Heath Ledger has landed on the cover of the new Vanity Fair with a feature on his final days and where he was at mentally. A few of his friends, family, and mentors have spoken out about his mental health and stuff he was dealing with leading up to his death.
On problems with Michelle Williams: "Because he's a much nicer person than I am, he really thought he could do the right thing. He was trying to be decent and graceful, give [Williams] whatever she wanted--the house, every f*cking thing. But once it started going south, it went very quickly. He was overwhelmed by lawyers, and there were more and more of them, as if they were breeding. I said, 'This is bullsh*t. Heath, just end it. Get out--it's bad. You've got to just walk away from it.' The stakes kept going up. He wouldn't listen to any of us. Heath was devoted to keeping his daughter safe and did everything he could to stay together with Michelle even though he slowly started to unravel. He was always blaming himself, asking, 'What did I do wrong?'" - Terry Gilliam (mentor)
How chronic insomnia may have led to his death: "Everyone has a different view of how he passed away. From my perspective, and knowing him as well as I did, and being around him as much as I was, it was a combination of exhaustion, sleeping medication ... and perhaps the aftereffects of the flu. I guess his body just stopped breathing." - Gerry Grennell (vocal coach)
Why Ledger tried to tear down his career: "He was a private person, and he didn't want to share his personal history with the press. It just wasn't up for sale. He wasn't motivated by money or stardom, but by the respect of his peers, and for people to walk out of a movie theater after they'd seen something that he’d worked on and say, 'Wow, he really disappeared into that character.' He was striving to become an 'illusionist,' as he called it, able to create characters that weren’t there." - Steven Alexander (agent)
His pure devotion for his career: "He would arrive in the morning completely knackered. By the end of the day he was beaming, glowing with energy. It was like everything was put into the work, because that was the joy; that's what he loved to do. The words were just pouring out. It was like he was channeling." - Terry Gilliam
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Hmm... so the media have run out of dead people to exploit - so they're going back and retroactively exploiting people that died that long ago. smh.
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