‘Emotional’ Cameron Munster reveals tragic baby news

Cameron Munster’s Melbourne Storm are minor premiers again but the star five-eighth has opened up on twin family tragedies.

Cameron Munster is one of the NRL’s biggest names but the Melbourne Storm star has opened up on his personal pain ahead of the first week of the finals.

With the Storm set to play the Manly Sea Eagles on the Sunshine Coast on Friday night, Munster is in doubt to make the field for the match with an infected knee would that needed to be cleaned out last week.

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Having played 18 of the team’s 24 matches this season, the team has won all the games the five-eighth has missed with the likes of Nicho Hynes and Jahrome Hughes steering the ship in his absence.

While the Storm won the minor premiership with just three losses this year despite having lost the services of Cameron Smith who retired at the end of last year, it hasn’t all been easy for Munster as the big kahuna in Melbourne.

Munster missed the last four weeks before Origin I with a foot injury that left him saying he would be “touch and go” for the game.

While Queensland were towel up in the first two Origin games, they bounced back in game three to save face before pushing the Storm into the minor premiership with a record-equalling 19 straight wins.

Cameron Munster in action for the Storm.

He has also been criticised for lashing out with kicks this season including in Origin game I, which saw him fined by the NRL.

But speaking to 9News, Munster revealed that he and his partner Bianca McMahon had been battling a pair of family tragedies this season.

“My partner lost her mum five months ago and before that, we had a miscarriage as well,” he said.

“It’s been an emotional rollercoaster for the family. A bit of disbelief, to be honest, I didn’t think it happened.”

McMahon’s mother Maria passed away earlier in the year after a battle with cancer.

Bianca posted a touching family photo at the time with the caption “always and forever”.

She’d regularly honoured her mum on her Instagram page, describing her as “her rock” and labelling her and her pilot brother Shane as “easily the luckiest kids in the world”.

Munster responded to Maria’s battle by becoming an ambassador for Ovarian Cancer Australia, according to a Courier Mail report at the time.

Cameron Munster and Bianca McMahon are expecting. Photo: Instagram

However, on the good news front for the superstar five-eighth, Munster revealed in July that his partner was pregnant again, with the baby due in December.

“It’s a scary thought, I can barely look after myself,” he said of the baby on the way.

“It’s going to be a nice change for myself. It will make me change all the things in my life and it’s probably for the better.”

Munster, who is off-contract at the end of next season, also spoke about potentially moving away from the Storm in order to keep the team’s next generation of talent.

The club already had to part ways with Hynes after his breakout season, and Munster has been linked with a move to the proposed 17th team in Queensland where he would reunite with 2020 Origin coach Wayne Bennett.

“If they want to keep those young players, I will have to move away,” he said of a potential move.

“I’m very lucky and fortunate that I lived in Melbourne during my time when I was a bit of an animal kid, I would have been in the papers a fair bit.”

Cameron Munster is looking for back-to-back premierships. Photo by Handout/NRL Photos via Getty Images

As for this weekend, Munster said he was a “50-50” proposition to make the field.

“It’s a 50-50 call between me the coaching staff and (the medical staff),” Munster told SEN.

“We could win, open it up, have the week off and who knows, I could be back to square one.

“But if I play, open it up and we lose and then I’ve got to try back up the following week.”

Originally published as ‘Emotional’ Cameron Munster reveals tragic baby news