Brooke Warne has spoken publicly about the moment she learnt of her father Shane Warne’s death, describing the hours that unfolded as some of the most difficult of her life.
The cricket great died from a heart attack on March 4, 2022, at the age of 52 while on holiday in Thailand. In a new interview, Brooke, 28, reflected on where she was when the news reached their family.
She said she had been spending time with her siblings and their mother, Shane’s ex-wife Simone Callahan, when her brother Jackson received the first call from Shane’s manager, Andrew Neophitou.
The family was initially told Shane had suffered a heart attack, with a second call later confirming he had died.
“Not for one minute did I think something had happened to dad,” she emotionally told her brother Jackson on his Warnes Way podcast.
“We stood up, and I remember I couldn’t breathe.
“And when you hear [something like] that… I felt like I had like this out-of-body experience. I didn’t think what was happening was happening.”
Brooke said the family endured a tense 90-minute wait between the first and second phone calls. During that time, she convinced herself her father would recover.
“There was not any part of me that thought we were never going to see Dad ever again,” she devastatingly shared.
When the second call came, confirming the cricket legend had died, Brooke recalled her heartbreaking reaction.
“I screamed and cried,” she said.
Shane Warne shared Brooke and her siblings, Jackson, 26, and Summer, 23, with ex-wife Callahan.
In the years since his death, the family has established the Shane Warne Legacy to raise awareness about cardiometabolic health, continuing the impact he had both on and off the field.
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