‘I didn’t want what happened to Lee to define Jack’s life’: Lee Rigby’s wife speaks out as son wins Pride of Britain Award

Lee Rigby's son Jack wins Pride of Britain award.Credit: Good Morning Britain, ITV

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00:00 I've always said I didn't want what happened to Lee to define Jack's life

00:03 and I wanted him to live the childhood that he deserved to live

00:08 and I wanted him to go on and do something good.

00:12 I never dreamed that obviously it'd raise this amount of money for charity

00:15 and I think as it racked up in the early days,

00:18 we were absolutely astonished at the amount that you were raising.

00:22 250 pounds was quite a lot initially.

00:24 Well, when I set the page up and it kind of automatically defaulted at 250

00:30 and Jack said, "Oh, Mum, that's a lot. I'm not going to raise 250 pounds."

00:35 And then we smashed that target and I then amended it to 1,000.

00:39 He was like, "Oh, no, never, never.

00:41 "We hit the 250, we're not going to hit the 1,000."

00:43 And then when we hit the 1,000, he went,

00:45 "We'll go for 1,000 pounds for every year, 10,000 pounds.

00:50 "We're not going to hit it though, but we'll try."

00:53 And yeah, it just kept going, didn't it?