BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- The widow of Steve Irwin, the Australian Crocodile Hunter killed earlier this month in a stingray attack, has said that footage showing her husband's death will never be broadcast.

SteveIrwin with wife Terri and daughter Bindi.(Photo Yahoo.com) Photo Gallery Speaking in her first interview since the popular television star and conservationist died three weeks ago, Terri Irwin said that she had not seen the video capturing her husband's final moments, and that it would never be publicly aired if she could help it.

"Obviously my wish was that it would never see the light of day," she said. "I think that would be the most respectful thing. I can't see any purpose for bringing that out," she said.

The "shocking" film, is said to show the naturalist pulling the stingray barb from his chest after the fatal injury, before passing into unconsciousness.

In an emotional interview which drew in more than 2.5 million Australian viewers-- an eighth of the nation's population-- Mrs Irwin, originally from Oregon in the U.S., also revealed that her husband had a strong premonition that he would die young, but not at the hands of an attack by an animal.

"I never thought it would be an animal, he never though it would be an animal. That never entered my mind," Mrs Irwin said, her voice frequently breaking. "I thought he would fall out of a tree -- he figured it would be a car accident. We used to laugh about it."

Wearing the trademark khaki outfit favoured by her husband, Mrs Irwin talked about the impact the death of her "Prince Charming" had on her family. She told Australia's Channel Nine that her husband had been a rough-edged romantic, a loving father who had been determined to live his life to the fullest.

Mr Irwin, 44, died on Sept. 4 within minutes of being stabbed in the chest by a stingray's poisonous barb as he swam near the animal while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef.

His death prompted an unprecedented outpouring of grief in Australia and globally, amongst the 200 million viewers of his shows which were broadcast worldwide on the Discovery cable network. Enditem

(Agencies)