Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow is being sued by a retired optometrist who says she crashed into him on a ski slope, leaving him with a number of injuries.
Paltrow denies this – claiming that Terry Sanderson crashed into her – and on Friday she had her chance to share her side of the story with a court room in Park City, Utah.
Among the notable moments:
Terry Sanderson was making ‘strange noises that sounded male’
Paltrow said she had initially thought she was being sexually assaulted during the collision.
She said she knew a man had crashed into her because he was making “some strange noises that sounded male” and he was “large”.
She said she felt “a body pressing against me”, adding: “There was a strange grunting noise”.
Are you counter-suing for $1 because of a Taylor Swift case?
Paltrow was asked if she was counter-suing for $1 because US singer Taylor Swift brought a similar “symbolic” lawsuit in the past.
When asked if she knew about Swift’s case, Paltrow said: “I had not been familiar with it, but I now am.”
“It’s an actual dollar that I’m asking for – it’s symbolic because the damages would actually be more,” she added.
When asked if she and Swift are friends, she said: “I would not say we’re good friends – we are friendly, but we don’t talk very often.”
