Fergietakes ‘every minute as a blessing’ after she narrowly missed being killed in the 9/11 terror attacks on New York's Twin Towers, she has revealed.
The lesson she’s learned from avoiding the tragedy is: ’The minute you look too far forward, then you're missing now,’ she told Hello!, adding: ‘The minute you look back,... you can't go back. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.’
Fergie, full name Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, was in New York on 11th September 2001 because her Chances for Children charity’s office was on the 101st floor of the Twin Towers. The charity’s mascot, a little rag doll called Little Red, was on her desk during the attacks.
After the collapse of the Towers, ‘From 101 floors Little Red came down in her dress, a little tiny ragdoll, and she was found in the rubble. And CNN filmed it and said "oh a child's doll," and Larry King said 'no, that's Little Red, and she stands for children's rights all over the world.' From Little Red, I've gone on to build a lot of schools and taught many teachers.'
She has previously said ‘I was so worried they would think that a child was lost or buried in the rubble.’
Fergie has since pitched fiction about Little Red’s survival of 9/11 but sources toldMailOnline that American publishers haven’t been so keen to snap it up.
How uncanny that Fergie was so close to such a huge tragedy. Which reminds us of the so-called Kennedy Curse, which suggests that the American political dynasty is doomed, with several members of the clan succumbing to awfully tragic ends like assassinations, plane crashes, sucides, overdoses and heart attacks….
One way of debunking the myth is by approaching the facts: there are a lot of Kennedys. In some instances, they have been made targets because they are very rich and powerful. In other instances, they’re just rich enough to be really busy, so end up on more trains and planes and automobiles than most people. Globe-trotting might mean a lot of life is lived, but also, a lot of death is risked. On balance, the laws of probability means that, at some point, something’s gonna get you.
Fergie is still not afraid of taking risks, though, as she’s ‘thinking of taking up my helicopter license again. I think it’s a good challenge’.