did you ever see the SNL skits?

I loved the SNL skits.Gilda Radner was a true genius.

[MilspecRob]

yea, whatever

[Rte66]

I know that. I was referring to the song from the Memorial Service:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704497/posts?page=215#215

This chorus:

"... Give me a home amongst the gum trees
with lots of plum trees, a sheep or two, a kangaroo
A clothes line out the back, verandah out the front,
and a old rocking chair. ..."

[Jo Nuvark]

I wish Terry had not taken the interview. Barbara
Walters has been exploiting dysfunction and grief
for profit her entire career.

[Sue Perkick]

He certainly has a sense of humor. LOL.

[TexasTransplant]

Thanks for th ping, (Crikey we miss Steve), my kids just love him.

TT

[meema]

Thanks, mom4kittys.
I'm TiVoing it.
Apparently Terri said in an interview that they never expected an ANIMAL to hurt Steve...I can't understand that. Did they think he was immune, too quick, or what? I'm afraid he just became too cocky. Those are WILD ANIMALS.
It's a terrible shame.

[mom4kittys]

I read somewhere that after his mother died, he thought he may die the same way--in a car crash.

[meema]

I wish Terry had not taken the interview. Barbara Walters has been exploiting dysfunction and grief for profit her entire career.

I agree, and haven't seen BW in years, and I wish Terri hadn't decided to use her! I can't stand the woman.