Shane Warne’s ex-wife has opened up about the devastating moment she realised he had died as their son Jackson makes a devasting confession about his grief.
Speaking to Jackson on his podcast Warnes Way, Simone Callahan — who also shares Brooke and Summer with Warne — recalled the phone call she received in March, 2022 after the cricketing legend was found dead in a Thailand villa from a massive heart attack.
“It didn’t feel real,’’ Callahan said.
“We were all there, we were watching a movie, I think we were doing facemasks, we were just having a normal Friday night.
“Then that just unfolded the way it did, and having to go back to Melbourne and get Summer and getting a call on the way back saying ‘are you nearly home?’
“I think when I got that message, I thought ‘this isn’t good if they’re asking me if I’m nearly home with Summer’ because they wanted us all together before we had that next phone call.
“Our lives were changed forever in that moment.”
Callahan — who was married to Warne for ten years — said she doesn’t remember a lot of that period of time.
“I had so much going on because I was worried about you guys because you were being pulled left, right and centre to organise the funeral and the memorial,’’ she said.
“And there was so much going on. And I always felt a sense of guilt that you were having to deal with that.
“You guys were young, but it was out of my control and it was hard for me to see all that.”
The 56-year-old said she was proud of how their three kids handled the tragic situation.
“I was so proud of the way you guys handled yourselves and I knew you would, but it was very hard for me to watch and see you guys go through all that,” Callahan said,
“It was really heavy and you guys had really heavy hearts and you didn’t have a moment to really grieve at all during that time.”
Jackson admitted he doesn’t know if he has truly accepted that his father is gone.
“We got so use to dad being away working all the time and playing for Australia… that to me it just feels like dad’s on another work trip or dad’s out playing cricket or he’ll be back soon,” Jackson said.
“Maybe I’ll be on a beach somewhere, or playing in the world series or whatever it is and the light bulb moment will happen that ‘no, no, no dad isn’t coming back,’ maybe (I’ll accept it) when I have a kid or when I get married.”
Jackson said immediately after his dad’s death he put his emotions aside and tried to do things that would make his father proud.
“I felt a sense of duty that I know dad would want me to do this,’’ Jackson said.
“You’re not a big crier, dad’s not a really big crier. I haven’t had that big cry yet… some people say it comes years after or in two or three years or whatever it is.”
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