When King asked a teary Stainton how Terri was doing, Mr Stainton replied: "A lot worse than me".
Mr Stainton told how he travelled with Irwin's body in a casket on a seaplane from Cairns to Irwin's family on Queensland's Sunshine Coast yesterday.
"We brought him home last night because he has been in Cairns," Mr Stainton said.
"I travelled on the plane with him for six hours, just him and I. For five hours I couldn't stop crying. It was devastating."
When Irwin's family saw the casket, it brought a sense of reality that the larger than life Irwin had died, he said.
"The fact that we finally got him home and the family saw the casket last night, it was like a full stop," Mr Stainton said.
"Until you actually see that you can't imagine it.
"You think it's a dream and it's not happening. But it is and it has and it's done."
No comment necessary. I've been through it. It's just like he says.
Agreed. The tape should be destroyed.