The story continues to develop:
An autopsy on Heath Ledger will be “completed sometime in the the early afternoon” Wednesday, Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the Chief Medical Examiner's office, tells Usmagazine.com. Ledger’s body was brought out of the New York apartment in a black body bag and loaded into the Medical Examiner’s truck at 6:30 p.m. tonight. “We’re conducting an investigation,” she said...signs pointed to a suicide and that Ledger was found “naked and unconscious on a bed, with sleeping pills — both prescription medication and nonprescription — on a night table.” [us weekly]News of Heath Ledger's death has shaken friends of the actor.
"This is terrible and I'm in shock," a close friend of Ledger's tells Usmagazine.com. "But to tell you the truth... we saw it coming."
"Heath has gone though a rough road of trying to get sober," the source tells Us.
"Things were very dark," the source says. "His one joy was Matilda." Matilda is his 2-year-old daughter with Michelle Williams. They split in September.
"Everything else was misery for him," adds the source. "Unfortunately he was too late in getting help." [us weekly]
MICHELLE Williams' father Larry has told The Daily Telegraph online from his Sydney base today that Heath Ledger's death has left his family broken hearted.
He described the 28-year-old as a "great talent" who was devoted to his two-year-old daughter Matilda.
"I think Tennyson got it right in the poem when 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, what a beautiful flame he made and a great talent."
"My heart goes out to everyone in his family and my family."
The worst aspect of Ledger's untimely death was that Matilda will grow up without knowing her father, Williams said.
"The saddest thing is his daughter whom he just loved dearly."
He declined to comment about Ledger's state of mind in the lead up to his death. [daily telegraph/au]
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There's so much to say. Too much to say. He must have been in a very bad place to leave his little girl behind without her father. But this is the first I've heard about his struggle to "get sober"--was that common knowledge, that he had some sort of drug and/or alcohol problem?
this wasn't common knowledge. there was no inkling of this man ever having a drinking/drug problem. no public drunkenness, no situations at clubs or parties where he was high, no DUIs, nothing, nada, zip, zilch. totally under the radar. he was always so quiet and even after getting with michelle williams and having a kid and living in brooklyn, you never heard a bad thing about him.
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I also have never heard anything in reference to drugs or alcohol in association with Heath Ledger. When I called my brother, who works in Hollywood, he was stunned. Jamie worked with HL in Italy on the movie "Casanova"; he said HL was a fun, easygoing guy who was enjoying his life. To go from that to this... it's stunning and sad and a waste of talent. My heart goes out to that poor little girl who will grow up not knowing her father. Sigh.
Well, I guess he must've been going to great lengths to keep his problems under wraps. I s'pose that's a testament to his acting skills. And yet, some people seemed to know something--that one friend said they "saw it coming."
if they saw it coming, why didn't they intervene?
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