‘Yes, he smoked and he drank, but how many more people in their eighties and nineties still smoke and drink a lot more than dad?’

Jackson Warne blames COVID vaccine for father’s death

Jackson Warne claims the COVID vaccine contributed to his famous father Shane’s death.

Australian cricket icon Shane Warne died of a sudden heart attack from natural causes while on holiday in Thailand in 2022, which was confirmed in an autopsy.

In the years since, Jackson has championed the Shane Warne Legacy, which offers and encourages free health checks to all Australians.

But until now, the 26-year-old has kept his true thoughts on his father’s passing to himself.

Asked on the 2Worlds Collide podcast if “the COVID shot killed your dad”, Warne didn’t hold back.

“I definitely think it was involved, and I don’t even think saying that is controversial anymore,” he claimed.

“Like, with the amount of data that’s come out, even if dad had underlying health issues, I think this brought it straight to the surface, and that’s one thing that I’ve always struggled with.

“Because my first impression as soon as I hung up the phone, I instantly blamed the government, I instantly blamed COVID and the vaccine.”

In the wake of his death, Shane was honoured with a state memorial at the MCG, which was attended by tens of thousands, and watched by millions around the world.

Jackson was one of many several speakers at the service — but he says he held back what he really wanted to say.

“Doing things like the state memorial where it’s funded by Vic gov and it’s at the MCG and there has to be certain due diligence and people in the crowds have to get photos and do all that stuff — I felt really uncomfortable,” Warne said.

“And at the state memorial, I nearly actually said, ‘I blame the government, I blame COVID’, but I didn’t. And it’s probably smart I didn’t. I would probably be in a very different position if I did, but that was how I felt.

“And so even the last three, four years when it’s come up in conversations, I have not changed my tune.

“Obviously at the end of the day, we’ll never ever know. The autopsy is there and people can go online and look at it and I know what’s happened to him.

“But dad at the time, he was healthy, he was happy, he actually looked the best he’d looked in a while.

“Yes, he smoked and he drank, but how many more people in their eighties and nineties still smoke and drink a lot more than dad?

“Yes, a lot of people were dying of heart attacks before, but I know, and this is how I feel — it might not be true — but dad was OK.”

Shane Warne was a popular cricket commentator over several years on Fox Sports in Australia and Sky Sports in the UK, for which he was required — like most other professions at the time — to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

“I think he might’ve got three or four (COVID shots). I know he didn’t want to get them, he was forced to get them for work. And he was forced to get them like everybody else,” Jackson said.

“Dad wasn’t the only person; I know when dad passed, he was probably the most famous Australian that people could go, ‘Yep, that’s COVID’. But I try not to think about it too much because all that does is just fest into more anger and anger, and that anger isn’t good for anybody.

“What we’re trying to do now with the Shane Warne Legacy is actually spread as much awareness for heart health as possible.

“Our mission is, I don’t want people to get the same phone call we got.

“I think a lot of people have realised now that there is nothing we can do for the people that have got vaccinated. The only alternative is actually to become the healthiest version of ourselves.

“And if something comes out like this again, at least we’re more awake, at least we’re more aware.”

He went on to add: “But yeah, going back to dad, even if it (the vaccine) didn’t directly (cause his death), if dad had underlying health issues, maybe he was going to have a heart attack at 65, 70 — I think all this just brought it to the surface.

“But I don’t even think that’s controversial to say. And it’s been over four years now — if I came out and said this at the state memorial or a month after or a year after, maybe it’s too soon.

“But I really do feel like now the position I’m in with all the information I’ve got, it has been over four years, that me talking about this, hopefully people… because I’ve had so many messages from people saying, ‘Just want to let you know, Jacko, my dad’s passed away of X, Y, Z. I also blame or have a feeling it’s COVID. Was your dad’s the same?’

“Dad wasn’t the only person. There was hundreds of thousands and millions of people all around the world.”