Columnist Liz Smith is reporting that Natasha Richardson was taken off life support at 1:30 pm EST today.
Tuesday I was sitting at lunch with Page Six’s Paula Froelich and casting director Bonnie Timmermann at Michael’s restaurant. The head man came and whispered in my ear, “Natasha is dead.” I was worried whether to pass this bad news on to Paula and Bonnie, knowing that the latter was a great friend of Liam Neeson. But I did and therein lies the problem with un-inspected news. He hadn’t said, “Natasha is brain-dead.” He said, “Natasha is dead.” So I ruined Bonnie’s lunch and my own.
Through the afternoon we all realized that this wonderful, unusual star and actress was perhaps not dead and had been moved from Montreal to New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital. Liam, who had been filming in Toronto and had rushed to her side, was now in NYC with the children. I had been waiting for several days for a phone call from Vanessa Redgrave, who was coming to New York to give an award at the UN. The call, of course, never came. Everybody in the family — Liam, the two boys, Vanessa, Lynn Redgrave, Joely Richardson — have all been in the hospital with Natasha, and word is in at 1:30 PM WEDNESDAY they have taken Natasha off of life support. This is not unexpected. Insiders felt yesterday, on learning they were flying Natasha in to Lenox Hill, that this meant her condition was hopeless and they were just finding a place to be together with her and to say good-bye. As one insider remarked:”Nobody goes to Lenox Hill who is really sick; if she’ d had a chance to live, they’d have found another great brain hospital!” This is all just utterly horrible to write!
Liz Smith is a longtime columnist with close ties to the Broadway community, so she’s probably a voice to trust here, although we still don’t have confirmation from the family.
This is just so unbelievably sad. My heart goes out to the family.
Dye your eyebrows.
Did you even read the peice?
no
how heartless did you not read what happend
CHIARA. wow. so wrong. go F yourself.
Chiaria — “Dye your eyebrows”??? And you admit you didn’t read the piece? How old are you?? Twelve?? Go wax your crotch before you show your ass, moron…
you are utterly ignorant and innately stupid. what a horribly dumb thing to say.
SO sad. :(
Why the hell is Liz Smith to be opening her big mouth during lunch to tell a good friend that she heard from some “head man” at a restaurant that a good friend had died? I sure as hell wouldn’t want to be told something like that at lunch.
What an asshole.
Liz Smith is a bloody moron who SHOULD NEVER BE TRUSTED.
The fact that you think she is just reminds me of why i have stopped checking this website out.
Tootles!
you stopped checking this website out? oh really? huh
The public figure Tom Cruise would never lower himself to respond in such a way as the above post.
no shit, moron
The family need to make a statement- this is getting so confusing!! I love Natasha Richardson. :(
I really really really really really really REALLY hope this is not true. I’m waiting for a statement from the family. This is so horrible. Her poor boys…poor Liam….AHH every time I see her, I think of “The Parent Trap” and get SO sad.
Please let this be a lie and PLEASE get better Natasha!
The family probably won’t say anything until all arrangements have been made so they can keep everything private. They don’t want a bunch of dirtbag paparazzos invading like a swarm of locusts.
its crazy how upset you can be over someone you never meant. my heart breaks for her family
I never heard of her. People die every day, but only Hollywood sleaze gets all the recognition.