Steve Irwin, also known as “The Crocodile Hunter,” passed away in 2006, yet he made his mark on history.

Given how young he was at the time, the terrible incident that happened roughly 12 years ago surprised everyone.

Terri Irwin talked about Steve Irwin’s passing in an interview. Terri recently made an emotional statement when appearing on the Australian television show “Anh’s Brush With Fame.”

The 53-year-old widow attended the event to promote her work as an anti-culling crusader, but the conversation quickly turned to her late husband. Her quirky husband Steve wouldn’t have been at all surprised, she assured his admirers.

He didn’t anticipate living a long life. He always had the impression that his life would be short.

Unfortunately, Steve was right when a stingray approached him and wounded him in the chest with its barb while they were filming “Ocean’s Deadliest” in Queensland, Australia. Terri got a call telling her to discuss the occurrence with her zoo manager. When Terri thinks back to when she discovered, she says,

“I just remember this overwhelming sense of duty and pain, and I also remember thinking, ‘What do I do now?'”

When I had sort of collected my thoughts, it was really difficult for me to walk out to the car and tell Bindi and Robert.

Tears welled up in Terri’s eyes as she remembered the last time she had seen her husband, who had stayed behind to film the documentary while she and the kids traveled to Tasmania.

“I can still picture him waving off at the airport. That was the last time we saw him.

After 11 years, the anguish no longer acts as a rock in your heart but rather follows you about. Every day is difficult. She continued, “It’s always there, and I never really know when it’s going to hit me.

Terri has admitted that the death of Steve Irwin still causes her some difficulty.

She acknowledged that she was still grieving Steve “constantly,” but she was grateful that she had found her “happy ever after” with the environmentalist.

After being stabbed in the heart by a stingray while filming on the Great Barrier Reef close to Port Douglas on September 4, 2006, Steve, 44, passed tragically.

Terri admits that the outpouring of sympathy that transpired as soon as news of Steve’s passing circulated would have shocked him. The person who would have been most surprised by the outpouring of concern and compassion would have been Steve.

Unfortunately, he left behind his wife and two young kids, who still share their father’s love of nature. Terri asserts that despite Steve’s popularity over the years, she has always admired the way it never had a detrimental impact on him.

The idea of being famous didn’t occur to Steve. We did invest all of our earnings on animal conservation and it was one of the things I admired most about him. That makes me immensely proud.

That’s probably a valid assumption, given it’s one of the reasons he was so adored and why people still talk about him. Thankfully, his loving wife and children are continuing his incredible legacy.