Gwyneth Paltrow testifies in ski collision trial that she initially believed accident was a sexual assault

Gwyneth Paltrow testified she thought she was being sexually assaulted erstwhile a skier rammed into her backmost during a 2016 travel to Deer Valley Resort.

The Goop founder described nan infinitesimal she claims retired optometrist Terry Sanderson collided pinch her, and really she was "extremely upset."

"I was confused astatine first, and I didn’t cognize precisely what was happening. It’s a very unusual point to beryllium happening connected a skis slope," she recalled. "I froze, and I would opportunity I sewage very upset a mates seconds later."

Gwyneth Paltrow testified Friday successful nan civilian proceedings regarding a 2016 skis collision that allegedly near retired optometrist Terry Sanderson severely injured. She has been sued for $300,000. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)

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Gwyneth Paltrow sits successful tribunal connected Friday. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)

Paltrow explained why she initially thought she mightiness person been getting sexually assaulted, during questioning by Sanderson's lawyer.

"So that was a speedy thought that went done my caput erstwhile I was trying to reconcile what was happening," Paltrow explained. "Two skis came betwixt my skis forcing my legs isolated and past a assemblage pressed against me."

"My encephalon was trying to make consciousness of what is happening," she added. "I thought is this a applicable joke? Is personification doing thing perverted? My mind was going very, very quickly and my mind was trying to ascertain what happened."

Paltrow noted it felt for illustration they were "spooning" erstwhile nan 2 fell to nan ground. She besides emphasized that she's not claiming she was sexually assaulted, that's conscionable "what went done [her] mind erstwhile it happened."

Terry Sanderson has attended nan proceedings passim nan week. (Rick Bowmer)

Gwyneth Paltrow sits successful tribunal adjacent to her lawyer, Steve Owens. (Jeff Swinger)

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Paltrow, 50, has been sued for $300,000 by retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, who claims nan character skied into him from down and near him severely injured astatine Utah's Deer Valley Resort successful 2016.

The assemblage will besides perceive from Paltrow's now-husband Brad Falchuk and her children; Apple, 18 and Moses, 16.

Before Paltrow took nan stand, Sanderson's girl Shae Hareth testified astir her father's changes successful behaviour pursuing nan skis collision.

She claimed he gets easy distracted and recalled an "awful experience" that damaged Sanderson's narration pinch his granddaughter.

Shae Herath, nan girl of Terry Sanderson, testified successful tribunal Friday. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)

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Paltrow and Sanderson are successful litigation complete a 2016 skis collision that near nan retired optometrist severely injured, according to a 2019 suit obtained by Fox News Digital. Much of nan grounds truthful acold comes from doctors speaking connected Sanderson's aesculapian information anterior to and pursuing nan collision.

Sanderson accused nan Goop laminitis of skiing disconnected aft nan accident, which near him pinch a "permanent traumatic encephalon injury, 4 surgery ribs, pain, suffering, nonaccomplishment of enjoyment of life," on pinch affectional distress and disfigurement, according to nan lawsuit.

Sanderson primitively sued nan actress, Deer Valley Resort and an coach for $3.1 cardinal and claimed he was a unfortunate of a hit-and-run. A judge dismissed nan claim, and Deer Valley Resort and nan coach were removed from nan lawsuit.

Paltrow has maintained that Sanderson really skied into her and claims she stuck astir until fixed nan OK to time off by a Deer Valley Resort skis instructor. The 50-year-old character besides said successful her countersuit that Sanderson antecedently admitted he didn't person a clear representation of nan accident.

The character is seeking attorneys' fees and $1.

A wide position of nan skis slopes astatine Utah's Deer Valley Resort. (Getty Images)

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