Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Gwyneth Paltrow took the stand on Friday afternoon, telling a Utah jury that she was not the one to blame for a ski accident seven years ago.
Paltrow is being sued by Terry Sanderson, a 76-year-old retired optometrist, who alleges that she crashed into him at the upscale Deer Valley Resort.
In her testimony, Paltrow described watching her children ski downhill when Sanderson abruptly crashed into her from behind. “I was skiing and two skis came between my skis, forcing my legs apart,” she said. “And then there was a body pressing against me.” She said that Sanderson was making a “strange grunting noise,” and that she initially thought it might be a sexual assault. “My brain was trying to make sense of what was happening,” she said. “I thought, ‘Is this a practical joke?
Is someone doing something perverted?'” She said that she was “very upset” and angry, and that she yelled at him, “You skied directly into my f—ing back!” The trial began on Tuesday.
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