Kim Clijsters and her father Lei were inseparable for many years during Kim’s tennis career. Kim now admits she kept in touch with her father even after his death
Lei Clijsters was barely 52 when he died on 4 January 2009 after a lingering illness. For daughter Kim, the death of her father was a heavy blow
“Dad was everything to me. It’s hard for me to explain, but he always knew exactly what to do perfectly,” Kim Clijsters told reporters after her dad’s death. “And I miss that now.” And then Kim suddenly made a striking confession
Both father and daughter had the deep belief that contact would still be possible between the two of them after his death. “We talked a lot about that in his last weeks,” she says. And that contact did come about, the former tennis star reveals.
“And that came true. Even after his death, dad still sends me signs,” Kim Clijsters told a candid interview on Belgian TV programme ‘Characters’ five years after her father’s death.
