This Monday the man who sued famed Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow took the stand after her lawyers claimed that new evidence emerged about the skiing accident that allegedly caused her serious physical injuries.
Terry Sanderson, a 76-year-old retired optometrist, said he was skiing "easy" when he heard a scream he called "blood-curdling" shortly before he fell.
"I just remember everything was great and then I heard something I’ve never heard at a ski resort and that was a blood-curdling scream (...) It was like somebody was out of control and going to hit a tree and was going to die. And that’s what I had until I was hit," he said.
The optometrist said he was hit very hard in the back, "right at the bottom of my shoulder blades. (...) I’ve never been hit that hard," he said.
The man suing @GwynethPaltrow said he heard a blood curdling scream right before the actress allegedly hit him while skiing in 2016. “Ahhhh! And then, boom!” #TerrySanderson said on the stand Monday morning. He said after the collision, everything went black. pic.twitter.com/KT0C3r2dNI
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A new test
Judge Kent Holmberg stated that online detectives found a link containing a conversation between members of Sanderson's ski group and added that this content will be included as evidence.
Craig Ramon, another skier who claims to be the only eyewitness to the accident, said in messages that Terry was knocked unconscious after the accident and allegedly hit his head so hard that he didn't even remember what his name was.
Gwyneth Paltrow's version of the story
Last week it was the actress who took the stand and told how she was the one who fell after the man hit her from behind.
According to Paltrow, at the time of the accident she even thought she was being sexually assaulted because of the way his skis "got in the way" of hers, forcing her to spread her legs apart. In addition to this, the actress mentioned that she felt the optometrist's body pressing against hers from behind until they both fell to the ground.
"I was confused at first, and I didn’t know exactly what was happening. It’s a very strange thing to be happening on a ski slope,.I froze, and I would say I got very upset a couple seconds later," she said.
