Sam Newman’s eerie premonition before discovering wife Amanda Brown’s body

A heartbroken Sam Newman has revealed a casual comment to friends that proved tragically prophetic after his wife Amanda Brown died in their home over the weekend.

Amanda, 50, was found dead inside the couple’s Melbourne apartment on Saturday night, sparking an outpouring of grief from the footy community.

Newman and Brown got married in October last year and had been together for nearly two decades before she suddenly passed.

Earlier in the week, entertainment reporter Peter Ford revealed that Newman had tried in vain to contact his wife after going out with friends for fish and chips.

When he arrived home, he found her dead, but after calling Triple-0, he attempted CPR for 20 minutes despite admitting he knew it was too late.

Speaking on his podcast You Cannot Be Serious, Newman detailed the horrific events of Saturday night.

“I’d been working on a boat, which Amanda hated incidentally, and I was working with someone on it 300m from where she was and Rod here, I rang him and we’re going down to get fish and chips to eat for dinner, and I thought Amanda might want to come with us,” he said on the podcast.

“We get down to where we’re going … and I tried to ring her to ask if she wanted to come down. We’d rung her, I’d rung her six times.

“So we got down there, we’re sitting around eating the fish and chips and I said, ‘I wonder where Amanda is’ and we all … I don’t know if I should say this.”

Amanda Brown and Sam Newman together on his boat.Source:Supplied

One of Newman’s co-hosts replied that she shouldn’t continue with this part of the tale, but he did.

“We’re joking about, ‘She might be out at a venue or out at the pub or out with the girls or out doing something’ and I said, ‘She’s probably lying dead up in the flat’, just as an aside.

“And I said, ‘Oh, she could have been in an accident’.

“I get home and I walk in the door and the television’s on in the bedroom. So I look down there and lying in her underwear — she’d obviously been in bed or she got out of bed to get something to eat.

“She’s lying there on the tiles outside the laundry and as soon as I saw her I knew she was dead, I just knew it.”

Newman: ‘I want to do this’

The 75-year-old Newman told the Herald Sun over the weekend: “I’m just devastated, I can’t say anything else”.

But Newman opened up on his podcast, just days after the tragic loss.

A tearful Newman chose to speak about his late wife, telling his listeners and co-hosts: “I want to do this.

“I’ve had a pretty tough week so before I start, I don’t want anyone listening to this to feel sorry for me,” Newman said. “There’s plenty of people that suffer adversity everyday of their lives and I’m not singling myself out for sympathy or anything like that.

“I’ve had people reach out to me, you wouldn’t believe the people who’ve reached out to me who’ve suffered similar episodes in their life.

“There’ll be a significant amount of people that don’t have sympathy for me and that’s fine too. They’ll say I got what I deserved and good luck and good riddance and all that, and I understand that and I don’t mind if you have that opinion of me and what happened to me. That’s fine because I’m a polarising influence I suppose.”

Sam Newman with Amanda Brown.Source:News Limited

Newman and Brown had lived together for the past 15 years and wed in November 2020, just over six months ago.

He finished the podcast with a heartbreaking tribute to the woman he loved.

“I have never been happier in the last decade and arriving home at the end of a day was such a genuinely pleasant thing I looked forward to. There was never any harbouring angst pent-up in either of us,” Newman said.

“If there is a greater presence guiding us I’d like to think it is why I planned to marry her sixth months out from her 50th birthday. So, on the 20th November 2020, she opened a knock on the door and in the presence of my friend and celebrant Greg Evans, my dear and longtime friend Kevin King and my eldest son Jack, we became Mr and Mrs Newman.

“I have never seen someone so happy with genuine pride to be my wife, and I thank God for the memory of that day.

“She was loyal and loving, concerned and protective and as strong willed as any person I have ever met. I will always love her for who she was and what she was.

“An adage I’ve cited often when people face adversity is, ‘Never cry over things that can’t cry over you’. I’ve cried a lot over Amanda Newman.

“Finally, another adage I value is, ‘There are many things in life that catch your eye, but only a few things catch your heart. Pursue those’.

“Amanda Newman certainly caught my eye and above all she caught my heart.”

Sam Newman’s 20-year relationship

Sam Newman with Amanda Brown.Source:News Limited

Newman and Brown were married inside their luxury apartment in Docklands last year with only close family and friends in attendance. The ceremony was officiated by Perfect Match host Greg Evans, and close friend Kevin King stepped in as Newman’s best man.

It marked the fourth time the 75-year-old had tied the knot, the ceremony taking place just days after Brown’s 50th birthday.

The couple were first pictured in the public eye back in 2001, celebrating New Year’s Eve at Crown Casino.

Brown remained out of the public spotlight while Newman often copped fierce backlash for comments made on social media or his podcast.

Newman is a member of the Geelong Hall of Fame, having played 300 games for the club between 1964-80.

He has also had an extensive career in media, as a broadcast commentator and one of the faces of the AFL Footy Show from 1994 until 2018.

The pair were notoriously private, rarely posing for photographs together.

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