Gwyneth Paltrow ski crash trial: Who's who

Gwyneth Paltrow is connected proceedings implicit a 2016 skis mishap successful Utah involving a retired oculus doc who claims helium suffered life-altering injuries.

Terry Sanderson, 76, says the Hollywood histrion was distracted and caused the crash. He is seeking $300,000 (£245,000) successful damages.

Ms Paltrow, 50, denies the charge, and has countersued for $1 positive compensation for attorneys' fees.

The civilian proceedings has turned connected the grounds of its galore characters.

Mr Sanderson archetypal filed suit against Ms Paltrow successful 2019, 3 years aft their collision.

The retired optometrist, who says helium has ne'er been injured successful much than 30 years of skiing, accuses the Oscar victor of being "reckless" and racing into him from down connected a beginner slope astatine the upscale Deer Valley Resort successful occidental Utah.

Lawyers for Mr Sanderson, who was 69 astatine the time, allege Ms Paltrow was distracted by her children and landed connected apical of him, past near him "lying successful the snow" without calling for help.

He claims the February 2016 clang near him unconscious, and that helium suffered a traumatic encephalon wounded and 4 breached ribs, arsenic good arsenic "loss of enjoyment of life, affectional distress and disfigurement".

He initially sought $3.1m implicit what helium deems a "hit and run", but that suit was dismissed past May.

He is owed to attest connected Monday.

A movie star-cum-lifestyle influencer, Ms Paltrow rejects the plaintiff's mentation of events and alleges helium skied straight into her back.

Taking the basal connected Friday, she testified that she was going downhill erstwhile she saw a brace of skis look betwixt her skis, heard "strange grunting" noises and felt a assemblage pressing into her from behind.

Her archetypal content was that she was being sexually assaulted, she said, claiming they fell connected the crushed together, skis tangled up, and were "almost spooning".

She told the tribunal she had screamed a profanity astatine Mr Sanderson and did not inquire him if helium was OK due to the fact that she felt "hurt and violated". The clang near Ms Paltrow with a sore genu but nary different injuries.

Her lawyers reason that Mr Sanderson brought his suit due to the fact that she is simply a celebrated celebrity. They besides blasted the clang successful portion connected respective pre-existing aesculapian conditions Mr Sanderson had, including proceeding and imaginativeness nonaccomplishment from a stroke.

Two of Mr Sanderson's daughters' - Polly Sanderson-Grasham and Shae Herath - testified past week that their begetter changed importantly aft the crash.

Ms Sanderson-Grasham said a antheral who was erstwhile "outgoing" and "gregarious" present gets "agitated" and "easily frustrated".

She tearfully recounted 1 peculiar incidental successful which helium was truthful upset she "almost expected drool to beryllium coming retired of his mouth" and knew thing was "terribly wrong".

But she besides said her begetter had go "obsessed" with getting an apology from Ms Paltrow.

On Friday, Ms Paltrow's lawyers questioned Ms Herath implicit emails exchanged with her father. In an email with the taxable enactment "I'm famous... At what cost?", Mr Sanderson said it was "cool" helium had collided with a celebrity.

Ms Herath said Mr Sanderson had grown "very insecure" and "doesn't spot his encephalon anymore", adding that his grand-daughter did not privation to beryllium adjacent him anymore due to the fact that helium was verbally abusive.

"This is not my dad. This is an alternate mentation of my dad," she said.

The defence volition telephone Ms Paltrow's 2 children - Apple, 18, and Moses, 16 - arsenic good arsenic her hubby Brad Falchuk to the basal this week.

The tribunal has heard that Ms Paltrow organised the skis travel truthful that her kids could "blend" with Mr Falchuk, a TV shaper and writer whom she joined successful 2018, and that she paid much than $9,000 for backstage skis lessons astatine the edifice that day.

Mr Sanderson's attorneys assertion Moses, past nine, shouted "mommy, mommy, ticker me" and his parent cocked her caput to the broadside to look astatine him earlier the crash.

The plaintiff's attorneys person called 4 doctors to the basal arsenic adept witnesses bolstering their case.

Dr Alina Fong, a neuropsychologist, said Mr Sanderson had been "struggling with concussion symptoms for a twelvemonth and a half" erstwhile she archetypal saw him successful May 2017.

The symptoms included "mood and property changes, symptom arsenic good arsenic headaches", and they had "completely changed his life", she claimed.

Dr Sam Goldstein, different neuropsychologist, said the struggles helium had observed successful Mr Sanderson were "the benignant of worldly you amended recognize if you travel idiosyncratic astir for 2 weeks".

Dr Wendell Gibby, a neuroradiologist who has reviewed Mr Sanderson's aesculapian record, described him arsenic an intelligent antheral who had intelligibly mislaid "the quality to relation astatine a precocious level".

He added that "the abrupt alteration successful [Mr Sanderson's] functioning, his behaviour and his quality to interact with radical was not thing brought connected by his pre-existing conditions".

The collision was allegedly captured by a GoPro camera, but the footage has not been recovered oregon included arsenic grounds successful the trial.

Ms Paltrow's ineligible squad has called it "the astir important portion of evidence" for the trial, indicating it volition beryllium she was positioned downhill from Mr Sanderson and - per skis etiquette - had the close of way.

It is unclear wherefore footage, if it exists, has gone missing - but determination was astatine slightest 1 eye-witness to the crash.

Greg Ramone, 58, a person of Mr Sanderson's, told the tribunal Tuesday that they were skiing unneurotic erstwhile helium heard a shriek and saw Ms Paltrow "hit [Mr Sanderson] straight successful the back".

The clang sent his person "face down, dispersed eagle, with Gwyneth connected apical of him", but Ms Paltrow slid disconnected him and bolted from the country portion helium laic unresponsive, Mr Ramone testified.