Liam Neeson Recalls Painful Night of Natasha Richardson’s Death

(HMG Celebrity News) – Liam Neeson has spoken out about the hellish night he lost his wife Natasha Richardson, nearly two years after her sudden tragic death after falling and banging her head during a skiing lesson in Canada in 2009.  Speaking to Esquire Magazine, Neeson recalled the frightening night he tried to get access to his dying wife, recalling how security at the hospital was high and no one seemed to know who he was.  Neeson was ironically in Montreal shooting a movie in 2009 when the tragic accident happened, and rushed to the hospital to see his wife.

He tells Esquire magazine,

“I walked into the emergency (room) – it’s like 70, 80 people, broken arms, black eyes, all that – and for the first time in years, nobody recognizes me. Not the nurses. The patients. No one.

“I’ve come all this way, and they won’t let me see her. And I’m looking past them, starting to push – I’m like, ‘F**k, I know my wife’s back there someplace.’

“I pull out a cell phone, and a security guard comes up, starts saying, ‘Sorry, sir, you can’t use that in here,’ and I’m about to ask him if he knew me, when he disappears to answer a phone call or something. So I went outside. It’s freezing cold, and I thought, ‘What am I gonna do? How am I going to get past the security?’

“I see two nurses… I walk up, and luckily one of them recognises me. And I’ll tell you, I was so f**king grateful – for the first time in I don’t know how long – to be recognized. And this one (nurse) says, ‘Go in that back door there.’ She points me to it. ‘Make a left. She’s in a room there.’ So I get there, just in time.

“And all these young doctors, who look all of 18 years of age, they tell me the worst.”

Richardson, 45, died of an epidural haematoma and Neeson admits he’s often overcome with grief at the most random moments when he thinks about his late wife.

“It hits you in the middle of the night – well, it hits me in the middle of the night. I’m out walking. I’m feeling quite content. And it’s like suddenly, boom.”

After the initial shock, Neeson went back to work, in part so that he could heal. “I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work,” he said. Neeson began filming “Clash of the Titans” in April of that year, less than a month after the tragedy, and kept on working in “Taken,” “The A Team,” and his upcoming film, “Battleship,” but the pain always catches up.

“It’s easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work. That’s effective. But that’s the weird thing about grief. You can’t prepare for it. You think you’re gonna cry and get it over with. You make those plans, but they never work.”It hits you in the middle of the night — well, it hits me in the middle of the night. I’m out walking. I’m feeling quite content. And it’s like suddenly, boom. It’s like you’ve just done that in your chest.”