"This is terrible and I'm in shock," a close friend of Heath Ledger's has told Usmagazine.com. "But to tell you the truth... we saw it coming."
"Heath has gone though a rough road of trying to get sober."
"Things were very dark. His one joy was [his daughter] Matilda."
"Everything else was misery for him. Unfortunately he was too late in getting help."
(source)