More details are coming out about what a mess Heath Ledger's life was in the months leading up to his death. The latest revelation: Ledger believed his ex-fiancee Michelle Williams was set to seek sole custody of their daughter Matilda, on the grounds that Heath's drug-taking made him a bad influence.
The dirt comes from Rebecca White, an alleged member of Ledger's "inner-circle." White told the Daily Mail:
Heath believed Michelle was going for sole custody.
She wanted nothing to do with him and many of his friends believed that in the last couple of weeks that really pushed him over the edge. He was getting more reckless than ever with cocaine and heroin.
His use of downers - sleeping pills and anti-anxiety pills and antidepressants- was also getting heavier because he needed them to sleep.
Heath was a very shy, insecure man. But in celebrity circles you need something to ground you, and for him that was being a father and the idea that Michelle might still take him back and they might still be a family.Even though he was seeing other women, there was one side of him that still wanted their relationship to work. But there was also the side that depended on drugs because he felt like a fish out of the water.
He was not the type to have killed himself. The way I hear it, he went out the night before, he was doing cocaine, he wasn't able to sleep, and the investigators think he woke up, didn't remember taking sleeping pills and then took what accidentally was an overdose.
White says the Ledger/Williams relationship was a disaster waiting to happen from the beginning:
It was this movie-set romance and Michelle got unexpectedly pregnant. It absolutely would not have lasted if she hadn't.He was still seeing other women. Heath was an Adonis and she was dowdy and not in his league - careerwise or looks-wise - and no one could understand why they got together. I knew Heath used drugs because the first time I met him, at Puff Daddy's house in Los Angeles, Heath asked Naomi [Campbell] for cocaine. At another party in Paris, Heath took at least six Ecstasy pills, popped them in his mouth all at once and swigged them with a bottle of champagne.
He was a partygoer and Michelle was quite straight. But when she got pregnant, Michelle was determined to have the baby. Heath wanted to do the right thing and stick by her.
Ledger's lifestyle finally got to be too much for the teetotaling Michelle:
Michelle kicked Heath out because he would be showing up all hours of the night with this band of hangers-on and doing drugs.Michelle started to talk about going for sole custody. She wanted to be responsible 100 per cent.
She felt he couldn't be responsible for the baby because he wasn't responsible for himself.
He got deeper and deeper into drugs as his fears of losing Matilda increased.
Heath was at least as messed-up as Pete Doherty it sounds like. The difference being that Heath managed to keep his excesses mostly private, while people like Doherty seem to deliberately make a public nuisance of themselves. Still, it has not been proven that Ledger died of a drug overdose. The latest is that his death may have been from natural causes. What "natural causes" means when you're already a drug addict who sleeps 2 hours a night is hazy at best. Maybe he had a weakened heart and didn't die directly from the sleeping pills...but what caused the weakened heart? There was nothing natural about that guy's death, I don't care what anyone says.
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