Natasha Richardson critically injured in ski accident
Actress Natasha Richardson is clinging to life after a freak accident at a ski resort in Montreal. From Us Weekly:
The British-born actress, 45, was not wearing a ski helmet when she tumbled down a hill during a private ski lesson at the bottom of a beginners' run.There's unconfirmed reports that Natasha is brain dead and is not expected to survive. Damn. Our thoughts go out to her family.
In a statement, Tremblant spokeswoman Lyne Lortie tells Us that Richardson was "accompanied by an experienced ski instructor who immediately called the ski patrol . . . [Natasha] did not show any visible sign of injury, but the ski patrol followed strict procedures and brought her back to the bottom of the slope and insisted she should see a doctor.
"As an additional precautionary measure, the ski instructor, as well as the ski patrol, accompanied Mrs. Richardson to her hotel. They again recommended she should be seen by a doctor. Approximately an hour after the incident Mrs. Richardson was not feeling good," Lortie says. "An ambulance was called and Mrs. Richardson was brought to the Centre Hospitalier Laurentien in Ste-Agathe and was later transferred to Hôpital du Sacre-Coeur." (Source)
UPDATE: Both Fox News and the New York Post are confirming that Richardson is brain dead. She's being flown back to New York so family and friends can say goodbye before she's taken off of life support. Thanks a fucking lot Canada. Just when you started getting cool again . . .
What?!? She went from falling down a practice slope, to getting up and going to her hotel room, to not feeling well an hour later, to being brain dead and not expected to survive. I'm confused.
Uh oh someone call him a doctor. Confusion comes right before becoming brain dead. Just ask Natasha.
who's Natasha Richardson?
Very sad. If the worst reports turn out to be true, and if the fall was really as minor as is being reported, it sounds like some latent health issue might be lurking in the background. Maybe the fall triggered --- or even was caused by --- a stroke, or something like that.
Anyway, here's hoping I'm wrong and this story gets better instead of worse.
yeah like you can blame the country where is happened ..DUHHHH
I often go skiing here in Europe. It is ASTONISHING how few people wear ski-helmets. Why?
....IT DOESN'T LOOK SO COOL!!!????
It should be made COMPULSORY!!! So maybe for now it is a Darwinian mechnanism to weed out the stoopid.
Sorry, but this is how I feel.
damn that sux, ddnt kno much of her, i just know she was in cabaret that i never watched and the parent trap that i did watch. reguardless,....hope this brain dead thing isnt true
Leave canada alone. She is a beautiful woman who had a tragic accident.
Like calling the kettle black - USA....
And we be cool !