While on the witness stand, Sanderson testified that he was skiing down the right side of the run when he heard “a blood-curdling scream.”
“It was ahhh and then boom,” Sanderson said, smacking his hands together. “It was like somebody was out of control and going to hit a tree and was going to die.”
He said he then felt someone crash into his back sending him “absolutely flying.”
“All I saw was a whole lot of snow,” Sanderson said. “It’s quite a ways to hit the ground and I just said, OK, you got to protect your face and your head, and that’s the last thing I remember.”
He testified that he didn’t remember if he hit his head on the ground, saying that “everything” went black and all he could hear was the voice of a man who sounded angry with him. At first, Sanderson said he couldn’t make out what the man was saying but then heard the person tell him, “You hit somebody, you hurt somebody.”
“Did you know who he was?” his attorney Kristin VanOrman asked.
“I had no idea,” Sanderson said. “It was just a very angry person bullying me into believing something that I didn’t think could happen.”
He said he remembered apologizing “to placate this guy” and said he was sorry twice. In his head, it sounded like he was whispering, Sanderson testified, saying that his lips were moving to make out “I’m sorry,” but he couldn’t hear the words coming out of his mouth.
Paltrow testified last week that she cussed Sanderson out after she said he crashed into her back, causing the two to fall to the ground. On Monday, Sanderson testified that he didn’t hear her voice at all.
“I only heard a male voice,” he said. “I heard nothing that maybe happened before I came to that point in consciousness.”
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/skbaer/gwyneth-paltrow-ski-trial-terry-sanderson-testifies
