These are difficult times for Gwyneth Paltrow, who this Tuesday had to appear before the Park City District Court (Utah) for a skiing accident in which she was involved in 2016. The Oscar winner for Shakespeare in love has given his version of the facts to judge Judge Kent R. Holmberg in the first session of a trial that is expected to last eight days and in which Terry Sanderson, a retired optometrist, claims nearly 300,000 euros for injuries suffered on the slopes of Deer Valley Resort when colliding with the actress.
In the first session of the trial, to which the interpreter arrived wearing a long green coat, sunglasses, and an ecru turtleneck, Stephen Owens, Gwyneth's lawyer, explained that in the coming days the husband of the actress, Brad Falchuk, and her two children, Apple and Moses, both born from her relationship with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. The lawyer has also explained that the getaway to the snow had a lot of meaning for the actress and that it was the first time that she skied after the death 2002 of her father and she wanted her children to learn this sport. The children of her husband were also present at that getaway.
January 1st. In 2019, three years after the incident, Sanderson sued Paltrow for rear-ending him while skiing in a beginner's area. Initially, he asked for three million dollars (2.79 million euros), but the figure has been decreasing. According to his words, the actress hit him and ran away after hitting him in the back. He maintains that he got up, turned, and left leaving him lying in the snow "severely injured" with "a permanent traumatic brain injury and four broken ribs". This incident has caused him "pain, depression, loss of enjoyment of life, anguish emotional and disfigurement. In addition, he maintains that there was an instructor as a witness who had presented a false report in favor of the actress.
The interpreter's counterclaim
A month after receiving the civil lawsuit, the protagonist of titles such as Iron Man, The Politician, and The Avengers filed a countersuit denying the accusations and explaining that it was Sanderson who hit her from behind while they were skiing and apologized to her but now tries to exploit their popularity and money. "She didn't knock him down. He knocked her down. He wasn't knocked out. Mrs. Paltrow was skiing carefully. She skied slowly to stay behind her sons, who were getting ski instruction a little further down the mountain," one could read. read in the brief filed by his legal team.
