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Todd Woodbridge has shared a disgusting and “unacceptable” message he recently received from an online troll regarding his recent heart attack.
As part of the commentary team for the Australian Open, the 16-time grand slam doubles champion revealed a viewer who was not a fan of his work, sent him a message saying it was a “shame” that a 2022 heart attack “didn’t end you.”
“Matt didn’t like my commentary alongside Jim Courier but this sort of behaviour is unacceptable and needs to be called out,” Woodbridge wrote in a Twitter post.
The message read: “Just (an) old has been trying to stay in the limelight. Shame (the) heart attack didn’t end you”.
It didn’t take long for the support to roll in for Woodbridge.
“That’s disgusting mate,” replied Aussie tennis player Luke Saville.
“This is the bad side of social media. Trolls like this need to be called out,” wrote Channel 9 commentator Peter Psaltis.
“What a big man Matt is,” said former journalist Debbie Spillane. “You’d be embarrassed to know him, wouldn’t you?”
Lucy Turnbull, former Sydney Lord Mayor and wife of Malcolm also expressed her disgust.
“Vile. The amount of times trolls on Twitter utter angry commands like ‘shut up’ and much worse is just horrible. I wonder what their friends and families would think about it. They hide behind the cloak of anonymity. Still ugly behaviour. Keeping on strong is the best response!”
Woodbridge suffered a mild heart attack last October while exercising at his home gym.
“I’d done a bit of a warm-up, started to do some weights, and I got a bit of a feeling, like one finger being pushed into the middle of my chest,” Woodbridge told Wide World of Sports after the attack.
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“I tried to shake it out, like you do sometimes, thinking it’s come from working out, but it wouldn’t go away.
“It started to spread across my chest. It wasn’t pain, it was like a heavy pressing. I was short of breath, got the sweats, I felt nausea which made me go pale white.”
Woodbridge wants everyone to take their health seriously and get checked regularly.
“The message is don’t put off what you’ve been saying you’ll do. A day becomes a week, which becomes a month, then six months, and before you know it a year has gone by and you haven’t done what you need to do for your health,” Woodbridge said.
“The most important thing to remember is you need to do it not just for yourself, but for your family and your friends.
“They are the ones who’ll take it hard if something does happen.”
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