Natasha Richardson’s household is remembering her over 16 years after her demise.
The late “Parent Trap” star’s sister, Joely Richardson, shared a heartfelt message on Sunday to mark a bittersweet event.
“Today would have been my sister Tasha’s birthday,” Joely, 60, wrote in her Instagram tribute, which featured throwback pictures of the siblings and their mother, actress Vanessa Redgrave.
“I asked my Ma if she’d like to say anything,” Joely continued. “This is what she dictated to me.”
Redgrave, 88, reminisced on when she and then-husband Tony Richardson named Natasha throughout a visit to Greece.
“We sat drinking our coffees in Constitution Square. Tony said if the baby was a boy we should call him Tom. I said if she was a girl I would like her to be called Natasha after Tolstoy ‘s ‘War and Peace,’” Regrave mentioned.
“Our Natasha, as yes she was a girl, came swimming out of my womb ready for anything,” the “Julia” actress continued. “I can’t believe that she isn’t swimming somewhere now, in one of the pools or seas we explored.”
“I will never be reconciled to her dying in the snow,” Redgrave added of her oldest daughter’s tragic passing, “and I’m sure that every mother who has lost a child will have that pain always.”
Different stars paid tribute to Natasha within the feedback part, together with Andy Cohen, Julianne Moore, Richard E. Grant and Amy Sedaris.
Natasha died at age 45 in March 2009 after struggling head trauma following a snowboarding accident in Quebec, Canada.
She complained of a headache after a seemingly minor fall, earlier than she was rushed to a neighborhood hospital after which transferred to a much bigger one in Montreal. She was lastly despatched residence to Lenox Hill in New York the place she handed.
On the time of her demise, Natasha was married to actor Liam Neeson. They received married at their farmhouse in upstate New York in July 1994, two years after Richardson’s divorce from her first husband, Robert Fox.
The “Taken” actor, 72, spoke about his spouse’s demise in an interview with Folks final yr.
“It was a horrible thing to happen,” Neeson mentioned.
He additionally credited Redgrave and Joely with serving to him together with his and Natasha’s sons Micheál, 29, and Daniel, 28, within the aftermath.
“Everybody just pulled together. We were fortunate in lots of ways,” he mentioned.
