Australian sporting icon Adam Goodes has revealed his one regret in life following the shock death of his beloved mother last year.
Adam, 43, spoke about the moment he realised the trauma his late mum Lisa Sansbury had gone through as part of the Stolen Generation in a rare, new interview.
"I like to live my life with no regrets," Adam told English football star Rio Ferdinand on his Get Real With Rio series.
"Unfortunately, she lived a really tough life... she was taken away when she was five and put into a white family like a lot of her siblings were and she didn't know at the time that she was one of 10 [children], never to reconnect with her mother and father again.
"As a father... it just breaks my heart to think that she was living in fear her whole life that someone could knock on the door and take her kids away at any moment if she wasn't doing the right thing by us kids."
REMEMBERING MUM
Lisa, who passed away aged 62 following a heart attack in February 2022, played a prominent role at some of Adam's biggest moments in sport, famously helping wipe away his tears when he accepted the Australian of the Year award in 2014.
This story is from the June 19, 2023 edition of Woman's Day Australia.
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