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See Gwyneth Paltrow Attend Utah Courtroom Amid Ski Crash Trial
Gwyneth Paltrow is taking the basal successful her ski clang trial.
The Oscar victor testified successful beforehand of Park City, Utah assemblage connected March 24 as portion of a lawsuit implicit an alleged 2016 hit-and-run incident connected a slope astatine the Deer Valley Resort. Clad in a acheronian ensemble, Paltrow—who is being accused of skiing into retired optometrist Terry Sanderson and leaving the scene—denied causing the collision and injuries to the 76-year-old.
During her testimony, Paltrow said that erstwhile Sanderson allegedly crashed into her, she concisely thought it was a intersexual assault.
"What made you deliberation it was a intersexual assault?" his lawyer asked.
"So, that was a speedy thought that went done my caput erstwhile I was trying to reconcile what was happening," the 50-year-old testified. "Two skis came betwixt my skis, forcing my legs apart, and past determination was a assemblage pressing against maine and determination was a precise unusual grunting noise."
She continued, "So my encephalon was trying to marque consciousness of what was happening. I thought, 'Is this a applicable joke? Is someone, like, doing thing perverted? This is truly really strange.' My caput was going precise very rapidly and I was trying to ascertain what was happening."
Paltrow clarified that she is not accusing him of intersexual assault.
Sanderson filed his lawsuit against Paltrow successful 2019, alleging successful his ailment that she was skiing recklessly down a beginner-level slope erstwhile they collided. In tribunal documents obtained by E! News, Sanderson claimed helium sustained "a encephalon injury, 4 breached ribs and different injuries," arsenic good arsenic "severe intelligence problems including fear, anxiousness and depression," arsenic a effect of the incident.
In a countersuit, Paltrow alleged that Sanderson was the 1 who skied into her and "blamed her for it successful an effort to exploit her personage and wealth."
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"She was enjoying skiing with her household connected abrogation successful Utah, erstwhile Plaintiff—who was uphill from Ms. Paltrow—plowed into her back," the actress' filing read. "She sustained a afloat 'body blow.' Ms. Paltrow was aggravated with Plaintiff, and said so. Plaintiff apologized. She was shaken and upset, and discontinue skiing for the time adjacent though it was inactive morning."
Sanderson is suing Paltrow for $300,000, an magnitude antecedently reduced from his archetypal petition of $3.1 million, per NBC News. Meanwhile, Paltrow is countersuing Sanderson for "only symbolic damages successful the magnitude of $1, positive her costs and attorneys' fees to support this meritless claim," according to tribunal documents.
During the grounds connected March 24, Paltrow said she was not antecedently alert of Taylor Swift's anterior countersuit for an battle and artillery case, in which the vocalist was granted a symbolic $1.
"I would not accidental we're bully friends," Paltrow said. "We are friendly. I've taken my kids to concerts before."
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Paltrow's husband Brad Falchuk and kids Apple, 18, and Moses, 16—who she shares with ex Chris Martin—are besides expected to instrumentality the basal successful the trial. Falchuk, who tied the knot with the Goop mogul successful 2018, and the children were a portion of the skis abrogation during which the clang occurred.
"This was truly their archetypal travel to benignant of a person a mixed, see-if-this-might-work [family]," Paltrow's lawyer Stephen Owens told the assemblage connected March 21. "So it was a peculiar clip and it was a beauteous day."
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For free, confidential help, telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-4673 oregon sojourn rainn.org.
