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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GOOD I hope we never see that
Someone will steal it, somone will buy it, someone will show it somewhere and I will refuse to watch it.
Probably be on one of those wacky site like Rotton.org or something like that
I don't want it ever to be broadcast, but I also don't think it should be destroyed right now. It sounds like Law Enforcement will have to hang on to it for a good long time until all parts of a coroner's inquest and probate matters are handled.
It will be tempting for someone in a clerk's job with LE to be offered a huge bundle of money by a tabloid - enough to quit the job and retire in comfort - the longer it's kept in their storage lockers.
Steve always told them to keep the cameras rolling, even if an animal was devouring him - of course, no one would have done that, but those were his public comments about such a circumstance. I just think it would be rash to destroy it now, when something could later be learned from it.
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Yeah, there have been so many reports of little kids killed by mimicking Steve Irwin - NOT!
As Terri said, his death was a freak accident, like someone running with a pencil and falling on it or driving down the freeway and a piece of construction debris crashing through your windshield.
Boy by nature a few dangerous things while growing up. The exceptions to that are the ones who live under their mother's skirt.
"My nephew has pins in his ankle from trying to copy something they did on that show (Jackass)."
Your nephew was an idiot before he saw Jackass, not after.
My heart just breaks for her.
He loved animals, and was living and working with them long before the cameras were rolling.
I guess you think everyone needs to sit in a cubicle for the rest of their life.
Steve Irwin showed us a world that most people will never get to experience. And for that, I thank him.
Give me a break. Kids were playing with snakes and getting hurt doing stupid things long before they watched television.
Hope that Video is destroyed before it ever gets copied and finds itself on some internet blog or else were,
But I saw on the front page of one of those sleazy tabloid trash magazines that they had some so-called "death photos" of Steve Irwin. I don't know If they were authentic, but consider the source, as I DID NOT buy that piece of trash with thier LIES LIES LIES
Incedently, this is the same trash-hogs who insist President Bush and Laura Bush have split up when the opposite is true.
The fact that some sicko with a all too fondness for the "all-mighty" dollar would try to profit from a good man's death.
It's despicable!
Sorry about the rant.
Don't let them get to you.
God bless and comfort Terri and her children.
Mine, too. Didn't think it would be possible for me to cry any more about this loss of such a vibrant young life, but Terri "had me at hello" in the brief clips on GMA this morning from the Wawa interview tonight.
She said there will be home movies never seen in public before, among other features on tonight's special. They did also include many action clips from Steve's shows.
I despise the media for making a buck off of Irwin's death. Of course, that IS what they do, but I won't help boost the ratings.
No way do I want to sit and watch her pain.
I understand how you feel about it. Terri is definitely in pain, but wants to share it - and a trouble shared is divided by half, then half again and so on, ad infinitum.
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