Modern-day action star, Liam Neeson, 72, recently stated that he’s totally happy and content being single and on his own. Neeson, who is most well known for his role in “Taken,” confirmed during an interview with PEOPLE that he isn’t dating anyone right now, 15 years after the tragic death of his wife, fellow thespian Natasha Richardson.
“No, in a word. I’m past all that,” he stated during the interview.
For some people, they meet a special person, fall in love, and that relationship is so fulfilling and rich that they know that any other relationship will fail to live up to it, and thus, what they had was once-in-a-lifetime. And that’s why they never seek another romantic partnership. It seems odd to most of us, but there’s something quite beautiful about that.
Via The New York Post:
Neeson and Richardson were married from 1994 to 2009, when the “Parent Trap” star passed away after suffering head trauma following a skiing accident in Quebec, Canada. Richardson was 45. “It was a horrible thing to happen,” Neeson said about the tragedy. The couple are parents to sons Micheál, 29, and Daniel, 28. The boys were 13 and 12, respectively, when their mom died. Micheál changed his surname from Neeson to his late mother’s maiden name to honor her in 2018.
Neeson told People that after Richardson died, his priority was his sons and “making sure they were okay.” “Everybody just pulled together,” he said, crediting his mother-in-law, Vanessa Redgrave, and his sister-in-law, Joely Richardson, for helping him with the kids in the aftermath. “We were fortunate in lots of ways,” Neeson added.
The couple’s son, Micheal, has an acting career of his own and even starred along with his dad in a 2020 comedy called, “Made in Italy.” Neeson stated in the interview that he believes his wife would be very proud of their son and his accomplishments.
Neeson and Richardson first met in 1993 when they were both working on Broadway show “Anna Christie.” A year later, in July, the two were marred in their farmhouse located in upstate New York, two years after Richardson divorced her first husband, Robert Fox.
Years after Richardson’s death, Neeson recalled visiting his wife in the hospital after her skiing accident. He was told by doctors that Richardson, who was flown to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City after her injury, was brain dead and on life support.
“I went in to her and told her I loved her,” Neeson revealed in a 2014 “60 Minutes” interview. “Sweetie, you’re not coming back from this. You’ve banged your head. It’s — I don’t know if you can hear me, but that’s — this is what’s gone down.”
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Neeson also revealed that the couple “made a pact” that if either of them ended up in “a vegetative state,” the other person would let doctors pull the plug.
“So when I saw her and saw all these tubes and stuff, that was my immediate thought. Was, ‘OK, these tubes have to go. She’s gone,’” Neeson concluded.