Since his dramatic entry into the world at 4.22kg, not-so-little Leslie-John Viliamu, aka LJ, has been at the centre of former Warriors star Sione Faumuina’s life in Rotorua.
“Here’s hoping he’s an athlete too,” says the doting dad, who is juggling fatherhood with speaking engagements and running a business.
He and wife Renay are also parents to daughters Ella, eight, Aiva, six, and son Kees, three, and the Match Fit star says it’s a life he thought was in “no way possible” back in his sporting heyday, when the pressures of his career caused drinking issues, relationship turmoil and mental illness.
Fortunately, Sione, 42, emerged from those dark times to find Renay, whom he married in 2018, but his dreams of building a big family seemed unrealistic as his wife…
