Elizabeth and Damian Hurley
Loving memories of the late Shane Warne
Elizabeth and Damian Hurley mourn the loss of cricketer Shane Warne.
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With family photos and loving words, Elizabeth Hurley and her son Damian mourn the passing of ex-cricketer Shane Warne.
Actress Elizabeth Hurley (56) and her son Damian (19) said goodbye to Hurley’s former fiancé Shane Warne (1969-2022) in loving Instagram posts. The Australian cricketer, who died suddenly in March at the age of 52 after a heart attack in Thailand, was “a father figure in my formative years” for Damian Hurley. “I’m still trying to figure it out” the 19-year-old writes about a series of family photos, which also show Warne’s three biological children. “He really was one of the best men I’ve ever met,” he continues. “My heart is broken.”
Elizabeth Hurley, who was engaged to Warne from 2011 to 2013, also found emotional words: “It feels like the sun has disappeared behind a cloud forever,” said the British woman to several photos of the couple. “Rest in peace, my beloved lionheart.”
The actress and the cricket star have consistently found warm words for each other even after their split. Warne looked according to the Daily Mail on the relationship as the “happiest time of my life”. They have always remained good friends and kept in close contact, also because their children are friends with each other, he explained in 2018.
Damian Hurley lost his birth father in 2020
Shane Warne’s death is Damian Hurley’s second major loss in recent years: His biological father, US businessman Steve Bing (1965-2020), died in Los Angeles in June 2020. There is said to have been no contact between Hurley and Bing, and in July 2020 a court ruled that Damian, as an “illegitimate child”, was excluded from the multimillionaire’s inheritance.
“This is a very strange and confusing time for me, but I’m so thankful to have my phenomenal family and friends around me,” the model wrote on Instagram shortly after Bing’s death.
At the time he “didn’t realize how badly it would affect me”, Damian Hurley wrote a year later on the first anniversary of Bing’s death. “Discussing publicly” something as personal as grief is “terrifying” for him. But sometimes it’s “necessary,” says Damian Hurley.