On March 4, two weeks before she would die as a result of a freak skiing accident, actress Natasha Richardson went to the Sally Hershberger salon in downtown New York City to get her hair cut. "She couldn't stop talking about her upcoming ski trip," an eyewitness tells Life & Style. "She seemed so sweet and down-to-earth. She kept mentioning her husband, Liam Neeson, too. She beamed whenever she talked about him and her family."

But tragically, Natasha, 45, fell on a beginner's slope at Quebec's Mont Tremblant Resort on March 16, and the blunt impact to her head caused bleeding in her brain that proved fatal two days later. "Liam has lost the love of his life," says a friend of the 56-year-old actor. "The whole thing is so tragic, and Liam and their boys, Daniel and Micheál, are devastated."

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