The actor made a candid confession about what happened behind-the-scenes of his new film Blacklight.
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It seems the star of the Taken franchise fell in love with a taken woman.
It all began when Liam Neeson spent several months in Melbourne in 2020 filming his latest action movie Blacklight.
While there, the actor revealed he fell in love with the country and one of its residents in particular, despite Australia being in stage-four lockdown at the time due to the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, he told Sunrise hosts David Koch and Natalie Barr, “I loved Melbourne.
I loved our Australian crew, they are fantastic workers. Every department was superb. They were their own people, do you know what I mean? They had a great sense of humor.”
Neeson then added with a smile, “I made a couple of pals…I fell in love, but she was taken.” Both hosts admitted to being “intrigued” by that confession, and Koch even implored viewers, “If you know the lady involved, go to the Facebook page. Give us some hints!”
This admission is particularly notable as the actor has not dated much or really addressed his love life publicly since the death of his wife Natasha Richardson 13 years ago.
Richardson passed away at the age of 45 in 2009 from an epidural hematoma, two days after hitting her head during a beginner’s skiing lesson in Quebec, Canada.
In 2014, Neeson spoke with Anderson Cooper about his late wife’s sudden death, explaining that doctors had told him she was brain dead following the accident. “She was on life support…I went in to her and I told her I loved her.
I said, ‘Sweetie, you’re not coming back from this, you’ve banged your head,’” he explained. “She and I had made a pact, if any of us got into a vegetative state that we’d pull the plug.
That was my immediate thought, ‘Okay, these tubes have to go. She’s gone.’” The couple, who married in 1994, shared two sons, Micheál and Daniel. In September 2010, Neeson began dating British publicist Freya St Johnston, but the pair ended their relationship two years later.
