Actress Badly Injured Skiing

[Downbound Train]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090317/...sha_richardson

Anyone know what happened??

Sounds pretty bad.........

[robgoose]

From the New York Times:


Lyne Lortie, a spokeswoman for the Mont Tremblant ski resort in the Laurentian Hills north of Montreal, said Ms. Richardson had fallen during a beginner’s lesson. She was not wearing a helmet at the time, she said.

“It was a normal fall; she didn’t hit anyone or anything,” Ms. Lortie said. “She didn’t show any signs of injury, she was talking and she seemed all right.”

As a precaution, Ms. Richardson was accompanied by a member of the resort’s ski patrol and her instructor, who then remained with her at a hotel.

When Ms. Richardson, 45, began experiencing headaches about an hour later, she was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Ste. Agathe, Quebec about 20 minutes from the resort. Ms. Lortie said that Ms. Richardson was transferred to the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal later in the afternoon.

Ms. Lortie said that the resort has no knowledge about Ms. Richardson’s injuries.

[Downbound Train]

Freaky. I guess, based on the situation, there were no maggot eye witnesses.

[gravityluv]

Wish her a full recovery.
"She was not wearing a helmet"....
You only need to have a helmet work once for it to be the right choice. Wear a helmet.

[Crystal_Mt_Dreamin]

She actually passed away from what I read. RIP if true. Freaky, fluke shit.

[karpiel]

She actually passed away from what I read. RIP if true. Freaky, fluke shit.

Some reports were saying brain dead, now a couple are saying shes not even brain dead.

Most are saying brain dead and will die.




Freaky.

[Gebster]

Patrol tells her to go the hospital and she proceeds to sit on her a$$ at the hotel for the next hour, WTF?

[VanPatrol]

Must be a slow bleed from the fall, hope she pulls through.

[Little Big Lost]

Something doesn't add up, at least to me. Normal fall? What is that? Ski Patrol and Instructor accompanied her back to her room? Why do that for a normal fall? Seems odd. It must have been more than just a "normal" fall.

A flat place late in the season might = hard as a rock. Bounced her head me thinks. We have all seen places where the snow has turned to cement.

If that isn't what happened.... then this is very hard to explain...perhaps a pre-existing condition?

[Viva]

It was reported early this morning that she yacked a tree. That would explain the head injury.

[Making a Pizza]

Noooo! not the lady from the parent trap =( I like her.

[Downbound Train]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172009...ead_160027.htm

New York Post reports....Brain Dead. Unreal.

[Steven S. Dallas]

TMZ says medically induced coma. I'm actually more inclined to trust the celeb gossip websites for shit like this. Weird to be sure.

Vibes to Liam Neeson, even though "Taken" was a total piece of crap.

[L7]

This afternoon on CBC I heard an initial report of the critical injury and changing of hospital. Then at the end the newscaster gave the old 'this just in' and stated reports now say the injuries aren't very serious.

[grubbers]

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2...t.html?ref=rss

[Dhelihiker]

The medical condition of actress Natasha Richardson — who fell Monday during a ski lesson at a Quebec resort — was being described Tuesday as anywhere from minor to life-threatening.

Friends of the British actress said she was "brain dead," according to the New York Post.

Early reports from People.com and IrishCentral.com said Richardson — a member of an esteemed British acting dynasty — suffered a serious head injury. Some Hollywood "insider" websites suggest Richardson has swelling of the brain.

Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the Mont Tremblant ski resort said Richardson suffered what initially appeared to be a relatively unspectacular fall.

Montreal's Sacré-Coeur hospital confirmed that Richardson had left the facility on Tuesday, but a hospital spokeswoman declined to comment on the extent of her injuries or where she was transferred.

A person close to the family later confirmed that the actress is now in New York City, according to the Associated Press. That person offered no further details.

A family representative will release a statement Wednesday, the hospital spokeswoman said.

According to online reports, Richardson, 45, was transferred via private jet to New York, with her husband, actor Liam Neeson, by her side.

Fall occurred on beginner's trail

Lyne Lortie of the Mont Tremblant ski resort said Richardson was conscious and showed no signs of a serious head injury after she fell on a beginner run on Monday while in the company of an experienced instructor.

Though the actress had not been wearing a helmet, she fell "right in the middle of the trail. She didn't hit anyone or anything. It was a normal fall that you would expect from a ski lesson," Lortie told CBC News.

"She showed no injuries. She was talking. She seemed all right. But [the ski patrol] have to follow strict procedures so they brought her back to the bottom of the slope."

Lortie added that Monday was a "beautiful sunny day" in Mont Tremblant and that the slope "wasn't icy at all."

The patrol accompanied Richardson and her instructor to her hotel room, where the actress was advised to see a doctor. Later, Richardson reported feeling unwell and an ambulance was called.

The actress was first taken to the Centre Hospitalier Laurentien in Ste-Agathe and later transferred to Sacré-Coeur hospital in Montreal, the ski resort said.

Neeson rushed from set to be with wife

Neeson, who had been in Toronto filming the Atom Egoyan movie Chloe on Monday, immediately left the Toronto set upon receiving news of his wife's accident.

The couple's two pre-teen sons, Michael and Daniel, are reportedly in New York although one media report said the elder son, Michael, was with his mother at Mont Tremblant.

"We know that she has had an accident, but we really do not know any more details," actress Kika Markham, Richardson's aunt, told BBC Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones in London earlier Tuesday.

"We are very concerned," said Markham, who is married to Richardson's uncle, Corin Redgrave.

Hails from prominent theatre family

Richardson is the elder daughter of Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and the late director Tony Richardson.

As well as her uncle Corin and aunt Kika, her aunt Lynne Redgrave and sister Joely Richardson are actors. So were her maternal grandparents, Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.

Richardson's film credits include The Handmaid's Tale, Gothic, A Month in the Country, Nell — in which she appeared with Neeson — The Parent Trap and Maid in Manhattan.

Trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, Richardson is also an acclaimed stage actress both on the West End and Broadway, where she won a Tony Award in 1998 for playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret.

In January, Richardson and her mother played the roles of mother and daughter in a one-night benefit concert version of A Little Night Music, the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical, in New York. They are also set to star in an coming revival of the production.

Richardson married Neeson in 1994.

[bmg97]

Isn't it a bad idea for someone with a brain injury to fly ? Pressure changes in the cabin could make things worse ?

[FRP]

^^^ I completely disagree. You don't have to be hauling ass to wack your head really hard. I've taken come classic icy parking lot/ski boots on/skis on shoulder diggers. And how many truly beginner snowboarders get taken off the mountain with concussions from catching heelside edges going 1mph??? head injuries are fucked up... It seems like sometimes you don't have to fall that hard, but just hit it some weird way that flips the switch and knocks you out, or worse.

[deliberate]

I've not paid attention on cat tracks, fallen, and wacked myself in the back of the helmet with one of my skis. left an edge shaped dent.

[Powdurr]

I don't think I could hurt myself on a beginner trail if I tried. I mean seriously, if I pointed my skis straight downhill (or actually on a bunny slope straight across hill) and ran into a tree head first I don't think I could give myself more then a bad headache. I mean the times I ever find myself on a bunny slope I usually have to skate in order to move ANYWHERE. We are talking 5mph tops. I can see a knee sprain or maybe even a broken leg due to poor bone strength and an awkward fall but skull damage??? Doesn't add up at all.

Doesn't add up??

You can die by tripping on a crack in the sidewalk and falling on your head the wrong way...

[nomensteven]

I don't think I could hurt myself on a beginner trail if I tried. I mean seriously, if I pointed my skis straight downhill (or actually on a bunny slope straight across hill) and ran into a tree head first I don't think I could give myself more then a bad headache. I mean the times I ever find myself on a bunny slope I usually have to skate in order to move ANYWHERE. We are talking 5mph tops. I can see a knee sprain or maybe even a broken leg due to poor bone strength and an awkward fall but skull damage??? Doesn't add up at all.

Falling with all your weight onto your skull on ice is enough to do severe damage, and most people from my experience get hurt on beginner trails, people get going pretty quick on groomed runs and get complacent and don't pay attention then boom.

[MTT]

^^^ I completely disagree. You don't have to be hauling ass to wack your head really hard. I've taken come classic icy parking lot/ski boots on/skis on shoulder diggers. And how many truly beginner snowboarders get taken off the mountain with concussions from catching heelside edges going 1mph??? head injuries are fucked up... It seems like sometimes you don't have to fall that hard, but just hit it some weird way that flips the switch and knocks you out, or worse.

You kinda said it here.
It was probably just a freak thing. She was more likly to suffer an injury like this filling on a slippery parking lot or tripping down metal stairs in ski boots.

[bluespark]

I don't think I could hurt myself on a beginner trail if I tried. I mean seriously, if I pointed my skis straight downhill (or actually on a bunny slope straight across hill) and ran into a tree head first I don't think I could give myself more then a bad headache.

you are a complete FUCKING imbecile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ski_adk]

^^^ I completely disagree. You don't have to be hauling ass to wack your head really hard. I've taken come classic icy parking lot/ski boots on/skis on shoulder diggers. And how many truly beginner snowboarders get taken off the mountain with concussions from catching heelside edges going 1mph??? head injuries are fucked up... It seems like sometimes you don't have to fall that hard, but just hit it some weird way that flips the switch and knocks you out, or worse.

That's how my grandfather went -- he fell while getting the mail and hit his head on the curb. Even though he got to the trama center quickly, the swelling was too much and that was it.

[The Eagle Spreader]

Terrible story and I'm sorry for those involved. Our bodies can be incredibly resilient but sometimes as fragile as eggshells. Today I found myself skiing a long 50 degree slope, thick with trees and some wells, by myself and without a helmet. Stupid. I gotta wise up...