We can’t imagine the pain that Liam Neeson must still feel after having lost his wife, Natasha Richardson, in that shocking ski accident two years ago. He’s been rather private about the ordeal, handling his grief without the involvement of the press, but this week, for the first time, he’s opening up about his loss.
In the March issue of Esquire, Liam recounts the horrible day of Natasha’s accident and explained how he almost didn’t get to spend her precious last moments together. He explained:
“I walked into the emergency — it’s like seventy, eighty people, broken arms, black eyes, all that — and for the first time in years, nobody recognizes me. Not the nurses. The patients. No one… So I went outside. It’s freezing cold, and I thought, What am I gonna do? How am I going to get past the security?”
Luckily, a nurse who was on her smoke break finally did recognize Liam and escorted him to Natasha right away. It was there that a group of “young doctors” gave him the “worst” news of his life. Liam reveals that in order to escape the pain after her death, he threw himself into work. He added:
“It’s easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work. That’s effective. But that’s the weird thing about grief. You can’t prepare for it. You think you’re gonna cry and get it over with. You make those plans, but they never work…It hits you in the middle of the night — well, it hits me in the middle of the night. I’m out walking. I’m feeling quite content. And it’s like suddenly, boom. It’s like you’ve just done that in your chest.”
Poor man. He misses her so much – probably always will. It was really brave of him to come forward like this. Maybe talking about it more will help ease some of the pain.
Our thoughts are still with you, Liam, and your boys.
[Image via WENN.]
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