Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter


9

Neeson 'Taking Each Day as It Comes'

Actor talks for the first time about wife's death

Share

(Newser) – Liam Neeson and his boys are “taking each day as it comes,” he tells ABC. In his first interview since wife Natasha died in March, Neeson says his two sons, ages 13 and 12, are “getting along as best they can." The actor says he's "still getting extraordinary condolence letters from American people that's deeply touching," and that outreach helped cinch his decision to become a US citizen.

He also paid tribute to Ted Kennedy: "I met him a couple of times over the years, and he wrote my family a very, very beautiful, touching condolence letter when Natasha died earlier this year. He was a special man. It's the end of an era."

Actor Liam Neeson attends the premiere for
Actor Liam Neeson attends the premiere for "Five Minutes of Heaven" at the Tribeca Grand Hotel on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 in New York.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
Actor Liam Neeson attends the premiere for
Actor Liam Neeson attends the premiere for "Five Minutes of Heaven" at the Tribeca Grand Hotel on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 in New York.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
« Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow
Liam Neeson talks about losing his wife, Natasha Richardson.   (E!Online)

View larger videos >>
« Prev« Prev | Next »Next »

I have a very clear memory of being a 10-year-old boy and being taken to the ancestral Kennedy homestead in Ireland and posing for a photograph underneath the gable of their home. - Liam Neeson

« Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow
OFF THE GRID
11.23.09
Books Are Bad for You
11.20.09
The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun
9 comments
VIEWING:
 
SalParadise
Aug 26, 09 4:01 PM CDT
A class act. Reply
Vote up! Vote down!
+4
wwwonderer
Aug 26, 09 4:11 PM CDT
I enjoyed Taken this year, and watched Batman Begins last night. I hope he has strength to get through it all. Time heals all wounds. Reply
Vote up! Vote down!
+3
IN RESPONSE:
flame821
Aug 26, 09 5:00 PM CDT
He is an extraordinary man and actor. If you want to see an excellent film look for Accused with he and Laura SanGiacamo (she played the daughter on "just shoot me") as mysteries go it was superb and amazingly acted and directed.
Vote up! Vote down!
+4
IN RESPONSE:
Deebles
Aug 27, 09 1:17 AM CDT
Oh if that were true. Time heals all wounds. In my support group for parents who've lost a child there are people who've been trying to heal for thirty years. I'm at two and a half and I dream about him every night. Sometimes, I wake up and can feel his hand in mine for just a second. I keep telling them to get on Newser because here you are not just a shattered human but a commenter who gets treated like everyone else. The hardest thing about loss is that no one treats you like before. Except here where you can go fuck yourself. A very healthy thing for people who are out of the timeline. It is hard to lose anyone suddenly, wife, parent child because you had no plan for this. And while you never heal you can like Liam or any of the millions of people who live daily with loss--just keep on living.
Vote up! Vote down!
+1
IN RESPONSE:
ruserious
Aug 27, 09 12:10 PM CDT
Neeley I am so sorry to hear of your loss.
Vote up! Vote down!
0

View all 9 comments »

LEAVE A
COMMENT Comment Policy
Facebook ConnectPost this comment to Facebook?

After connecting you will have the option to post your comment on your Facebook profile.

 

Related Newser Stories

25 Stories

GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 No Secret 
 Brad-Jen Meeting: Rep 

But not-so-secret Lilo-Sam meeting, and more

May 7, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hot on the heels of the rumor that Brad Pitt wants Jennifer Aniston back, reports surfaced yesterday that the two met last month—or did they? Jen’s reps quickly denied In Touch’s claim that they shared a secret drive around New York, the Daily Star reports. Elsewhere:
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
entertainment • Brad Pitt • Lindsay Lohan • celebrity • Jennifer Aniston • Sarah Jessica Parker • Michael Jackson • Kiefer Sutherland • Liam Neeson • Samantha Ronson • Natasha Richardson • Brooke Shields

GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 A Bundchen in the Oven? 

Plus, Susan Boyle forced to change phone number, more

May 5, 09 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gisele Bundchen visited the OB/GYN yesterday—gasp!—with hubby Tom Brady, thus prompting the requisite pregnancy rumors from the New York Post. Elsewhere:
  • Poor Susan Boyle, inundated by late-night phone calls, was forced to change her number, the Sun reports.
  • Liam Neeson recently called late wife’s
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
entertainment • Yoko Ono • John Lennon • celebrity • gossip • Gisele Bundchen • Tom Brady • celebrity pregnancy • Liam Neeson • Natasha Richardson • Susan Boyle

Neeson's Return to Film 'Extraordinary': Director

Grieving actor showed generosity, professionalism

Apr 28, 09 10:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Director Atom Egoyan praised the “extraordinary” Liam Neeson for returning to work on his film Chloe so soon after the March 18 death of wife Natasha Richardson, the AP reports. “He was very committed to the film and finishing his role,” Egoyan said. “It was just... More »

MORE ABOUT:
film • celebrity • death • Liam Neeson • Natasha Richardson • Atom Egoyan • Chloe

25 Stories


Gossip 
TwitterFollow @NewserGossip on Twitter

 
Good Morning America • brain injuries • traumatic brain injury • Liam Neeson • Natasha Richardson • hematoma

from our news partners