For the first time since his wife's untimely death in March 2009, Liam Neeson is speaking out about dealing with his personal pain in a candid new interview for Esquire magazine.
In the interview, featured in the magazine's upcoming March issue, Liam spoke openly about the day his wife, actress Natasha Richardson, died following a skiing accident near Montreal at the age of 45.
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After receiving word that Natasha had suffered a head injury during a fall on the slopes, Liam - who had been shooting the film "Chloe" in Toronto - rushed to be by his wife's side at the hospital and recalled the chaos of the scene.
"I walked into the emergency -- it's like 70, 80 people, broken arms, black eyes, all that -- and for the first time in years, nobody recognizes me. Not the nurses. The patients. No one. And I've come all this way, and they won't let me see her," Liam recounted to Esquire. "And I'm looking past them, starting to push... I know my wife's back there someplace. I pull out a cell phone -- and a security guard comes up, starts saying, 'Sorry, sir, you can't use that in here,' and I'm about to ask him if he knew me, when he disappears to answer a phone call or something. So I went outside. It's freezing cold, and I thought, What am I gonna do? How am I going to get past the security?"
It was then, the 58-year-old actor recalled that a nurse recognized him and pointed him towards his wife's room.
"I was so [expletive] grateful -- for the first time in I don't know how long -- to be recognized. And this one, she says, 'Go in that back door there.' She points me to it. 'Make a left. She's in a room there.' So I get there, just in time," he continued. "And all these young doctors, who look all of 18 years of age, they tell me the worst."
Liam Neeson Recalls Death Of Wife Natasha Richardson
