‘He couldn't move': AFL hero's tragic final moments revealed
Latisha Yacoub administered CPR to Hunter as he lay on their bedroom floor on the night of February 4.
'I was screaming at him to keep his eyes open,' she told The West Australian in an exclusive interview.
'He was looking at me. He couldn't move anything except his head.
'I said 'just don't die on me'. That was the last time he looked at me and then he closed his eyes and I started CPR.'
The WA Coroner believes the Eagle's drug use exacerbated his heart complications, which included cardiac hypertrophy — a thickening of the heart walls — and coronary artery disease. Former West Coast Eagle Adam Hunter and partner Latisha Yacoub. Credit: Unknown / Supplied
Hunter's drug use was well known but Ms Yacoub said most people underestimated how far his addiction had overtaken his life.
He blew all the money he earned while on high-paying contracts with the Eagles, had his houses repossessed and died bankrupt after selling almost all his football memorabilia to pay his dealers.
Ms Yacoub, 41, said that despite the challenges of living with an addict, she never stopped loving him.
'Besides all the s..t stuff, to me he was still amazing,' she said.
Ms Yacoub first met Hunter when she was 18 and he had just been drafted to the Eagles.
'He was just so attentive and nice,' she said. 'He would do things like drop in and see me at lunchtime and call in sick for me by pretending to be my brother so we could spend the day together.
'We were both very young and it was a bit of a whirlwind. But I suspected I wasn't the only woman in his life, which I kind of understood because West Coast players at that time were always being chased by the girls.
'I ended up finding out about someone else and we lost touch. We started seeing each other again in August 2022 and I told him then that he would never hurt me like that again.
'He kind of rolled his eyes and said 'have you really been holding this grudge all this time?'
'I thought he had changed and when I realised he hadn't I had already fallen in love with him again.'
Read the full exclusive interview on thewest.com for heartbreaking details on Adam Hunter's battle with drug addiction.
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