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REPORTER: Naomi Robson
BROADCAST DATE: February 7, 2005
Today Tonight had an exclusive interview with Australia's golden couple,
Bec Cartwright and Lleyton Hewitt. Below is the transcript.
Naomi Robson (Today Tonight host): Well, first things first. Can we please
have a look at the ring that all of Australia is talking about?
Bec Cartwright: Here we go.
Naomi Robson: That's a true sparkler, isn't it?
Bec Cartwright: It is indeed.
Naomi Robson: A very lucky girl.
Bec Cartwright: Yes.
Naomi Robson: Lleyton, how did you do it? How did you get that ring?
Lleyton Hewitt: I don't know, I don't know. I took a couple of my mates in,
during the Australian Open actually, and Jo Altman,
who's my coach's fiance. I had to have one chick in there
to help me out a little bit. So I took her in there for a
bit of female's advice. I was still pretty nervous going
in there. It took my mind off going out there and having
to win some big tennis matches, anyway.
Naomi Robson: Did you know what you wanted when you went in there?
Lleyton Hewitt: Not really. I'd spoken to the people before and ordered a
few different kinds in. I had probably 10 to 20 just sitting
there in front of me, and I couldn't tell the difference
between any of them. So I had to just sit back there and
look at all these unbelievable rings and then try and choose
one of them.
Naomi Robson: Take us back to that Sunday of the finals and what was going
through your mind. You had a huge match ahead of you, but you
knew at the end of the day, I take it, that...
Lleyton Hewitt: Yes, pretty much I knew that it was going to probably happen
later that night. We had spoken about it before that, though,
in the couple of weeks leading into it. And I just felt like
the timing - everything just felt so right at the time, and
obviously, I said to her at the time I would've loved to have
had the Australian Open trophy with me as well, just to make
it that little bit more special. But at the end of the day
I won the biggest prize at the end of the day. So I lost the
tennis match, but got the girl of my dreams.
Bec Cartwright: Thank you.
Naomi Robson: Bec, you had spoken about it beforehand? You had discussed it?
Bec Cartwright: Yes, yeah. We just both knew that everything just felt so
right and everybody else around us, like our own family and
friends that see us together, they know that - like, nobody
was shocked by it at all. They just know that we are right
for each other and they just see how happy we are together.
Naomi Robson: But did you realise it was going to be that night?
Bec Cartwright: No. No. I didn't know it was going to actually be that night,
because he sort of put me off a little bit, and just, yeah,
didn't expect it at all. So, no, it happened after the match.
Naomi Robson: How did it happen?
Lleyton Hewitt: I don't know. I probably had about four or five bags of ice
all over my body, I think. I was in that much pain after the
match. So, no, we just went back.
Bec Cartwright: We just had to take the bags upstairs.
Lleyton Hewitt: Yes, we took the bags upstairs, and then, yeah, we sat down
on the couch and I just asked her.
Bec Cartwright: Went from there.
Lleyton Hewitt: Yes, I just said I had a little question for her.
Bec Cartwright: Had little tears.
Lleyton Hewitt: And that was it. Yes. So she was a little bit shocked, I think
purely because it happened so soon after one of my biggest
matches I ever had to play.
Bec Cartwright: And I wouldn't have possibly thought that he would have had
time to even have considered it in the middle of all that.
Naomi Robson: Did you really go down on bended knee?
Lleyton Hewitt: I couldn't. I couldn't bend anyway, you know. As I said,
I wasn't joking, I was limping downstairs afterwards.
So, no, I was in a little bit of pain that night, so that
definitely helped ease the pain, though.
Naomi Robson: How long did it take to you say, "yes"?
Bec Cartwright: Oh, I knew straight away, but I think I was just too busy
going "Oh, my God!" to actually say the word "yes". But he
knew I meant "yes" until it came out.
Naomi Robson: And were there tears on both sides?
Bec Cartwright: No, just me, I think.
Lleyton Hewitt: Yeah, I was more just laughing, sort of.
Bec Cartwright: Relieved, maybe?
Lleyton Hewitt: Yes, I was relieved. I was very relieved.
Naomi Robson: Were you nervous?
Lleyton Hewitt: Yes, I was nervous. I was probably more nervous for that than
actually going out there and playing my semi-final and final
of the Australian Open.
Naomi Robson: Who did you first break the news to?
Bec Cartwright: I called my mum and dad straightaway, but they were in bed.
But I don't think they would have minded getting woken up by
that news. They were pretty thrilled about it all.
Naomi Robson: Yeah. Did they haven an idea that you might be getting engaged?
Bec Cartwright: They knew that we both had decided that we wanted to spend
our lives together, but when it was going to happen or
anything like that, I don't think they had any idea either.
Naomi Robson: What had they said about it?
Bec Cartwright: Oh, they're just over the moon. They just know I'm so happy,
and I keep getting nice text messages from my mum and dad and
brother and sister sort of saying how happy they are and how
lovely he is, and they love seeing me so happy. And all my
friends have commented, like, everybody just knows how happy
we are together.
Naomi Robson: Now, take us back to the very start, when you first met, years
ago. Tell us about that.
Bec Cartwright: Five years ago we both played together in the Starlight Cup.
I didn't play, because I can't actually play tennis.
Lleyton Hewitt: No, she played well.
Bec Cartwright: Because I can't hit the ball. I ducked.
Lleyton Hewitt: No, no, no!
Bec Cartwright: And he was running up the back getting the ball.
Lleyton Hewitt: She was fine.
Bec Cartwright: And we've just kept in contact ever since. Like, I would just
sort of send him messages and congratulate him on his wins in
Wimbledon or anything like that. And then he actually ended
up congratulating me because he had heard about this Dancing
with the Stars thing that I was doing. He'd never seen any
episodes, but his mates said "Oh, Bec's doing this thing,"
so he gave me a congratulations message. And kind of,
I've said, "Thank you, and when he's in Sydney, to catch up,"
and we did.
Naomi Robson: When you first met each other, were you attracted to each other
then?
Bec Cartwright: We didn't think about it like that at all.
Lleyton Hewitt: No, not really.
Bec Cartwright: I just thought he was one of the nicest guys, like just
really easygoing and easy to get along with.
Naomi Robson: Because a lot changed in those five years, didn't it?
Bec Cartwright: Yes, yes.
Naomi Robson: Your career really took off. So did yours (to Lleyton).
Lleyton Hewitt: Yes.
Bec Cartwright: A lot has happened in that five years, actually.
Naomi Robson: And you just remained mates during that time?
Bec Cartwright: Yeah.
Lleyton Hewitt: Yeah, pretty much. We hadn't spoken that much. It was more
just, you know, she obviously sent text messages to me when
I'd won the US Open or Wimbledon or got No.1, stuff like that,
you know, more than anything it was just - obviously you get
a lot of text messages from friends and family at that stage,
and it was just like a friendship more than anything.
And it was just - it was good that we'd always kept in
contact anyway as friends. And as she said, I was in the
Masters Cup in Houston and one of my mates has said,
"Oh, Bec's in this final of this dancing show," and I said,
"What the hell is a dancing show?" I didn't have a clue.
I can't dance anyway. So...
Bec Cartwright: He so can.
Lleyton Hewitt: No. So I just sent her a text message saying, "Well done" and,
"Good luck for the final of this dancing show, whatever it is."
So then, yeah, then she wrote back and asked if we wanted to
catch up when I was in Sydney training in December, and, you
know, that's pretty much what happened.
Naomi Robson: When you got together for your first date, what was that like?
Lleyton Hewitt: Um, that was good.
Bec Cartwright: Yeah, we just went out to dinner.
Lleyton Hewitt: Yeah, we met at Wally Masur's house, actually.
Bec Cartwright: It actually didn't feel as though - he made it a lot easier,
a meeting point. And it wasn't awkward at all. Like, it didn't
seem as though we hadn't seen really each other for five years.
Like, we just sort of picked up where we left off sort of kind
of thing. It was good.
Naomi Robson: What was it like? What transpired? Because, obviously, you fell
in love pretty quickly.
Bec Cartwright: We did.
Lleyton Hewitt: Yeah, very much.
Bec Cartwright: From that first dinner, I think we pretty much saw each other
every day until he went to Adelaide, or went somewhere.
Lleyton Hewitt: Yeah, obviously with schedules and stuff as well. So at the
start we tried to see as much of each other as possible and
it was fortunate enough that I had a guy like Wally Masur
that I was able to train with in Sydney as well for a little
bit longer, so I ended coming back and spending New Year's
Eve here in Sydney as well with Bec, and I think from then
we both pretty much had a pretty good feeling about the whole
situation.
Bec Cartwright: Yeah.
Naomi Robson: So what are the things you most like to do together when you
spend time alone?
Bec Cartwright: Just hug him and not let go!
Lleyton Hewitt: I don't know. Like, it's very basic. Because I think our lives
are so much on the go that we actually just like chilling out
and watching TV or just being together more than anything.
Bec Cartwright: Yeah.
Lleyton Hewitt: Yeah, whether you go to the movies or just do casual things
because, you know, so much - tennis might be a demanding
sport physically and mentally on your body but her time
schedule is amazing what she's got to put up with and how
early she's got to get up and get home so late and on location
and, you know, and in the studio and all those sorts of things
and I didn't really realise all that as well, and how hard
she's really got to work to get where she's got. So I think
when we just get back to our pad or whatever, you just want
to chill out and put your feet up and enjoy each other's
company.
Bec Cartwright: Yeah.
Naomi Robson: You've really thought this out, haven't you? In two months,
you've come a long way.
Bec Cartwright: Yeah.
Lleyton Hewitt: Yeah, a fair bit. A lot of people would have been thinking,
talking about tennis stuff and that, probably a bit more.
But, it obviously didn't disrupt my concentration too much
in the last few weeks either, which is good.
Bec Cartwright: But we have pretty much covered everything. People probably
are thinking, "How are they going to see each other because
of their schedules?" But, not, we've pretty much got it all
covered. We'll work it out as we go.
Naomi Robson: There are some people who say, and there have been experts in
the papers, relationship experts, who say that it's too early
for you guys and you're too young and it's only been two months.
What do you say to that?
Lleyton Hewitt: They're probably single by themselves anyway.
Bec Cartwright: (laughs) Yeah!
Lleyton Hewitt: I don't know how it makes them experts but...
Bec Cartwright: Yeah, we just know. I remember asking my sister and friends
that are married, like, "How do you know when you've met the
right one?" I've been in relationships before and I've always
been happy and I'm an easygoing person so it's kind of,
I can see how, yeah, when you've been together for a while
you kind of, you just kind of get married, but, no it's
totally different. I get it now. I know when you've met the
right one.
Naomi Robson: Was it a surprise to you that you fell in love so quickly when
you got back together, when you met each other again? Did it
surprise you?
Lleyton Hewitt: Yeah, I think so. Probably more for me because I probably
didn't think I had a chance. So, it was definitely a little
bit of surprise, I think, but everything just, we just hit
it off so well, right at the start.
Bec Cartwright: Yep, from day one.
Lleyton Hewitt: Everything just felt so comfortable about talking to each
other about anything.
Bec Cartwright: Yep, yeah.
Lleyton Hewitt: It actually, it was a huge change for me, obviously, seeing
someone and talking about non-tennis stuff as well.
Whereas, she hadn't seen a tennis match. She didn't know any
tennis player. Like, I don't even know if she knew Roger
Federer or Andy Roddick or whoever.
Bec Cartwright: They could have been swimmers for all I knew!
Lleyton Hewitt: So for me, it was actually really refreshing not to go out
there and have to talk about - every second question I get
asked is, "How good is Roger Federer?" You know? I'm sick of
Roger Federer! I don't want to talk about old Rog. So it was
actually bloody good to go out to dinner and actually have
a normal conversation and actually learn a lot more about
what she does for a living as well. Obviously, she's
understanding a little bit more about tennis and sport the
last few weeks.
Bec Cartwright: Yeah, I’ve learned a lot about sport. I know about golf,
I know about cricket. A crash course on it all!
Naomi Robson: Lleyton, what is it that made you fall in love with Bec?
Lleyton Hewitt: She's, I think, the nicest person I've ever met. She really is.
She's not just nice and polite to me, it's to everybody,
absolutely everybody we come across. She's got the warmest
heart I've ever seen. She goes out there and she's willing
to do anything for anybody.
Naomi Robson: Bec?
Bec Cartwright: He's got to be the most amazing person I've ever met. He's
just so laid back and so calm and just looks after me so well.
He appreciates having me around, which is awesome. He's got a
great family and just would do anything for anyone
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