Liam Neeson is happy living alone.
The 72-year-old action film star confirmed he is no longer dating his wife of 15 years, actress Natasha Richardson, after her death.
“No, in a word. “I’ve been through all that,” he said in an interview. People Published on Wednesday.
Leeson and Richardson were married from 1994 to 2009, when the ‘Parent Trap’ star Died after suffering a head injury After a skiing accident in Quebec, Canada. Richardson was 45 years old.
Neeson said of the tragedy, “It was a terrible thing to happen.”
Whose parents are the couple? sons Michael, 29, and Daniel, 28. The boys were 13 and 12 respectively when their mother died.
michael Changed his surname from Neeson His late mother’s maiden name to honor her in 2018.
Neeson told People that after Richardson’s death, his priority was his sons and “making sure they were OK.”
“Everyone worked together,” she said, crediting her mother-in-law, Vanessa Redgrave, and her sister-in-law, Joely Richardson, for helping care for the children afterward.
Neeson said, “We were lucky in many ways.”
The “Taken” star’s eldest son has followed in his parents’ footsteps as an actor. Michael also starred alongside his famous father in the 2020 comedy-drama film “Made in Italy.”
Neeson said, “I think Natasha would be proud.” “I hope so.”
Neeson met Richardson while working on the Broadway show “Anna Christie” in 1993. They married at his farmhouse in upstate New York in July 1994, two years after Richardson’s divorce from her first husband, Robert Fox.
Years after Richardson’s death, Neeson remembered visiting his wife in the hospital after a skiing accident. Doctors told them that Richardson, who was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City after suffering injuries, was brain dead and on life support.
Neeson said, “I went up to her and told her I loved her.” 2014 “60 Minutes” interview“Sweetie, you won’t come back from this. You’ve banged your head. This – I don’t know if you can hear me, but this – this is what went down.
Neeson also revealed that the couple “made a pact” that if either of them ended up in a “vegetative state”, the other person would let the doctors pull the plug.
“So when I looked at him and saw all these tubes and stuff, that was my immediate thought. Was, ‘Okay, these tubes have to go. She’s gone,” Neeson shared.
Before Richardson, Neeson was in relationships with Helen Mirren, Brooke Shields and Barbra Streisand.
