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Camera IconFormer West Coast Eagle Adam Hunter and partner Latisha Yacoub. Credit: Unknown\/Supplied<\/p>\nThe grieving partner of Adam Hunter has detailed the West Coast star\u2019s harrowing final moments, as a coronial inquiry pinpointed meth-induced heart failure as the cause of his death.<\/p>\n
Latisha Yacoub administered CPR to Hunter as he lay on their bedroom floor on the night of February 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was screaming at him to keep his eyes open,\u201d she told The West Australian in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was looking at me. He couldn\u2019t move anything except his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said \u2018just don\u2019t die on me\u2019. That was the last time he looked at me and then he closed his eyes and I started CPR.\u201d<\/p>\n
The WA Coroner believes the Eagle\u2019s drug use exacerbated his heart complications, which included cardiac hypertrophy \u2014 a thickening of the heart walls \u2014 and coronary artery disease.<\/p>\n
Camera IconFormer West Coast Eagle Adam Hunter and partner Latisha Yacoub. Credit: Unknown\/Supplied<\/p>\n
Hunter\u2019s drug use was well known but Ms Yacoub said most people underestimated how far his addiction had overtaken his life.<\/p>\n
He blew all the money he earned while on high-paying contracts with the Eagles, had his houses repossessed and died bankrupt after selling almost all his football memorabilia to pay his dealers.<\/p>\n
Ms Yacoub, 41, said that despite the challenges of living with an addict, she never stopped loving him.<\/p>\n
\u201cBesides all the s..t stuff, to me he was still amazing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Yacoub first met Hunter when she was 18 and he had just been drafted to the Eagles.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was just so attentive and nice,\u201d she said. \u201cHe would do things like drop in and see me at lunchtime and call in sick for me by pretending to be my brother so we could spend the day together.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were both very young and it was a bit of a whirlwind. But I suspected I wasn\u2019t the only woman in his life, which I kind of understood because West Coast players at that time were always being chased by the girls.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ended up finding out about someone else and we lost touch. We started seeing each other again in August 2022 and I told him then that he would never hurt me like that again.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe kind of rolled his eyes and said \u2018have you really been holding this grudge all this time?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought he had changed and when I realised he hadn\u2019t I had already fallen in love with him again.\u201d<\/p>\n