#335. - Lewis Moody EXCLUSIVE - England World Cup Winner Fighting Motor Neurone Disease
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 165 minutes
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Summary
Lewis Moody opens up about life after rugby, reflecting on the highs of captaining England to World Cup glory and the brutal physical and mental toll the sport took behind the scenes. From relentless injuries to the pressure of leading a national team, he shares how discipline, resilience and identity shaped both his playing career and the transition that followed.
He speaks about the reality of elite sport - the constant pain, the sacrifices away from family, and the struggle many athletes face when the career that defined them suddenly ends. Moody discusses rebuilding purpose after retirement, channeling the same drive that fueled his rugby career into business, media and charity work, while learning to adapt his competitive mindset to life beyond the pitch.
Fiercely committed and deeply reflective, Lewis reveals how leadership, adversity and accountability forged the person he is today - and why the lessons from rugby continue to shape everything he does.
He also speaks openly about his Motor Neurone Disease (MND) diagnosis, sharing how the progressive condition has changed daily life while highlighting the resilience and mindset he’s using to face it - focusing on staying positive, adapting to the challenges, and continuing to support awareness for MND within the rugby community.
This is the eventful life of Lewis Moody.
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| 0:00.0 | Those emotions are always close to the surface, right? |
| 0:02.2 | Lewis Moody, yeah, highlights real. |
| 0:03.8 | The first thing that comes up is that fucking fight with Alec. |
| 0:07.0 | So basically I became the first Englishman in a hundred, roughly 100 years to be sent off. |
| 0:11.8 | It's one of those moments in your life where you realise you're either going to sink or swim. |
| 0:15.6 | You know, with great success comes huge disappointment, failure. |
| 0:19.5 | And failure and success are totally entwined in sport, |
| 0:22.8 | and you normalise pressure. People kept talking to me when I got diagnosed with M&D about sort of |
| 0:27.1 | bucket lists. I was like, I don't need a bucket list. I've done a lot of enjoyment. Like I will |
| 0:32.0 | continue to do a lot of enjoyment. I'll continue to do a lot of living. How would you explain |
| 0:35.5 | motor neurone disease? It kills your motor neurons, which eventually, you know, kills your muscles. So your muscles gradually waste away. I choose to do more of the things that I love. I don't know how long I'll get to do that for. I'm trying to process it all. We're trying to work through it. But I know it's going to be okay. I know it's going to be okay. I know it's going to be hard. And this is the difficult thing, right? |
| 0:57.6 | It's like... it but I know it's going to be okay I know it's going to be okay I know it's going to be hard and this is |
| 0:56.1 | the difficult thing right |
| 0:57.6 | it's like |
| 0:58.1 | I'm going to lose you one day |
| 1:00.5 | I don't want that |
| 1:03.5 | yeah |
| 1:04.1 | every minute of this I absolutely loved |
| 1:07.2 | I could go another two or three hours |
| 1:08.5 | doing this |
| 1:09.2 | you're going to cry again |
| 1:09.9 | no |
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