Gwyneth Paltrow in court last week.

Gwyneth Paltrow in court last week.Credit:AP

Sanderson said he remembered a man in a Deer Valley Resort ski suit coming up afterward and instead of offering help,angrily blaming him for the collision.

The hour-long testimony at times brought Sanderson to tears,particularly when he appeared not to be able to focus or remember things — in a way that dovetailed his legal team’s claim that the crash permanently damaged his brain. They have also argued it hurt relationships with his loved ones,including his daughters.

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“Something’s wrong in my essence and what I bring to the table with them” since the crash,Sanderson said.

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The jury in Park City,Utah,has been presented back-to-back victim narratives. Paltrow testified on Friday that she was downhill of Sanderson,who she said hit her square in the back,then grunted and groaned as the collision caused the two to fall together on the mountain.

After four-and-a-half days of calling witnesses,Sanderson’s attorneys will now hand over the courtroom for Paltrow’s defence team to make their case. Paltrow’s lawyers are expected to call her two teenage children — Moses and Apple — and a ski instructor who was present on the day of the collision.

They have said they also plan to depose a slate of duelling medical experts,who are expected to undercut testimony from neurologists,radiologists,and psychologists hired by Sanderson’s team.

Craig Ramon,the man claiming to be the sole witness to the collision,testified last week that he saw Paltrow hit Sanderson.

Also last week,an email exchange between Sanderson and his daughters with the subject line,“I’m famous ... At what cost?” intrigued jurors and viewers following the trial online.

Plaintiff Terry Sanderson initially sought $US3.1 million in damages.

Plaintiff Terry Sanderson initially sought $US3.1 million in damages.Credit:AP

Lawyers have raised questions about a message from one of Sanderson’s daughters suggesting the entire collision could have been recorded on a GoPro helmet cam.

That daughter,Shae Herath,testified on Friday about an email in which she wrote “I also can’t believe this is all on GoPro” and sent along a link to a website. She and her father both testified the message didn’t contain any footage.

Herath said she sent it after speaking to her father and speculating that,on a crowded hill at a resort like Deer Valley,someone wearing a helmet cam must have heard a scream and turned their head to capture the pair veering down the hill.

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On Monday,Judge Kent Holmberg said online sleuths had found the link and that its contents would be included as evidence. The link didn’t contain GoPro footage. Instead,it was to a chat between members of Sanderson’s ski group,in which Ramon — the man claiming to be the crash’s sole eyewitness — said on the day of the crash that Paltrow had crashed into Sanderson.

“Terry was knocked out cold. Bad hit to the head!” Ramon wrote. “I did see the hit. Terry did not know his name.”

The exchange makes clear that Ramon thought Paltrow crashed into Sanderson years before any lawsuit was filed. It also shows Sanderson and those skiing with him knew the woman in the crash was Paltrow — the actor-turned-lifestyle influencer — that day.

Paltrow’s attorneys used Sanderson’s participation in the post-crash exchange to ask questions about the extent of his injuries and disorientation.

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