The shocking death of Heath Ledger continues to haunt his longtime love and the mother of their little girl Matilda.
“My heart is broken,” Michelle Williams confessed at the time of former boyfriend Heath Ledger’s death in January 2008, at the age of 28. And now, almost three years after his accidental overdose on prescription medication, it still hasn’t 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. “I’ve found meanings around the circumstance, but the actual event itself … I still can’t find a meaning for it,” she says.
“I can find meaning in things and people and relationships that have sprung up and friendships that have strengthened [since Heath’s death] but not in why [he had to die].”
Even though she still thinks about him often, Michelle – who split from Perth-born Heath in 2007 after three years together – struggles to keep her memories of him from fading. In the year after his death, she still felt Heath’s presence near.
“In a strange way, I miss that year because all those possibilities that existed then are gone,” she explains. “It didn’t seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear behind a bush.”
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