1.22.2008

OMGOMGOMG You Guys

The blogosphere and everyone's cell phones are abuzz with the news that Heath Ledger died this afternoon, of an apparent suicide [edit: or maybe not]. So sad. I feel awful for his 2-year-old daughter Matilda, who will never get a chance to know her dad. I was really surprised to read that he said the following in an interview in November:

I feel, in a sense, ready to die because you are living on in your child.

Ledger must have been troubled for a while to say something so odd and macabre like that - that's not usually what you hear from a new father. I'm sure Michelle Williams tried to help him but finally realized, as loved ones of addicts or the mentally ill eventually do, that no one could save him but himself.

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