Vanessa Redgrave reflects the tragic death of daughter Natasha Richardson in the 2009 ski accident

Vanessa Redgrave opened up after a skiing accident about the tragic death of her daughter Natasha Richardson.

The Parenting trap The actor died in 2009, two days after she had hit her head when he started a beginner lesson in a resort in Mont Tremblant, Canada.

Initially, Richardson decided that she felt good and returned to her hotel room – but was taken to a local hospital after 45 minutes later. The following day she was flown to a New York hospital and laid for life support.

The family of the 45-year-old made the decision to eliminate life preserving, and she died with her husband, actor Liam Neeson, at her side. An autopsy found that after a blunt hit on the head, she had suffered an epidural hematoma (bleeding in the brain).

Last year Richardson's sister, Nip/Tuck The actor Joely Richardson opened the “devastating” turn of events. Now that Natashas had been 62nd birthday, she shared a message on behalf of her mother, 88.

“Today I would have been my sister's birthday,” wrote Joely, 60th, “I asked my MA if she wanted to say something. She dictated me.”

Redgrave replied: “We were in Greece War and peace.

“Our Natasha, as yes, she was a girl, swam out of my womb, who was ready for everything.

“I cannot believe that you are not swimming somewhere in one of the pools or seas that we have explored. I will never reconcile myself with her, and I am sure that every mother who has lost a child will always have this pain.”

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In 2024, Joely said that she “took about five years to overcome the shock, trauma and horror to lose Natasha in a” unimaginable “way.

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She told The times: “We didn't know that it would be the end.

The actor added that the role of Natasha as a family organizer “did not come to me so easily”.

“It was a very strange transition that took years,” she continued. “I didn't make it aware of it. I just dealt with how someone does when someone dies and the family absolutely goes into the crisis.

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“It wasn't just about children without a mother left. It was about the effects for me. I hadn't lived a day of my life without a toss. I didn't know the world without her.”

Natasha and Joely are the daughters of Redgrave and film author, director and producer Tony Richardson, with whom Redgrave was married between 1961 and 1967.

Tony, the filmmaker behind Kitchen-Sink classics Look back in anger (1959) and A taste of honey (1961) won the Oscar for Best Director for Period Comedy in 1964 Tom Jones. In 1991 he died of complications from AIDS aged 63.

Redgrave had the son Carlo Gabriel, an Italian-British screenwriter, film director and producer, with the actor Franco Nero in 1969. After a marriage to the Bond actor Timothy Dalton from 1971 to 1986, Heidte Redgrave finally hired Nero in 2006.

Redgraves credits include A man for all seasonsPresent Blowup (both 1966), Mission: impossible (1996) and atonement (2004).