Oh let me tell you… Kate Winslet said that during the fire at Richard Bransons necker island the first thing she thought of doing was putting on a bra. Kate said during cases of emergency people do the weirdest things. One thing kate did do was carry Richard Bransons 90 yer old mom downs the stairs and out of the house.
Richard was very grateful to Kate for saving his mom. Kate said she doesnt deserve the act of heroism but I think she does. One thing that came out of the whole event is that Kate is dating Richard’s nephew Ned.
“I ran into the bedroom and put on a bra,” she says. “In disastrous moments like that, you do the strangest things. I started to put on a bra and thought ‘No, that’s going to take me too long,’ so off came the bra, on came the t-shirt, I grabbed the children and I picked up Granny.”
Winslet, 36, is predictably modest about her role that night, when she and her children Mia, 10, and Joe, 7, escaped, along with 16 other guests from the eight-bedroom Great House on Necker, Branson’s private island in the British Virgin Islands.
“No, I didn’t save her life,” she says. “I carried her down the stairs is the truth of it.”
She explained, “We were all at the top of some very slippery stone steps and in the middle of a hurricane – it was so dramatic, there was lashing rain and it really did feel like being in a movie. In truth, I carried Eve Branson down the stairs.”
“I have to say Eve Branson is an extraordinary stoic, powerful lady and she could have totally made it out on her own,” she added. “I just helped that tiny little bit.”
