Lara Lundstrom Clarke: How Gwyneth Paltrow Saved My Existence On 9/11

La, Calif. -- An opportunity encounter with Gwyneth Paltrow might have saved the existence of the lady on her behalf way around the world Trade Focus on the fateful morning of September 11, 2001. Lara Lundstrom Clarke, a then-24-year-old account manager at Baseline Financial Services (situated about the 77th floor of Tower 2), began her morning like every other workday. I began off by skating about the Hudson, got a great workout in, and was running late to operate, Lara told Package Hoover throughout a job interview on Access Hollywood Survive Friday. Jaywalking is very common, so there is an intersection in [the] West Village [and] I desired to get at the 1/9 train rapidly. And So I jaywalked across seventh Avenue, and the same time frame I had been doing that, a silver Mercedes Vehicle comes barreling lower, or, I ought to say driving lower like she was designed to I had been the one that is at the incorrect there and almost struck me together with her vehicle. It had been a vintage start/stop situation, it happened around three occasions, after which finally, both of us began laughing, she ongoing. I viewed to my left, and there is Gwyneth Paltrow driving. I couldnt believe things i was seeing, and she or he waved me across. I couldnt wait to inform my co-employees things i had experienced. As Lara made her method to the subway station, she was frustrated to determine the doorways from the train slam shut because the train disappeared lower the track. I literally skipped my train by seconds, she stated. It had been among individuals instances where I would be late, [so] a minimum of I'd a great story to inform. I had been type of annoyed, because i was under more pressure than normal at the office [to become] promptly. As she left the subway station, Lara first recognized something was dreadfully wrong like a female officer was yelling at individuals to escape from the towers. I viewed my shoulder and that i saw a gaping hole on the planet Trade Center. I had been just flabbergasted, she stated. I walked a couple of more blocks, because I saw stuff that nobody should ever see [and] peoples worst moments of the lives. Following a quick telephone call to her father to tell him she was okay, Laras attention switched to her buddies and co-employees already in the office. I had been really concerned about my buddies at Baseline, but at that time, our tower was not hit, she described. I known as among my close friends one that involves work late and told him I had been approaching to determine him, and literally walked two blocks north, so that as that happened all mobile phones went. When I viewed my shoulder, everybody begins running, and so i start running because I figure theres reached be another thing happening and that i viewed and thats once the second plane arrived to my office, she ongoing. Watching her office explode into flames introduced Lara to her knees as she grew to become sick to her stomach, fearing all her co-employees passed away. Within an interview using the Morton Report, Lara revealed shes been haunted by two recurring dreams because the terrorist attacks a nightmare by which she dies within the towers and the other by which she thanks the Oscar-winning beauty for possibly saving her existence. Basically had made that train I could have been inside my desk about the 77th floor of two World Trade center, she told TMR. Motivated by buddies because the 10-year anniversary from the 9/11 attacks approaches, Lara authored instructions to Gwyneth, telling her of the fateful seventh Avenue encounter. Stephen Huvane, Gwyneths publicist, told TMR the actress truly does recall the encounter with Lara, and it is deeply moved through the story.Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.