Michelle Williams: Heath Ledger was "vulnerable"

**mrs.v** · March 13th, 2008, 12:47 PM

Michelle Williams: Heath Ledger Was "Vulnerable"
Thursday March 13, 2008

Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams arrive to the 78th Annual Academy Awards on March 5, 2006 in Hollywood, California
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Michelle Williams recollects on her ex, Heath Ledger, in the April issue of Interview.
“I think the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, is how vulnerable he was,” she says of the actor, who died of a prescription drug overdose in NYC in January.
“You can pick it up on it in his performances, but it’s easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine,” she adds. “But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That’s who he was.”
Williams, 27, also talks about Ledger’s sleeping issues.
“For as long as I’d known him, he had bouts with insomnia,” she says. “He had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning turning — always turning.”
Williams — who has a daughter, Matilda, 2, with Ledger — adds, “He had a talent for everything that he put his mind to. He didn’t know limits."

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**cmmdee** · March 13th, 2008, 12:50 PM

Sad

**buttmunch** · March 13th, 2008, 01:01 PM

Erm, maybe he couldn't sleep because he was blowing rails for days on end.

**Bijoux** · March 13th, 2008, 01:10 PM

I'm surprised she's even talking about him.

**Grimmlok** · March 13th, 2008, 02:07 PM

he was so vulnerable he downed 6 prescription drugs to soothe his pain....

**nandarighi** · March 13th, 2008, 02:53 PM

sad

DitaPage* · March 13th, 2008, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by buttmunch

Erm, maybe he couldn't sleep because he was blowing rails for days on end.

Exactly, and she knows it.

**Laurent** · March 13th, 2008, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by Bijoux

I'm surprised she's even talking about him.

It's no skin off my teeth, but I'd just as soon she didn't. It feels cheap to me to tell stories of your dead ex in a mag.

**NicoleWasHere** · March 13th, 2008, 05:31 PM

I'm sorry, but who cares? If he was vunerable, it was probably because he was 100 different kinds of pills and drugs and whatnot. The man wanted to get sleep, I uderstand that. But if he was on something like coke or speed or something.... here's an idea, you should have gone to rehab!

I'm sorry, I needed to get that off my chest. To me, Heath Ledger just wasn't anything special. I may have said differently before (though I honestly can't remember), but as I've learned the things everyone else has..... Yeah, just let him rest. He was a drug addict, we don't need sob stories to tell us otherwise. We understand his ex misses him... Great. We understand the family misses him.... Great. Not everyone does.

**witchcurlgirl** · March 13th, 2008, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by Laurent

It's no skin off my teeth, but I'd just as soon she didn't. It feels cheap to me to tell stories of your dead ex in a mag.

I agree. It's poor taste.

**MissVenus** · March 13th, 2008, 08:12 PM

At least she did it in a tasteful way.. not all fake sobbing theatrics... she spoke quietly and articulately about him...

**southernbelle** · March 13th, 2008, 09:03 PM

I knew it would only be a matter of time before she was using this to get press. I know that a lot of people on here like her, but every account I've ever heard (and I've heard TONS being a huge Dawson's Creek fan back in the day) was that she is a stone cold bitch. I think the truly dignified thing to do in this situation, if she's asked about Heath, would be just not to comment on it.

**WhateverLolaWants** · March 13th, 2008, 09:24 PM

Vulnerable as a little baby dove... doing lots and lots of scrip drugs.

**sparkly** · March 13th, 2008, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by southernbelle

I knew it would only be a matter of time before she was using this to get press. I know that a lot of people on here like her, but every account I've ever heard (and I've heard TONS being a huge Dawson's Creek fan back in the day) was that she is a stone cold bitch. I think the truly dignified thing to do in this situation, if she's asked about Heath, would be just not to comment on it.

ITA, and stated something similar recently, in another thread. She's a terrific actress, but I'm not at all surprised that she's getting press, and will probably continue to do so until she reaches the fame level she wants.