The shocking death of Heath Ledger continues to haunt his longtime love and the mother of their little girl Matilda.
โMy heart is broken,โ Michelle Williams confessed at the time of former boyfriend Heath Ledgerโs death in January 2008, at the age of 28. And now, almost three years after his accidental overdose on prescription medication, it still hasnโt healed.
In a tell-all interview with US talk show Nightline, a tearful Michelle opens up about the painful process of grief that she experiences anew every day. โIโve found meanings around the circumstance, but the actual event itselfโโฆ I still canโt find a meaning for it,โ she says.
โI can find meaning in things and people and relationships that have sprung up and friendships that have strengthened [since Heathโs death] but not in why [he had to die].โ
Even though she still thinks about him often, Michelle โ who split from Perth-born Heath in 2007 after three years together โ struggles to keep her memories of him from fading. In the year after his death, she still felt Heathโs presence near.
โIn a strange way, I miss that year because all those possibilities that existed then are gone,โ she explains. โIt didnโt seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear behind a bush.โ