Sonny Bill Williams, who now excels at pretty much anything he tries to do, spent four months in hospital on a wheelchair when he was 6 years old due to severe burns on his legs.
The All Blacks player revealed this and other interesting facts about his life to Eru, an 11-year-old Starship patient, who's been at the hospital receiving specialist treatment for rheumatic fever.
"Just like you, I was in a wheelchair," he told Eru, recalling playing games of soft touch and tackle rugby on the wheelchair with other patients. "It was a tough time at that stage in my life," he said, but adds he has some good memories from it too.
Eru interviewed Sonny Bill for a special episode of the "Inside Starship" series and, before getting him to sign his Blues rugby ball, he asked some seriously good questions.
He found out that, much like himself - and possibly the average Kiwi kid - SBW as a child was good at "eating and being naughty".
