Time.news – Gwyneth Paltrow has taken the dock after being sued by Terry Sanderson, a 76-year-old retired optometrist who accuses her of having run over him on the ski slopes, in 2016, in one of the most exclusive winter resorts in the United States , Utah. The man claims he was knocked out and seriously injured after the actress crashed into him on a slope at Park City’s Deer Valley Resort. The doctor sued her three years later, in 2019, claiming she had suffered a “permanent traumatic brain injury and four broken ribs” as well as pain, suffering, emotional stress. He initially asked for compensation of over 3 million dollars, now he has reduced it to 300 thousand. The “Shakespeare in Love” actress has in turn appeared in court for a symbolic sum of 1 dollar plus legal costs.
“Mr. Sanderson adamantly hit me on that ski slope, and that’s the truth“, Paltrow said, subjected to cross-examination by Sanderson’s lawyer. “When it slipped between my skis – she added -, I immediately froze”. with now husband Brad Falchuk and Moses and Apple, her two sons with former Coldplay singer Chris Martin. All three are expected to testify at trial. Sanderson’s lawyers say Paltrow fled the scene of the crash, but l The actress claims she only walked away after her ski instructor, Eric Christiansen, told her she could.”Mr. Christiansen stayed and filled out the report, made sure Mr. Sanderson was okay and he told me: ‘You can go on'”.