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LIAM NEESON TAKES EACH DAY AS IT COMES


By Liz Hodgson - Posted on 28 August 2009

Actor Liam Neeson has given his first interview since the death of his wife, Natasha Richardson, last March.
The 59-year-old Schindler's List star talked to television presenter Diane Sawyer to promote Five Minutes of Heaven, his film about the Northern Ireland troubles, which has just opened in the United States.
And he spoke about how he and sons Daniel, 13, and Micheal, 12, have been coping since Richardson's death at 45, after a skiing accident.
He said they are “taking each day as it comes.”
Neeson, who is filming The Clash of the Titans, said: “I'm still getting extraordinary condolence letters from American people that's deeply touching.”
He also paid tribute to Senator Edward Kennedy, who died of brain cancer, aged 77, on Wednesday.
“I met him a couple of times over the years and he wrote my family a very, very, beautiful, touching condolence letter when Natasha died earlier this year,” he went on.
“He was a special man. It's the end of an era.”
And he said that while he will always be proud of his Northern Irish roots, he is also glad to have an American passport.
“I've been living here for 20 years and America's been very, very good to me,” he said.
“I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.”