A would-be casualty of the horrific 9/11 tragedy terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers 10 years ago has come forward to pay tribute to GWYNETH PALTROW who she says saved her life that fateful day.
Lara Lundstrom Clarke tells star news she was hurrying for work that day and jaywalked across the street to catch her train to work at Baseline Financial Services on the 77th floor of tower 2 where she was an account manager.
Luckily for her, Gwyneth was on her way home from yoga class and stepped on the brakes just as Clarke crossed the street.
“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,”
Gwyneth recalls.
Eventually, Paltrow waved at Clarke to go ahead and cross, but the several-minute delay made Clarke miss her train, and she had to catch the next one on the subway, making her late for work and subsequently far away from the attack on the towers where four of her co-workers were killed.
“If I had made that train, I would have been at my desk on the 77th floor of 2 World Trade Center,”
Clarke shudders.
Gwyneth is touched and thankful to have saved a life, inadvertent though it was.
“Ten years later, I got a letter from her saying that she had been late for work to catch her train to go down to the World Trade Center. It was an extraordinary story and all I could think about is all of the people who had experiences like that that day. I think a lot of fates were changed that day obviously and I am very humbly happy to be a part of her story.”
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