I’m still in shock about my reporting yesterday on the death of Heath Ledger. It’s not because I thought he was sexy or a Hollywood hunk. I don’t really have crushes on so called ‘movie stars’. I just felt incredibly sad at the news of this bright actor’s death.
I was following his film career quite closely since I came across him in the delightful 2001 A Knight’s Tale” opposite Paul Bettany.
Almost 24 hours have passed and I still am having difficulty writing anything. The reports are all over the media speculating about his death and its cause.
What I will report is that Michelle Williams, Ledger’s ex-fiancée and their two year old daughter Matilda flew from a Swedish film set to their Brooklyn home following the tragic news.
“You can’t begin to imagine the state she’s in,” an executive on the film told the Mail Online.
Larry Williams, Michelle’s father is reported to have said: “It has just broken everybody’s heart in my family. I think Tennyson got it right in the poem he described someone as having died at a young age but burning the candles at both ends. And oh what a beautiful flame he made. That was Heath.”
He also said Ledger was devoted to their daughter Matilda. And it’s true; you can see it in all the pictures of them together.
Instead of supplying links to articles full of speculation and gruesome pictures of Heath’s lifeless body on a stretcher, being wheeled into an ambulance, I thought I’d share with you a couple of sweet pictures of Matilda when she was a baby and her in a recent photo being cuddled by Heath Ledger, the bright star that is her father…
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