Gwyneth Paltrow has received a letter from a woman who believes the actress may have inadvertently saved her life on the day of the attacks on New York nearly 10 years ago.
Basically, what happened was I had gone to a yoga class very early. I was on the way home and it was the morning of September 11 – not that I knew at the time what that meant – and a girl was jaywalking across the street and we kind of both stopped at the same time and waited a really long time.”
She said she and the woman did “this stop-start thing” for a time and began to laugh before the woman finally went on her way.
Ten years later I got a letter from her saying that she had been late for work and we had that thing and she went down to the Christopher Street station to catch her train to go down to the World Trade Center where she worked on the 77th floor of the South Tower and the train was just pulling out.
“So had we not had that interaction she feels like her life would've taken a much different course. She called it her ‘Sliding Doors moment'.
“It was an extraordinary story and all I could think about is all of the people who had experiences like that that day, but aren't able to reach out because it wasn't a recognizable person. She saw it was me so she was able to get me a message, but I think a lot of fates were changed that day obviously and I am very humbly happy to be a part in her story.”
via Reuters
Photo: Andrew Halpern
Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.
His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.
