The family of late West Coast great Chris Mainwaring will scatter his ashes a decade after his shock death and will then remember their champion with a private memorial.

Mainwaring, an Eagles superstar and later a prominent Perth television identity, was found dead aged 41 on October 1, 2007. A coroner's report found that he had died after a seizure caused by a cocaine overdose.

His wife Rani — in an exclusive interview for Channel 7’s Today Tonight alongside their children Maddy, 18, and Zac, 16 — revealed the anniversary of his death was the right time to scatter his ashes. And she would celebrate with his drink of choice.

“It just hasn’t been the right time,” Mrs Mainwaring said. “We’re going to do the ashes privately and then I’m sure we’ll have a couple of double bourbons somewhere.”

Camera Icon Chris and Rani with their children Maddy and Zac. Credit: Supplied

Mrs Mainwaring said she had been “open and honest” with her children surrounding details of her husband’s death.

Maddy remembered locking herself in a room after being told her dad was gone.

“I didn’t really want to believe it and just kept thinking he was going to come back,” she said, adding her mum had been her “rock”.

“It was like, ‘This is all a dream, it’s going to be over, he’s going to come back and it’s all going to be fine’. It’s not something you should have to cope with, but we did.

“(He) was a hero, an inspiration, a beautiful person.”

Camera Icon Mainy with his two young children. Credit: Supplied

Zac, not surprisingly a budding footballer, said he often copped comments on the football field about being the son of a legend, but often shied away from the subject.

“It (footy) is good because sometimes it does get my mind off not having dad there,” Zac, also a keen golfer, said. “I miss him a lot when I see other dads with their sons. I remember him as a really good dad and hopefully I can follow on in his footsteps and be like he was.”

Mrs Mainwaring recalled the “totally traumatic” day her husband died, but would always remember a genuine, humorous and sometimes goofy and devoted father who was universally known as “Mainy”.

Camera Icon Chris Mainwaring with his daughter Maddy. Credit: Supplied

“The shock was just horrendous ... the worst day of my life,” she said.

“To face all of that trauma publicly was just horrible. Sometimes it feels like it’s forever ago and other days it feels like it was just yesterday.

“Ten years down the track I still miss him terribly and there is no day that goes past without me thinking of him.”