While attempting the beginner’s slope, she fell and suffered a head injury.
The actor didn’t discuss the details of his final moments with his wife until five years later.
But she hadn’t understood the depth of how serious the accident was.
“I spoke to her and she said, ‘Oh, darling.
I’ve taken a tumble in the snow.’
That’s how she described it,” Liam recalled.
It would later be revealed that Richardson’s accident was far more serious than a simple tumble.
With her condition quickly worsening, Richardson was quickly rushed to the hospital.
Upon hearing of her hospitalization, Neeson flew to Montreal to be with her.
It was there that he learned his wife had been declared brain dead.
There was little more he could do than give his parting words to his beloved partner.
“I went in to her and told her I loved her,” Neeson revealed.
“[I] said, ‘Sweetie, you’re not coming back from this.
You’ve banged your head.
I don’t know if you could hear me, but this is what’s gone down.”
It was something he knew his wife wanted for herself in that situation.
“She and I had made a pact,” Neeson told Anderson Cooper.
“If any of us got into a vegetative state, we’d pull the plug, you know?
She’s gone.'”
Adjusting to life without his wife at his side was difficult for Neeson, to say the least.
“She would always drop the keys on the table and say, ‘Hello?'”
And, then, grief’s like, it hits you."
