Heath Ledger recently gave an interview to WJW FOX in Cleveland where he said, "I feel good about dying because I feel alive through her." He was talking about his young daughter Matilda.
Ledger was found dead in a New York apartment at 3:35 PM ET today. He was just 28.
Filed under: R.I.P., Heath Ledger
31. what is on his wrist?? is it a bruise? and i agree it's dispicable that tmz is noting every single minute detail in huge separate posts, but obviously theyre doing something right on their part if we're reading it and worse commenting on it. Seems to me it's only encouraging it... at the same time, it could be worse... it is pretty "tabloid" of tmz to say words like prophetic and everything.. and the users comment about today being the 22nd and all that is kinda eerie, but it could be worse... im surprised they didn't make a poll voting whether we think it was out of prophetic meaning or total coincidence... shrug.
Posted at 7:44PM on Jan 22nd 2008 by skitter
32. There is nothing wrong with people being curious as to why he died. Evidently, it was due to drugs.
The gab tabs don't "out" celebs for their heroin addictions. That's crossing the Hollywood Code of Ethics line, which is a paradoxical concept, to be sure. It's too bad a tent of protection was erected around Heath Ledger's substance abuse problems. Of course it's always convenient, after the fact (an accident, death, or suicide), to claim that the celebrity demanded "privacy" during his life. How much better to say this than to admit that the agents and P.R. people who brokered the celebrity cared more about protecting his reputation than they cared about him.
Posted at 7:45PM on Jan 22nd 2008 by Stop:It'sGreen
33. To DirtySouth: It was an accidental overdose, not a suicide...get your facts straight before you post about how he had the world by the balls.....
Posted at 8:04PM on Jan 22nd 2008 by kt38kim
34. This is such a shock, it's incredibly sad and perhaps the REAL truth will be told soon enough soo you people can stop talking about what you don't know.. And I don't know about you but that video ends with him saying "but at the same hand you don't want to die because you wanna be around for the rest of her life" Soo can someone tell me how that video means he was predicting suicide??
Posted at 8:18PM on Jan 22nd 2008 by Jo
35. GOD!!! HE'S SO WIRED.
Posted at 8:52PM on Jan 22nd 2008 by THAT\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'S IT!!!!!
36. You guys need to stop being so sensitive. Heath Ledger is dead. This is an unbelievable tragedy and he's like the River Phoenix of this generation. A promising, outstanding actor who was on the cusp of being a mega star.. tragically loses his life too soon.
That's a huge story.
Posted at 9:06PM on Jan 22nd 2008 by John Sawyer
37. SOOOOOO sad. Such a waste....
Posted at 9:14PM on Jan 22nd 2008 by longhairedbohemian
38. This was not one of his best interviews and its going to be making its rounds (with its rumors about his behavior) on the internet. These comments could have been innocent but now they look suspicious. I feel bad for his family.
Posted at 9:14PM on Jan 22nd 2008 by Jen
39. He seems sooo tired in that interview, him rubbing his eyes every few minutes. Sad :[
Posted at 9:20PM on Jan 22nd 2008 by robin
40. He was my alter ego, my personal James Dean. I'm so sorry, it's very sad.
Next saturday night we will make a "brindis" in his memory.
From Chile, SudAmerica,
Andros, Rodrigo Vives.
41. did u see the bruise on his arm? looks like a mark from possibly shooting up...heard he was in rehab for heroin
Posted at 2:46AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by cpscsoccer13
42. this site is pathetic - there is like a milliard of post about heath, get over it! people die everyday, thousands die in africa every days or so. bunch of t ards.
Posted at 4:21AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by jimstr
43. I couldn't bear to have journalists and people who have never met me before ask questions about my private life and assume to know what I am like as a person. Heath was obviously uncomfortable talking about this, he fidgets a lot - and at the end of the day he's there to promote the movie - but as usual all the media want to do is pry into people's private lives so that we, the public, get our fix of voyeurism for yet another day. It was the ultimate indignity for poor Heath's body to be wheeled out in front of so many flashbulbs. I could have cried for him that that was the last image of him the world will see.
For true actors such as Heath, who want nothing to do with the obsessive celebrity society we have become (sites such as TMZ should be shut down as far as I'm concerned) life must have been very difficult at times.
Posted at 9:08AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Bee
44. way too sad. its so awful to hear of someone dying way too soon especially leaving a small child behind that won't get to enjoy her daddy
Posted at 10:18AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by josie
45. wow that is really shocking. i didnt follow mr.ledgers career to thoroughly but i have seen him in movies and on televison. really unexpected and sad.
Posted at 1:37PM on Jan 23rd 2008 by sabrina
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