7. Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson
It was 1994 when Liam Neeson married Natasha Richardson in Northern Ireland. Natasha gave her husband the perfect gift when she serenaded him with their wedding song, Van Morrison’s Crazy Love. “Behind my back Natasha had been taking singing lessons to sing it to me,” Liam stated in an interview. “After the ceremony we were all going out to start the night’s festivities and she grabbed the microphone and she sang me this. She had learned it and I was like, ‘Wow!’” They remained married until her death in 2009.
It took 5 years for Liam to open up about her death, caused by a skiing accident which resulted in a seemingly minor head injury. “I spoke to her and she said, ‘Oh darling. I’ve taken a tumble in the snow. That’s how she described it,” he told Anderson Cooper. After the accident she was flown from the ski resort to a Montreal hospital, some 60 miles south from where the accident took place. The doctor explained to Neeson, after showing him his wife’s x-rays, that she was brain dead, surviving only on life support. Neeson honored the “pact” the two had made, about what would happen if either of them were ever on life support.
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