Carrie Bickmore praises partner Chris Walker for his support after husband Greg Lange passed away

Carrie Bickmore has detailed her partner Chris Walker’s support when it comes to grieving her late husband Greg Lange, who died of brain cancer in 2010.

The Project host explained that Chris has a ‘huge amount of compassion’ towards her as he ‘understands loss’ after losing people close to him too.

Speaking to TV WEEK, the 39-year-old admitted that her efforts in raising $12million for her foundation, Beanies 4 Brain Cancer, ‘wouldn’t be possible without the support’ of Chris. 

When asked how it felt to have Chris’ support with her brain cancer research foundation, especially when it took her back to a time he wasn’t a part of, Carrie had nothing but gratitude for him.

‘He like many people understand loss and suffered his own loss in life and I think he just has a huge amount of compassion and he will always be incredibly supportive of me and for our family.’

Carrie added: ‘And yes, it was a time when he wasn’t around, but it was a time that was huge in my life and he loves me, and he will do whatever I need to make sure I can do what I need to do to change the statistics.

‘I’ll be there to support him in his life as we will for our kids. I think that’s why I love him so much and why I guess I don’t take it for granted because I couldn’t do anything without him.’

Talking to Anh Do on his ABC series Anh’s Brush With Fame in 2018, Carrie revealed Greg’s diagnosis in 2001 shattered her world.

‘It was about a year after we moved to Melbourne. I think I was still 21 or 22 and he was about 25. He had a seizure at home, and one thing led to another, and they diagnosed him with a brain tumour,’ she tearfully explained.

‘It was just… in your twenties that is just the last thing that you can ever – I didn’t even really know anyone that had cancer, I didn’t know anything about brain cancer, neither did he.

‘It completely threw everything we knew, everything we had planned, everything we thought… it just threw everything on its head.’

Not knowing what the future would hold for them, the couple had their first child together, Oliver, now 12, in 2005 – with Carrie admitting it was ‘probably the greatest thing we ever did together’.

Carrie also has daughter Evie, four, and her youngest child, Adelaide, 11 months, who she shares with her partner Chris Walker.