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The man suing Gwyneth Paltrow over what he claims was a hit-and-run ski accident on a posh US slope said Monday the accident had changed his "essence".
Terry Sanderson, a 76-year-old retired optometrist, said the 2016 collision in Utah had left him with four broken ribs and lasting psychological damage.
"I'm like living another life now," he told a court in Park City.
"My interaction with my family has been more difficult and I think.... I of course... I'm desperate to be close to my family and my girls.
"But something's wrong with my essence and what I bring to the table with them. Communication is not as smooth and it's been more difficult."
Sanderson is suing the "Shakespeare in Love" actress over the collision, which his lawyers say caused him damage to the tune of $3.3 million. He filed the suit in 2019 and the case has taken this long to reach court.
Paltrow has in turn countersued, for a symbolic $1, plus legal expenses.
The actress told the trial last week that Sanderson had ploughed into the back of her.
But on Monday, Sanderson took the stand to insist that it was he who was the victim.
"I got hit in my back so hard and it was right at my shoulder blades, a serious, serious smack. I’ve never been hit that hard, and I'm flying," he told the jury.
"Last thing I remember, everything was black."
Sanderson, who before the incident had suffered vision problems and a heart attack, said the collision knocked him out.
Asked about an email he sent to his daughters about the crash with a Hollywood celebrity with the subject line "I'm famous," Sanderson said: "My head was scrambled."
"I didn’t pick my words well. I was trying to add a little levity to a serious situation and it backfired."
He did not deny sending the email, but insisted: "It's the other personality that's inhabiting my body right now."
Stephen Owens, representing Paltrow, argued that any changes in Sanderson's personality were more to do with the natural ageing process.
Paltrow was skiing with her children and her partner, Brad Falchuk.
Last week she told the court "Mr. Sanderson categorically hit me on that ski slope, and that is the truth."
"I was skiing, and two skis came between my skis, forcing my legs apart, and then there was a body pressing against me, and there was a very strange grunting noise" she said.
In his opening statement last week, Paltrow's lawyer said Sanderson is "obsessed" with the lawsuit, and that the case was a "meritless claim of false allegation."
In addition to her Oscar-winning acting career, Paltrow has forged a second career marketing wellness products on her Goop website.
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Special counsel could use Trump's Waco rally as evidence against him: Former FBI official
March 27, 2023
Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith should look to former President Donald Trump's rally in Waco, Texas last weekend for evidence that the former president had intent to incite the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, argued former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi on MSNBC Monday.
This comes as Trump faces sharp criticism for his choice of venue, which some security experts fear he did purposely to invoke the siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco by federal agents, a longtime battle cry of antigovernment militia groups.
"I don't work at the FBI," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "But if I did, these aren't dots on some Trump Derangement Syndrome sort of delusion. There is a direct line in black and white. Roger Stone dedicates his book to the Branch Davidians. The Branch Davidians are viewed as martyrs by groups that celebrate them in black and white, in ink, or online, the Three Percenters and the right-wing militias. The right-wing militias proudly organized the participation of their members in the January 6th insurrection. Donald Trump rolls footage of January 6th, puts his hand over his heart and pays tribute to them, redefining patriotism in America with a direct line again, not a conspiracy theory, in black and white, from Stone to the Branch Davidians to the militia groups to the insurrection to the [potential] Republican nominee for president in 2024. What do you think is happening in the FBI to protect us from that direct line?"
"Well, yeah, I have had the same thought myself," said Figliuzzi. "First, let me dispel the notion that anything significantly changed in terms of how the FBI can operate post-January 6th. I think many people, if you can ask them, hey, do you think have gotten better in terms of addressing domestic terrorism after January 6th, do you think people changed the rules? There is no evidence of that whatsoever. We have no domestic terrorism law and I don't believe, unless there is a secret memo from DOJ, I don't believe the operational guidelines for the FBI have changed one iota with regard to the domestic terrorism program."
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"Boy, do I hope that special council Jack Smith pressed record this weekend, Saturday night, for the Waco rally, because I hope he tries to introduce into evidence — I don't know if he will succeed, but I hope he tries to introduce into evidence former President Trump playing footage of January 6th at his rally," Figliuzzi continued. "And I hope he gets into evidence statements like 'death and destruction' with regard to the case [in New York]. I hope he gets into evidence the picture of Trump about to swing a baseball bat at [Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg's head. I hope all of that goes into evidence for mindset and context, because that's what Trump is doing."
"I am pleased that John Heilemann has drawn that line for us, that many people are unaware of what happened at Waco and the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building two years later by a guy named Timothy McVeigh, who was simply there at Waco observing what happened and tried to get retribution when he blew up the federal building with a day care center in it," added Figliuzzi. "With regard to what is the FBI thinking about right now, one question is, who was at Waco Saturday night in the crowd? Who is the next Timothy McVeigh that's going to act on the rhetoric and the incitement of violence of Donald Trump and do something horrible? Next week? Next year?"
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The shooter who killed three children and three adults at a school in Nashville left behind a map and manifesto relating to the attack, police chief John Drake said.
Police searched the home of the suspect, who was killed by police at the school, and found evidence of a targeted attack, Drake told reporters.
"We have a manifesto, we have some writings we are going over that pertain to this day, the actual incident, we have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place," he said.
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