Shane Warne’s daughter Brooke and son Jackson have shared new details about the moment they learned the former cricketer had died during a holiday in Thailand almost four years ago.
Brooke Warne was appearing on her brother Jackson’s Warnes Way Podcast when attention turned to the night their father died in March 2022.
She also revealed for the first time she and her father did not speak for some time but patched things up shortly before he died after suffering a massive heart attack.
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Jackson introduced his sister as an aspiring chef and said she was the first woman to appear on his podcast, which invites guests from the sporting and entertainment worlds to talk about the cricket great.
After talking about growing up in the public eye and recalling some of her favourite memories of their dad, he asked Brooke to talk about the events of March 4, 2022.
“I have never spoken about this,” she said.
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Brooke recalled it was a Friday night and herself, her boyfriend Alex, Jackson, and his girlfriend Kiah had gone to their younger sister Summer’s house, where they were watching a movie.
“We were having such a nice night… and you got the phone call from Neo [Warne’s close friend Andrew Neophitou],” Brooke said, recalling she at first thought from his demeanor that “something had happened to Nan and Pa”.
“Not for one minute did I think something had happened to Dad.
“I remember you hung up the phone and said, ‘Dad’s had a heart attack’.”
“I said, ‘Dad’s had a massive heart attack’,” Jackson corrected his sister, who said she “couldn’t breathe” on hearing the news.
After their mother Simone Callaghan returned from picking up their sister Summer, who was out for dinner, they waited for word and constantly rang for updates, but were told there were none.
“There was not any part of me that thought we were never going to see Dad again,” Jackson said, “I looked at him as Superman.”
But as the hours passed, Brooke recalled her brother telling her something was wrong just minutes before Shane’s father called.
“Pa said, ‘Simone, are you with the kids? Unfortunately, the doctors have done everything they could’, and that is when we started screaming, ‘But unfortunately Shane has passed’.”
After their mother put the phone down, Brooke said Summer collapsed while she again ‘couldn’t breathe’.
Jackson said that within minutes of receiving word, his phone started buzzing as the news was made public.
After a sleepless night, the next morning they found photographers and media outside the home and said they had to hang sheets in their window before neighbours used their cars to block the street.
Almost four years on, Brooke said grief continues to come in waves.
”Grief never goes away. You learn how to deal with it and how to deal with those people not being here but you deal with grief for the rest of your life,” she said.
While Jackson said a friend’s father’s wedding speech recently reminded him that his father won’t be there for the special moments in their lives, Brooke said “it’s the little stuff” she misses most, such as “driving in the car, staying at Crown, eating a pizza”.
Elsewhere in the podcast, Brooke spoke about the period she and her father didn’t speak to each other.
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“I think for such a long time there was stuff that Dad and I didn’t talk about with each other that we should have but we were both too stubborn,” she said.
”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.
“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.”
Brooke said the siblings went through a lot as kids due to growing up in the public eye and their parents’ very public divorce.
But she said they had turned out OK because “we were so loved” by both of their parents.
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