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Heath Ledger has been found dead in his SoHo apartment in New York City.
He was found in his bed by his housekeeper at 3:35 PM ET, reportedly surrounded by pills.
The 28-year-old actor has a 2-year-old daughter, Matilda Rose, with former fiancee Michelle Williams.
Just this past weekend, Heath was in London filming the Terry Gilliam-directed movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The last pictures of Heath were taken this past Saturday–he was dressed in a clown costume.
The Australian-born actor was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 for his role as gay cowboy Ennis in Brokeback Mountain. He also finished filming his role as The Joker in the new Batman film, The Dark Knight.
UPDATE 1: According to The New York Times, “At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said. The masseuse was let in to the home by a housekeeper, who then knocked on the door of Mr. Ledger’s bedroom. When no one answered, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened the bedroom and found Mr. Ledger unconscious. They shook him, but he did not respond. They immediately called the authorities. The police said they did not suspect foul play. Officials said pills were found near the body.”
UPDATE 2: Heath was found in his bed, naked and face down. There were prescription bottles left uncovered near the deceased–prescription sleeping medication.
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We’re all born to die. Some deaths are expected, others take us by surprise. This is an example of that. A young man, a young father, a promising career… it seems that he left way too early. My prayers are with the family, especially his little girl
why??? when someone takes their own life, it’s obvious life hurts but he had so much to live for. my prayers are with his family and my heart goes out to his daughter.. and heath himself, i can only imagine how bad he must’ve felt to do what he did.
NOOOOOO, please NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
PLEASE
o my GOD!
still waiting for someone to say that this is not true…..
OMFG. NO WAY, REST IN PEACE MAN, LOVE YOU!!!!!!
OMG, no heath =( , he was the best actor in the world , i love him ,
SO SO SAD.
all his fansites are down btw
This is just too sad. What a terrible waste! :(
I heard on Fox News that during an interview he did for In Touch! Magazine very recently that he was “bothered” by the Joker. Heath has received a lot of praise for this role but it may very well be something that contributed to his death.
Heath said the Joker was something “demonic” because the Joker truly, honestly, does not care about anyone. He’s been a great actor and we’ve seen the depths that he can go in characters, but maybe as the Joker it went too far and he was unable to recover.
Such a tragic loss.
ok so now theyre saying he didn’t take drug/sleeping pill overdose, he actually died of pneumonia. wonder what the truth is. they are gonna spin this for weeks
I just can’t….
I think his fan sites are down because people are flooding them!
R.I.P Heath. You are already and always will be greatly missed!
RIP … I hope you will look out for your daughter from above!
you will be missed by a lot of fans!
this is soooooooo sad and shocking.
RIP Heath.
Poor cutie Mathilda.
The levels of over-the-counter drugs in the US are different than the levels in other countries.
Keep that in mind when you make pronouncements in your attempts to “solve” the death of Heath Ledger.
We’ll know when we know. His autopsy isn’t even until tomorrow.
My condolences to Michelle and their daughter Mathilda and Heath Ledger’s family. I hope they get all the love and support they need in the coming days and years. My heart goes out to little Mathilda who is just 2 years of age.
Heath Ledger had an overdose of sleeping pills but there is no evidence that Heath was into drugs. Clearly he was depressed.
In Magnolia’s excellent post, it seems fame and achievement can trigger depression. My guess is that this depression may have contributed to the break up of his marriage to Michelle, and not been caused by the break up.
omg!!!im shoked!!he was a great actor!!
i so wanna cry , this is a shock for me T_T…………
Heath you were the best!
since the first movie i saw and you acted in it to the last ones you made T_T
i will miss youuuu :(
Rest in Peace
So sad~~~
One of his last interviews he talks about not being able to sleep and taking sleeping pills *which didn’t work”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/movies/moviesspecial/04lyal.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
I wonder what the comments pages will be like when Britney, Amy Wino or Pamela Anderson Dies.
majority of it will be ‘thank god’ and ‘good riddance’ and full of p*ss taking, probably.
On here, nearly 500 RIP comments for heath in two hours, that shows how well liked he was. nobody had a bad word to say about him. this proves that there isn’t a God because people who are wrecklessly stupid and deserve to die, often dont. All the good ones like Heath go first, with the exception of Anna Nicole Smith the f*cking b*tch whos habitual substance abuse during pregnancy made her daughter bog-eyed and retarded.she deserved to die and the way the media worshipped her afterwards was so moronic and hypocritical since they bashed regularly before her death.
I am shocked. I adored Heath Ledger, thought he was one of the better actors in HW. So sad.
Condolences to his family and friends. :-(
My heart literally dropped when I saw this. It’s so unfortunate that this had to happen-he was such a great talent, an actor who had a great career ahead of him. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends, and Michelle and his daughter Mathilda. This is so sad. So, so sad. :(
I didn’t know him, obviously, but my heart goes out to him. I feel that I might cry, too. Not to be unsympathetic, but this shows us that no matter how much money we have, it doesn’t make up happy. It is what’s on the inside that counts, corny and lame, but true. He must have been feeling something that not even the tabloids know about.
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