Married at First Sight’s Stacey Hampton shares photos of sons dressed in black for father’s funeral

Stacey Hampton has shared moving images of her young sons bravely facing their father’s funeral.

Senior rebel boss Shane Smith, 38, was killed in a motorcycle accident in northeastern Adelaide earlier this month.

The father of four died at the scene, despite paramedics’ desperate efforts to resuscitate him.

Married at First Sight star Stacey, 28, shares the two boys – Kruz and Kosta – with Smith.

In the images, posted on Instagram on Monday, Stacey and her sons were each wearing black outfits.

Despite the tragic circumstances, the little boys managed to share a warm moment with their mother.

“Proudest mom,” Stacey wrote in the caption next to the images, as well as adding a white love heart and praying hands emoji.

She was inundated with support from her fans, with one writing, ‘I’m thinking of you all today’, while another wrote, ‘Sending lots of love to you Stacey’.

Another said: ‘I send you all lots of love and light… I really hope the boys are well and you’.

“It was kind of like, how dare you do that to me, so I’m going to do that to you,” she said.

The former reality star recently paid a heartbreaking tribute to her cycling ex and greeted the father of her two sons as a wonderful father with a heart of gold.

It’s the latest in a string of tragedies to hit Hampton after her father took his own life and her brother’s tragic death – also in a motorcycle accident – on the day she was due to give birth.

Hampton was in a relationship with Smith from age 19 until their breakup in July 2017, a month before he was convicted of beating up two nightclub bouncers.

The Rebel Adelaide president was also the father of her two young boys Kruz and Kosta and had her name tattooed on his hand.

Hampton had been on good terms with Smith since their divorce five years ago.

“He is now at peace with his brother, mother and friends,” Hampton told Nine News.

“He was a great father. He adored his children and his parents. Our hearts are broken and our lives will never be the same.

“He had a heart of gold and loved his family and friends.”

Smith described himself on his Facebook profile as “straight up (and) loyal to those who are loyal to me.” He also said, “One club, one life, family is everything.”

His distraught sister was one of those who laid flowers on the Redwood Park scene.

Smith’s passenger, a 45-year-old man who was on the back of the bicycle, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

In 2020, she defended Smith and urged society not to judge her ex on his criminal past.

“He’s really the best person, and I think he’s ashamed of his past,” she said in a magazine interview.

“I met him when I was very young, 19, through mutual friends, and I wasn’t aware of his lifestyle, but I fell for him so quickly,” she continued.

“At the time, I didn’t realize he actually had charges from ages ago that had come up, assault.”

Stacey, who is 11 years younger than Smith, told Daily Mail Australia in 2020 that the pair had a tumultuous bond.

“Shane and I met very young, I fell hard and fast and we will always be each other’s kryptonite,” she said.

“He was always very supportive and I had terrible postpartum depression, which is what drives my charity.

“He took the kids when I wasn’t able to get them. I had to recover myself and I was alone. He was great to me.

“He still supports me and my decisions emotionally, helps me with relationship advice and also ensures my and my children’s happiness.

“We still share children’s birthdays and have lunch. We just can’t be together because we’re fighting, and we both have a lot of damage from our past, clashing.

“It was a civil rift. He’s a great father and I don’t regret it.’

Hampton shared her struggles with being a young mother while Smith was behind bars in an earlier interview with Daily Mail Australia.

“I got pregnant at age 20 and gave birth at age 21 while my partner was in prison,” she says.

“I had to be hospitalized with shingles from stress, and then I got Bell’s palsy from stress while I was heavily pregnant.”

In February 2019, Smith was convicted and fined $3,500 for assaulting two bouncers outside a Bendigo nightclub on August 6, 2017.

He narrowly avoided jail after a magistrate dismissed a charge of assault because the brutal beatings were not considered inciting terror on bystanders.

Stacey rose to fame in season seven of Married At First Sight Australia in 2020, where she was paired up with Michael Goonan, but they broke up before the reunion episode.