Vanessa Redgrave Sang at Her Daughter’s Bedside

Natasha Richardson’s mother, Vanessa Redgrave, sang an emotional reprise of the song she sang at her daughter’s first wedding in one of their last moments together. 

After Richardson’s husband Liam Neeson made the decision to remove her from life-support, Redgrave sang Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Edelweiss” from The Sound of Music as she sat by her daughter’s bed at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital.

Hours later Richardson, 45, died of internal cranial bleeding following a skiing accident on Monday.

Redgrave and Neeson were among the family and friends who gathered at the American Irish Historical Society in Manhattan on Friday for the late actress’ wake.

Our thoughts and prayers are with them following this terrible loss.

—Sasha Perl-Raver