It's been nearly five years since Natasha Richardson died after a freak skiing accident, and last night Liam Neeson remembered his late wife on 60 Minutes. Highlights from the interview, per the Independent and Us:
- Her death "was never real. It still kind of isn't," Neeson told Anderson Cooper. "There’s periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years ... anytime I hear that door opening, I still think I’m going to hear her."
- He recalled what it was like to be told his wife was brain dead. "She and I had made a pact, if any of us got into a vegetative state that we’d pull the plug," he says. "That was my immediate thought ... 'OK, these tubes have to go. She’s gone.'"
- During their final moments together, "I went in to her and I told her I loved her, said 'Sweetie, you’re not coming back from this, you’ve banged your head,'" he said. Neeson actually spoke to her by phone before she lost consciousness, before the seriousness of her injury became apparent: "She said, 'Oh, darling. I've taken a tumble in the snow.' That's how she described it."