Goop guru Gwyneth Paltrow was back in court in Utah today as her trial over a ski slope smash entered its fourth day.
Despite blizzard conditions in Park City, the A-lister arrived wearing a $248 pair of mirrored Rayban aviator sunglasses which she paired with a long navy coat, a navy blue dress and a black pair of $1,200 Celine boots.
The actress, 50, is scheduled to take the stand today to give her account of the February 2016 ski crash that allegedly left retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76, with four broken ribs and a permanent brain injury.
Paltrow denies crashing into the retiree and countersued, saying he was the one who skied into her on a beginner slope on Flagstaff Mountain – leaving her angry and sore.
Sanderson is also set to take the stand today and the court will also hear the second half of testimony by Florida neurologist Dr. Richard Boehme MD and from Sanderson’s daughter Shae Herath.
Gwyneth Paltrow was back in court in Utah Friday for the fourth day of her ski crash trial. The actress, 50, is scheduled to take the stand today to give her account of the February 2016 crash that injured retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76
Despite blizzard conditions in Park City, the A-lister arrived wearing a $248 pair of mirrored Rayban aviator sunglasses which she paired with a long navy coat, a navy blue dress and a black pair of $1,200 Celine boots
Sanderson alleges he was left with four broken ribs and a permanent brain injury. Paltrow denies crashing into the retiree and countersued, saying he was the one who skied into her – leaving her angry and sore
Yesterday, the trial heard from another of Sanderson’s daughters, Polly Grasham, 49, who said her father had been left dramatically changed by the crash.
Grasham said: ‘It’s really messy right now, it’s really hard. I think he’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 he gets caught up in little details and the primary focus is gone.
‘I have to bring it full circle. I think he gets frustrated and angry. Now it’s very A to B, don’t throw in a C or a D. I understand there is a lot of grief and loss for the way his life functioned before, it doesn’t function like that now.’
Prior to the crash, Grasham said, her father had a ‘Mensa mind’, was good at troubleshooting and loved to spend time with granddaughters Hope, 25, and Anne, 22.
‘[He was] just really fun-loving, gregarious, really quick with a joke and a smile.
‘My dad was smart. I used to describe him as a Mensa mind. Quick to figure things out.’
She said she was told of the crash on the day it happened and knew he was getting medical treatment but only realized the extent of his injuries when he came to Idaho at the end of May 2016 for Hope’s graduation.
On Thursday Paltrow looked away as her lawyer got involved in a heated exchange with the daughter of the skier she is accused of colliding with in 2016
Yesterday, the trial heard from another of Sanderson’s daughters, Polly Grasham, 49, who said her father had been left dramatically changed by the crash
Grasham said: ‘There was a time when he was sitting in a chair by my window and I almost expected drool to be coming out of his mouth. ‘He hadn’t engaged with anybody and had taken himself off to a remote corner – that was when I first felt something was terribly wrong.’
She also said Sanderson had become increasingly angry and ‘petty’ in the wake of the crash – in contrast to his previous behavior.
Grasham said the symptoms were worst in the first 18 months after the crash and have improved a little since but said he still struggles with multitasking and disorientation.
Thursday also saw testimony from Dr. Boehme who said Sanderson’s rib fractures could only have been caused by being hit from behind and then landed on by Paltrow.
Dr. Boehme, who drew his conclusions from a review of documents and a clinical session when Sanderson, said he had considered alternative – that Sanderson hit Paltrow – but thought his injuries could not have been caused that way.
He also dismissed suggestions that Sanderson was ‘malingering’ or exaggerating the extent of his injuries.
