It's been almost 2 months since actor Heath Ledger passed away - accidentally overdosing on prescription meds. And for the first time, Michelle Williams - his ex fiance and mother of his daughter Matilda - speaks out. Also, another past love of his - Naomi Watts - has only kind things to say about him. Here are excerpts from Interview magazine:
Michelle says:
"For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He just had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning, turning - always turning. He had an uncontrollable energy. He buzzed. He would jump out of bed.
"I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, is how vulnerable he was. You can pick up on it in his performances, but it’s easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That’s who he was."
She remembers the time following Matilda's birth as the best of her life:
"The first six weeks of our daughter's Matilda's life was this incredibly insular, protected time.
"It was just he and I and her, living in our new house in Brooklyn. No nanny, no help - not really even any family. A couple of friends came through, but we were really committed to forming a bond just between the three of us. And then that bubble got broken with work.
"Brokeback Mountain was going to come out and the press stuff just started rearing up. But those six weeks were just blissful."
What Naomi, 39, had to say:
"His acting was just so touching, so connected in truth. I think he was just getting started.
"That's the deepest tragedy in terms of his work - he was just beginning to own it and embrace it."
It's still so sad.
Other stars interviewed: Ellen DeGeneres, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Sean Penn and Heath's I’m Not There director Todd Haynes.
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