The 50-year-old Oscar winner is bringing in lawyer Stephen Owens to fight the claim of Dr Terry Sanderson, a 76-year-old retired optometrist, who claims she caused him permanent brain damage after colliding with him and fleeing the scene in 2016 at Deer Valley Resort in Utah.
Mr Owens admitted on Thursday (23.03.23) – day three of the trial over the incident – that he had been an ‘a**’ after cross-examining the daughter of Dr Sanderson’s former military doctor, Polly Sanderson-Grasham, who was called to testify for her father.
According to the New York Post, the lawyer said after Polly Sanderson-Grasham returned to the helm following a break in the proceedings: “I have to apologize, I was acting like a jerk all the time. ‘hour.
“I was wrong to triangulate you, your father, your sister and your mother. I beg your pardon”.
The lawyer appears to have referred to a tense moment earlier in the day when he asked Polly if her sister, Jenny, who had claimed in a deposition that their father was abusive, was a liar.
Jenny, who was due to testify before withdrawing, said in a deposition that her father was “relentlessly trying to mold her”.
Polly acknowledged he had indeed tried to ‘mold’ Jenny, but said it didn’t amount to abuse, and when Mr Owens asked her if she thought her sister was a liar, she said replied: “Sometimes we experience events differently”.
She also told the court in Park City, Utah that her father had been in a “really negative state” since the skiing accident.
Polly claimed that before the collision her father was “fun” and “gregarious”, as well as a “passionate” and a “genuine positive influence”.
But she told jurors her father is now ‘easily frustrated’ and becomes ‘agitated’ and ‘angry’, with a ‘pretty short fuse’ when it comes to his temper – which she says doesn’t matter. was not produced before the accident.
Dr Sanderson is suing Sliding Doors actress Gwyneth for $300,000 and claims she was ‘out of control’ when she punched him, leaving her with a debilitating brain injury as well as four broken ribs.
Gwyneth is also accused of “fleeing” the scene of the accident, which she categorically denies, claiming instead that it was Dr Sanderson who hit her.
Mother-of-two Gwyneth, whose children Apple and Moses were 11 and 9 respectively at the time of the skiing accident, has been charged in court with being distracted on the slopes by one of her children who was shouting: “Mum, mum, look at me doing”: “Mum, mum, look at me skiing”, before the accident.
Gwyneth is suing Dr Sanderson, who is seeking $300,000 in compensation for the apparent brain damage he suffered from the collision, and says she is seeking “nominal damages” of one dollar, plus her salary.
“symbolic damages” of one dollar, as well as the payment of his attorney’s fees.
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