Posted on 09/26/2006 9:26:47 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
FOOTAGE of Steve Irwin's death will never be shown on television, Terri Irwin has told American journalist Barbara Walters.
Clutching a handkerchief and her eyes red from crying, Terri spoke emotionally to Walters about her fairytale marriage with crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin.
Walters, one of America's best known TV journalists, flew to Queensland last week for the interview.
Asked whether the footage of Irwin's September 4 death would ever be aired on television, Terri was blunt and emphatic.
"It won't be. No. No. What purpose would that serve,' she said, adding that she had not looked at the footage of her husband's death.
That footage shows Irwin swimming above a stingray, while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef, when it lashed out and speared him in the heart with its barbed tail, according to Irwin's manager, John Stainton, who said Irwin pulled the barb from his chest before losing consciousness.
US-born Terri said her 44-year-old husband knew he would not live a long life.
"He'd talk about it often. But it wasn't because of any danger from wildlife. That was never a consideration. He just felt life could be dangerous," she said in the interview, to be broadcast in the US tomorrow evening.
"It was an accident so stupid. It was like running with a pencil. It was not risk he was taking," she said. "It was just an accident. And I couldn't fall to pieces because the children were there.
"I have to make sure the zoo keeps running," Terri said.
"He planned all of that masterfully. He planned this wonderful business so that it could continue if anything happened to him."
She said she was surviving "one minute at a time" and that what she would miss most about him was that he was fun.
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..kids do imitate things they see on TV and the movies...
..time and again, we read reports of kids injuring themselves by watching Jackass..or shows of that nature.
I'm sure you would like to retract calling the relative of Darren Williams idiot..wouldn't you Rb ver whatever...
..or maybe not....maybe you enjoy calling people names
Many years ago, when I was 3, I'm told I pulled a chair out from someone about to sit in it, because I had seen such a 'gag' on TV....
...I hate to think I would do that, but at 3 how would I know it would hurt?....it sure didn't on TV.
And Rb ver whatever, don't even think about calling me a name....do you understand
Your problem is that stingrays are not dangerous aggressive animals. If you actually knew anything, you'd know that. And no one has died by mimicking Irwin. So your whole rant is meaningless.
I stand by my statement. Kids are stupid and do stupid things. Any kid who attempts a Jackass Stunt is an idiot, mine, yours or Darren Williams nephew.
Sharing grief is an important part of the process and I think that's what Terri Irwin is doing. When my Granddaughter died in a car accident we learned that very few people know how to deal with grieving and death. It makes them uncomfortable. The grieving want to talk. They want to share stories. That's what Terri Irwin is doing. I just wish it was someone else interviewing her.
I wonder why whoever has it just doesn't destroy it.
Seems suspicious that they don't.
Becky
I think she needs to tell the world how wonderful her husband was. I hope this interview will help her grief and pain.
I had wondered that too. But it seems because there will be an inquest into his death, the tape has to be preserved as evidence. Hopefully they will finish soon & this thing can be destroyed as soon as possible.
And I hope she kicks Baba Wawa as she leaves the room. : )
Maybe she could, um, accidently leave her in Agros enclosure. ;)
Send her over to Murry ;o)
Poor crocs. We're trying to poison them. :)
She'd give them a really bad case of indigestion and diarehhia!
Or was that Hillary :o)
Apparently, he signed up to post on a Schiavo thread.
He got the wrong Terri.
If we include Hillary we could give the naughty Graham indigestion too.
I don't want to do that to Graham or the Charlie either<p.Maybe Acco?
Since Grahahm bit Wes, I'd give him indigestion. lol
Then give Graham indigestion! ;O)
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