Carrie Bickmore breaks down as Beanies 4 Brain Cancer cracks $1 million goal

CARRIE Bickmore broke down on The Project as she announced she’s achieved a goal close to her heart.

CARRIE Bickmore broke down on Monday night’s edition of The Project as she announced her Beanies 4 Brain Cancer initiative has cracked its one-million-dollar goal.

The 35-year-old launched the project, which raises money for brain cancer research, during her 2015 Gold Logie acceptance speech, and in just over a year she’s exceeded her target.

“We had Brain Beats concert, which was a great success. The last few months, we’ve been selling beanies — I completely underestimated how many people would want the beanies and I under-ordered, so I’m so sorry if you didn’t get a beanie — next time we’ll order three times as many,” she said. “Because of your generosity, we have already reached our million dollars — $1.1 million. So, thank you, thank you, thank you. I am just so blown away about that.”

Bickmore shares the good news for Beanies 4 Brain Cancer.

“To each and every one of you who have bought a beanie, seeing all the pics coming up on social media, families and babies and kids and, you know, I don’t know any of you, but I feel like I know you all,” she added.

Panellist Peter Helliar said his colleague has worked tirelessly to achieve what she set out to.

“What people should know about what Carrie has done is how hands-on you have been,” he said. “I sit next to you in our office, and you didn’t just pass it off to another team to do it. I’ve heard you have discussions with your web guy, customs, truckies, people packing the orders, manufacturers.”

Bickmore became emotional as she spoke about her late husband Greg Lange, who died of brain cancer in 2005 and who she started the project for.

“The image we’re about to see now — that is of my late husband, Greg. And he is the reason that I did this all, and I want to say to anybody who is suffering from brain cancer right now, we will use this money, and we will use it to try and make your future brighter, so that is what I promise you we’ll do.”

If you’d like to donate to Carrie’s cause, visit Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer.

Bickmore gets emotional during her announcement.