Shane Warne’s daughter, Brooke, has opened up about her journey with grief, four years on from his death.
The cricket legend died in 2022 from a heart attack, and his daughter has shared that the grief still “comes in waves”.
“You learn how to live without a part of you. It’s such a weird thing, we like to say it comes in waves, when you’re going through it it’s like the waves of the ocean,” she told the Adelaide Advertiser.
“My Dad had this little saying – keep your head in the stars and your feet on the ground. Being grounded is very important so it’s been tough but I’m lucky to have the people around me that I do, the support network is very important.”
She admitted that some days are easier than others, but there are days where she still thinks that he will come home.
Brooke also said that one of the most difficult things about processing her grief was that she had to do it in the public eye, as his death made headlines around the world.
“Dad worked so hard his whole life and went through so much scrutiny and we have always dealt with it and unfortunately after he passed, it got bad for a while with people camping out the front of our house at 6am not even 12 hours after he had passed. But we have dealt with that since we were little and this time it was even more infuriating,” she said.
Brooke said it is a unique experience when people approach her to share how much they loved her father, or to tell their own stories about him, and that one of the ways she keeps his memory alive is through talking about him.
In a previous appearance on the Warnes Way Podcast, she opened up about the moment she found out about her father’s death, saying she “couldn’t breathe”, when her grandfather broke the news.
She also admitted that there was a period of time where she did not talk to her father.
“There was a stage that we didn’t speak for a little while because we wanted to give each other space and as hard as that was, I think it was the best thing for our relationship,” she said.
“If we both put our stubbornness aside earlier, we would have fixed our stuff earlier.
“I am very lucky that before everything happened with Dad we were able to figure everything out, which I am so grateful for.”
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