Liam Neeson Talks About the Death of His Wife

In a recent interview with Esquire Magazine, stage and screen star Liam Neeson chatted for the first time about how he dealt with the death of his wife, and fellow actor, Natasha Richardson back in 2009. 

He told Esquire, "I walked into the emergency -- it's like 70, 80 people, broken arms, black eyes, all that -- and for the first time in years, nobody recognizes me. Not the nurses. The patients. No one. And I've come all this way, and they won't let me see her. And I'm looking past them, starting to push... I know my wife's back there someplace. I pull out a cell phone -- and a security guard comes up, starts saying, 'Sorry, sir, you can't use that in here,' and I'm about to ask him if he knew me, when he disappears to answer a phone call or something. "

"I was so [expletive] grateful -- for the first time in I don't know how long -- to be recognized. And this one, she says, 'Go in that back door there.' She points me to it. 'Make a left. She's in a room there.' So I get there, just in time," he continued. "And all these young doctors, who look all of 18 years of age, they tell me the worst."

He added, "It hits you in the middle of the night -- well, it hits me in the middle of the night. I'm out walking. I'm feeling quite content. And it's like suddenly, boom."

In 1993, Neeson joined future wife Natasha Richardson in the Broadway playAnna Christie . Additional Broadway credits include The Play What I Wrote, The Crucible, and The Judas Kiss.

He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Agent Bryan Mills in Taken,Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey, Ras Al Ghul in Batman Begins and the voice of Aslanin The Chronicles of Narnia film series. He has also starred in several other notable films, including Excalibur, The Dead Pool, Rob Roy, Nell, Gangs of New York, Love Actually, Kingdom of Heaven, The Haunting, Clash of the Titans, and The A-Team.

To read the full interview, click here.