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Last night TMZ reported that Natasha Richardson's mother, Vanessa Redgrave, was seen entering Lenox Hill Hospital to visit her daughter sometime just before 9 p.m. Richardson, a Tony-winning stage and film actress was transported to New York yesterday after suffering a brain injury during a skiing accident in Canada.
Reiterating the Post's earlier report, a source tells the Daily News that Richardson "is brain dead," adding that she had "been on life support since [Tuesday] morning." On Monday, Richardson had fallen during a private skiing lesson on a beginner trail (pictured) in Quebec. Though she appeared fine afterwards, some say she could have suffered from "talk and die syndrome", which a doctor described as when a person seems okay but is suffering from an epidural hemorrhage, where blood rapidly collects between the skull and brain. The resort released a statement saying Richardson declined to see a doctor after her fall but complained of a headache an hour later and was taken away in an ambulance.
Richardson, along with her husband Liam Neeson and their two sons, has a home in Manhattan as well as one in upstate New York. A reporter witnessed Neeson at her side as she was boarded on to the plane in Canada, and the NY Times reports that at that time she was "heavily wrapped in blankets with tubes around her face."
According to People, "friends and family members gathered for a vigil in New York to be with Richardson." And E! Online has reported from unnamed sources, said to be friends of the actresses, that "her body" was flown back to New York, and "They would not put her on a plane with the air pressure changes if she had brain swelling and was still alive." The Canadian hospital said that Richardson's family was expected to release a statement today.
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Horrible news. My thoughts are with her family and friends.
This kind of random accident scares the crap out of me. Helmets for everyone!
This is so sad. Best wishes for her and her family.
Talk and die syndrome? Now that's an interesting term, in fact I would say - THUD
This is very sad news.
I had no idea there was such a thing as "talk and die syndrome".
Terrible tragedy but very instructive not to take any injury lightly.
That's so awful - I've been to Tremblant so many times, never heard of anything this crazy in my whole life of skiing. My thoughts are with her family.
God I forgot Vanessa Redgrave was her mother. I hope the reports have been exaggerated. I was just ogling her boobs on Top Chef like a month ago! My thoughts are with her and her family.
A couple times I've witnessed friends get concussed on the mountain, get back up, talk, act like everything is fine, and then 3 hours later they start barfing and passing out.
I now feel lucky that that's all that happened to them, considering what I now know is possible. All this from a beginners trail? Crikies that's awful; condolences to the family.
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I just learned skiing for the very first time two weeks ago, on the bunny hill. It was so much fun, but now I'm so scared to ever do it again.
I didn't wear a helmet, and do not really regret not wearing one. I was very very slow, like jogging. I wouldn't wear a helmet jogging either, right.
However, should I ever ski again and get a little faster, I would wear a helmet.
Twice in my life I had a bleeding head injury that needed stitches, and it didn't even occur to me then that something more serious could potentially develop out of it.
And Miss Richardson didn't even have a sign of injury.
Please don't blame her for not wearing a helmet.
This seems like such a freak accident combined with terrible bad luck.
First off, I transported many brain injury patients, on vents and on medications to other places (on planes) so the speculation that she is brain dead is one that is pure speculation - at this point. If she suffered a subdural hematoma then there is the possiblity that she is not doing so well....but give thhis to God and send to her family the strength to do what they need to....
The NY post broke the story.