Much of the testimony in the two-week trial centered on precisely what happened in those critical moments on the ski hill and whether Sanderson had a cognitive deficit afterward. The depositions of Paltrow’s children with ex-husband Chris Martin, Apple and Moses, were later read aloud during court. Apple, now 18, said in hers that her mom was “shaken up,” even “very frantic” afterward.
In closing arguments Thursday, one of Sanderson’s attorneys argued that their client would gladly go back in time, if he could, and make sure that none of this had ever happened. Paltrow’s lawyers argued that most of his physical symptoms were already there before the accident and that he’s better than he thinks he is, and that he’d negatively affected an important time in her life, as she and her husband Brad Falchuk, who was then her boyfriend, were on the ski trip to gauge how well their families could blend.
