Beaconsfield miner Brant Webb shares shock revelation about his relationship with fellow survivor Todd Russell

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Beaconsfield mine survivor Brant Webb has revealed a shock confession that the public’s view of him and his relationship with Todd Russell may be far from reality. Russell, who…

Beaconsfield mine survivor Brant Webb has revealed a shock confession that the public’s view of him and his relationship with Todd Russell may be far from reality.

Russell, who died from cancer this week aged 54, was trapped with Webb for 14 days when a small earthquake triggered a rockfall just north of Launceston in Tasmania.

Footage of the pair emerging alive and triumphant at the surface made headlines around the world.

Following Russell’s death, Webb praised his colleague’s fighting spirit and shared how “he did so much for the community” after they were freed.

But in a brutally honest new interview, Webb conceded the pair shared a complicated relationship.

Webb told the outlet he felt like he had been “keeping a secret for a bloke that didn’t respect me”.

“The only thing we had in common was we stayed in a hole for two weeks together,” Webb told TV Blackbox.

“Todd was Todd, you know. Even when we did the book, his mother said he was the most arrogant person she ever met.”

When asked if he liked the man he is forever linked with by the disaster, Webb said: “No, not really.”

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