Russell Crowe became friends with Steve Irwin in the 1990s, and after Steve's passing in 2006 the Oscar winner was there for the Irwin family in ways that no-one knew about until now. "We've been friends for about 30 years," Steve's wife Terri tells HELLO! at the 2025 AFI Fest premiere for Russell's new film, Nuremberg . "Russell was friends with Steve first, and then when Steve passed, he really took our family under his wing and looked after us, took care of us, and helped me with advice about my kids."

Both Terri and Russell are raising "July and December babies which is pretty cool," laughed Terri; Steve and Terri welcomed daughter Bindi in July 1998 and Robert in December 2003, while Russell is dad to son Charles, born December 2003, and Tennyson in July 2006.

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