Goop guru Gwyneth Paltrow returned to court in Utah today as her trial for a ski accident entered its fourth day.
Despite the blizzard conditions in Park City, the A-lister arrived wearing a pair of $248 mirrored Rayban aviator sunglasses that she paired with a navy longcoat, navy dress, and a black pair of Celine boots. of $1,200.
The actress, 50, will take the stand today to give her account of the February 2016 skiing accident that allegedly left retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76, with four broken ribs and permanent brain damage.
Paltrow denies crashing into the retiree and countersued, saying he was the one who crashed her skiing down a beginner’s slope at Flagstaff Mountain, leaving her angry and hurt.
Sanderson will also take the stand today and the court will also hear the second half of testimony from Florida neurologist Dr. Richard Boehme MD and Sanderson’s daughter, Shae Herath.
Gwyneth Paltrow returned to court in Utah on Friday for the fourth day of her ski accident trial. The 50-year-old actress will take the stand today to give her account of the February 2016 accident that injured retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76.
Despite the blizzard conditions in Park City, the A-lister arrived wearing a pair of $248 mirrored Rayban aviator sunglasses that she paired with a navy longcoat, navy dress, and a black pair of Celine boots. of $1,200.
Sanderson alleges that he was left with four broken ribs and permanent brain damage. Paltrow denies running into her retiree and countersued, saying he was the one who dodged into her, leaving her angry and hurt.
Friday’s proceedings began with cross-examination by Dr. Boehme, who insisted that the only explanation for Sanderson’s broken ribs was that Paltrow struck him from the left and landed on him.
Dr. Boehme, who drew his conclusions from a document review and a clinical session when Sanderson, said he had considered an alternative, that Sanderson punched Paltrow, but thought her injuries could not have been caused that way.
He also dismissed suggestions that Sanderson was “faking it” or exaggerating the extent of his injuries.
Sanderson’s legal team then called Mark Herath, a FedEx pilot and brother-in-law to his daughter Shae.
Herath said the couple had been close before the accident but grew apart afterward due to changes in Sanderson’s personality.
He told the court that he had been surprised after being told the day after the accident that Paltrow had skied away after allegedly hitting Sanderson, saying: “He said he heard a scream and he was hit from behind, he hit the snow and he was knocked unconscious and had to be carried off the mountain.
He said that Gwyneth Paltrow hit him and she left the scene of the accident, that surprised me. Because my college roommate, his mom got beaten up, and the kid tried to run away and was chased down the mountain. That was in Colorado.
It’s a hit and run. It is a felony. It’s something you just don’t do.
He said that Sanderson had become increasingly confused after the accident and stopped skiing afterwards.
Herath said: ‘It was like night and day from before and after the accident. He hasn’t skied since the accident.
I talked to him the first year after the skiing accident, but it was clear it was a dead end. He was not mentally prepared to ski again.
He added: “It’s not nice to be around Terry like it used to be because he’s so confused, he’s paranoid, he’s anxious around people.” Now you can only take Terry in small doses.
Sanderson’s legal team then called Mark Herath, a FedEx pilot and brother-in-law to his daughter Shae. Herath said the pair had been close before the accident but grew apart afterward due to changes in Sanderson’s personality.
Sanderson’s daughter, Shae Herath, told jurors that her father no longer “trusts his brain” after the accident and the injuries he received.
Paltrow is accused in a lawsuit of crashing into a Sanderson during a family ski vacation in 2016
Later, Sanderson’s daughter, Shae Herath, told jurors that her father no longer “trusts his brain” after the accident and the injuries he received.
Shae, who appeared visibly nervous on the dais and spoke in a sometimes shaky voice, said: “My father has quite a few personality problems, the injury to his brain has caused significant damage, enough to cause personality changes.”
‘My dad is very insecure, he doesn’t show it but he no longer trusts his brain. He used to be able to multitask and do all kinds of tasks and now he can’t keep up.
“As your daughter, I feel that your life is exhausting.”
Yesterday, the trial heard from another of Sanderson’s daughters, Polly Grasham, 49, who said her father had been drastically changed by the accident.
Grasham said: ‘It’s really tricky at the moment, it’s really difficult. I think she’s in a really negative place and that’s hard for me as a daughter.
“It’s like the main sentence is gone and all we have are the little details – part of the frustration is that you get caught up in the little details and the main focus is gone.”
‘I have to close the circle. I think she gets frustrated and angry. Now it’s very A to B, don’t add a C or a D. I understand there’s a lot of pain and loss from the way your life worked before, it doesn’t work that way now.’
Before the accident, Grasham said, his father had a “menary mind,” was a good problem solver and loved spending time with his granddaughters Hope, 25, and Anne, 22.
Yesterday, the trial heard from another of Sanderson’s daughters, Polly Grasham, 49, who said her father had been drastically changed by the accident.
‘[He was] really fun loving, outgoing, very quick with a joke and a smile.
‘My dad was smart. He used to describe it as a Mensa mind. Quick to figure things out.
She said she was informed of the accident the day it happened and knew he was receiving medical treatment, but only realized the extent of his injuries when he arrived in Idaho in late May 2016 for Hope’s graduation.
Grasham said: “There was a time when I was sitting in a chair by my window and I half expected drool to come out of his mouth.”
“She hadn’t committed to anyone and had gone off to a remote corner, that’s when I first felt something was terribly wrong.”
He also said that Sanderson had grown increasingly angry and “mean” in the aftermath of the accident, in contrast to his previous behavior.
Grasham said the symptoms worsened in the first 18 months after the accident and have improved somewhat since then, but he said he still has problems with multitasking and disorientation.