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Michelle Williams: Please Respect Our Privacy

Michelle Williams: Please Respect Our Privacy

Michelle Williams has given her first statement since the death of her former companion Heath Ledger.

In a statement released by Heath’s rep, Michelle said, “Please respect our need to grieve privately. My heart is broken. I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father. All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day. His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time and we know that he is with us still. She will be brought up with the best memories of him.”

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Privacy starts with us @ 02/01/2008 at 10:56 pm

Michelle asked for privacy. it starts with us, the public, not reading, not clicking on Heath death’s threads on websites such as these and feeding the demand for photos and other reports - almost all speculative.

If each of us say, enough is enough, no more and avert our eyes, we do our bit to give this woman and her family, the privacy they need to grief in peace.

Yes, I’m clicking on this thread, making this statement, here. I won’t be doing it on any other website, on any other thread.

i can tell you she never loved heath leger , if she love him she never would have challenged heath to be drug tested and be free of drug in order for him to see his own daughter . how crul she must have been to deny him of his own child , i hope the guilt would haunt her for ever, i am so sad to think that poor guy never saw his own child just because she wanted to punish him or make him not to do drug , believe me with doing that it drove him even more into it, i hate her for not letting him see his daughter until the day he died.

I feel heartbroken for her. That was a beautiful and very fitting statement. I hope the media leave her and Matilda be. Michelle must of still had very strong feelings for Heath even though they had broken up.

zanessa_inlove @ 02/02/2008 at 12:59 am

i miss heath…. =(

anonymous @ 02/02/2008 at 1:11 am

in the video at the party heath is telling his friend i shouldn’t have been here now she is not going to let me see metild. did it work for not letting him see his child to think it might make him stop doing drugs, of course not it even drove more into it thinking all the time about his daughter and the fact that he can’t not see her, his live was meaningless. she is heart broken because of the guilt of what she did to him , not allowing him to see his daughter.

WTF are didi and tina still doing alive ?
no one that bitter deserves to live.. seriously.
go back to your mental home.

Silence_Is_golden @ 02/02/2008 at 9:22 am

That was beautiful, Michelle. I wanna cry again. My heart goes out to you both <3

It was a really touching statemant. I am so sorry for Michelle and even more for little Matilde. I pray for them. I can’t even imagine ow tough is it for Michelle to watch that little girl, who resembles her daddy so much.
Heath You are so missed here.

It is ture she is sad for her daughter . As a father of her child for him too. She and heath are friends not lovers they borke up over a year ago. They both have been seeing other people.

katia #48 First of all, that was obviously a heartfelt statement that Michelle made, and it was probably difficult for her to have make such an emotional statement to the millions of people she doesn’t even know, just because it is expected of her. She could have said nothing, but then she would have been accused of not caring, insensitive, which is how Jake is being judged.

My heart goes out to Michelle, Matilda, and especially Heath’s parents, who have lost a dear son.

Heath, it is reliably reported, was into heroin. And once you are into that you are a goner. Few ever kick that habit. It is a straight road right to the cemetery. Heath got there faster than most.

To JANNIE and DIDI

We get it b*tches….you hate Heath….so get the fcuk off his threads you c*u*n*t*s. And let the rest of us honour this beautiful man and magnificent actor in the way that he deserves.

Fancy making an appearance on every thread of someone you hate just to spew vitriol. Says ALOT about you as a person.

Matilda is so beautiful @ 02/02/2008 at 8:38 pm

#112 jannie

Hey B*TCH!! Why don’t you wait for the toxicology results before you start insinuating that Heath died of a heroin overdose.

Why are you guys so friggin bitter? Yes, Michelle isn’t the only person who will ever lose a loved one, but the woman is grieving. Show some respect. If you don’t like Heath, don’t read his news, and don’t come into his threads spewing vile comments. Sheesh!

Silly. I have nothing against Heath, or rather “had”. He was a superb actor. But the evidence that he was a heroin addict is overwhelming and comes from several sources. I don’t admire heroin addiction. Should I? And what does saying he was an addict have to do with being sorry he is dead? I am sorry he is dead. He was a heroin addict. Both statements are true.

Tim Robey in the UK Telegraphy says this about Ledger’s role in the movie Candy:

But when Ledger’s Dan gives into the bliss of a pure heroin high in Candy, or watches and waits in the car while his girlfriend (Abbie Cornish) sells her body to buy them their next hit, or slumps whimpering in the shower while his entire frame screams at him to fuel the addiction, the mixture of emotions that plays out on his face is extraordinarily frank and complicated. Ledger’s acting here is such a naked high-wire act it’s almost embarrassing, which is exactly as it should be. Dan has nothing to hide except his own weakness, which he hides abysmally, and no public image to project except the one that’s slightly less off his face than he typically is.

Far outclassing his perfectly adequate co-star – who, for reasons that puzzle me, won the greater share of acclaim for this – Ledger responds to every challenge of his part with conviction, sensitivity, sympathy, hilarious candour, frightening believability, and a spark that stays alight, deep down, even when the character becomes a virtual shell of himself. It’s hard not to be curious about what well of personal experience he may, or must, have tapped in this performance. But it’s even harder to deny, having seen it, that Ledger was an amazing actor.

One has to wonder if Ledger was acting in the movie or simply being himself. In short was he a heroin addict when he made the movie?

Okay.

First off, Michelle and Heath broke up in SEPTEMBER. Meaning just 5 months prior to his death, they broke up and while she was the one to call it off, how can you not love a person(not even a sliver at that) you were just head over heels for months before? Especially when he’s the father of your child?!

Plus there have been many reports circulating that despite trying to move on from each other, both Michelle & Heath were still wrecked over the break up, and two, Heath was very much friends with females with the same affinity he was friends with males– after all, he grew up in a house that was practically full of women. That’d answer as to why he had Mary-Kate on speed-dial(what, he didn’t have Michelle on speed dial, either?). That’d answer to why he was close to Helena Christensen, that’d explain why he was sighted with Gemma Ward and her model sister, Sophie. Even Sophie herself said Heath confessed to having a hard time getting over Michelle and not having Matilda around for the holidays. He grew up with females as confidantes, naturally and most likely, he had females as confidantes.

So I don’t understand why it is so easy for anyone to spat on the memory of a devoted father and actor, and especially one who was still having a hard time getting over the woman he thought would be his wife one day.

It’s heartbreaking to read about a death, even more so when you realize that person has left a young child behind. The panoramic effect of this death is because he was of celebrity status, yes, but he was also a person. I don’t think it’s fair of him to be reduced to such fodder just because he chose to choose acting as his craft. Also, I was impacted by his death, because despite having seen him only onscreen, I did feel a connection to Heath Ledger, despite how ridiculous it may seem.

Heath Ledger’s soul exhibited a great man, and a great actor and he was endearingly human. He was clearly shy, very intelligent and often held a side to him that seemed righteously rebellious. It’s glaringly obvious in his interviews, his acting and his statements about Michelle and Matilda, all of which were just a year ago in sheer perspective. He claimed Michelle as his soul mate, and I suppose nobody’s willing to note the fact Ledger’s clothing style and mannerisms changed dramatically after his breakup with Williams?

The man loved her and she loved him. For some reason, it didn’t work, but hey, not just love makes the world go around. If that were possible, divorce wouldn’t be the newest institution in America.

If he was a heroin accident, fine. Go ahead and assume. Don’t wait for the toxicology reports. Assume, destroy Ledger’s memory, mock him even though he’s never done a thing to you. Mock him just because he made more money than you. Mock him because he’s probably more handsome than Bobby Ray, your second cousin, twice-removed. Honestly, I’m kind of glad Ledger’s had a toke or two before. It means he’s f**king human, hell, we could have been friends.

I’m training to be a nurse and there have been reports left and right, and yet, people are saying he died of an illegal drug and such and that he was a heroin addict?

Then why were there no illegal drugs in the apartment? Heroin’s more powerful than any other weak drug so he’d have died of that, with a syringe stuck in his arm.

Why did he only have prescription pills? Why did he have sleeping pills? Why did he have walking pneumonia, why did he die? Well, his co-star said it beautifully: “You’re not supposed to take sleeping pills when taking other pills, not even antibotics.”

Ledger was ill with pneumonia, and you’re not even supposed to take sleeping pills when you’re afflicted with a respiratory disease. I’m willing to bet it was the lethal mix of those two drugs that killed him. Not heroin. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ledger tried a hit or two before he met Michelle, but it wasn’t heroin that killed him. It wasn’t cocaine that killed him. I doubt he was an addict, because if he had been, Michelle would have shot of there faster than a bat in hell especially if she was the one to break it off with Ledger. Rumors would have flown.

WHY NOW are they just coming out? Lindsay Lohan? We found out with that video of her. Kate Moss? Discriminating photos. Nicole Richie? Paris Hilton? Colin Farrell?

Why not Heath Ledger?

Why weren’t there reports or complaints of his not arriving to set on time? Why weren’t there acts of debauchery, like with River Phoenix, Brad Renfro(may he rest in peace) & Lindsay Lohan?
People are that low enough to make a quick buck, after all, look at the bloke trying to impersonate Kim Ledger. Just to say, ‘Yeah, Heath was an addict.”
Based on drug use he committed years before Matilda was born? LISTEN and read between the lines, and stop assuming. Stop gasping in shock and nodding in mindless agreement, going, “That’s it! I KNEW IT, because he acted like one in Candy, he’s got to be a heroin addict!”

Get. Real.

# 118 Hudson

BRAVO!!! I applaud your magnificent and eloquent post. I totally agree with all your comments.
I also have never met Heath and was surprised at how much his death affected me. His on screen performances were so brave, poignant and beautiful and they leave an indeliable mark on your soul when you see them. His characters are unforgettable and stay with you long after you leave the cinema.
The poster JANNIE seems to think that Heath’s performance as a heroin addict in Candy was so real that Jannie wonders whether Heath was acting in the movie or simply being himself. So with that logic, does that mean that Heath must have been gay in real life to be able to play a gay man in BBM so well?

Hudson, thankyou for a wonderful post. I really hope that Jannie reads it . Thankyou on behalf of all the fans of Heath Ledger.

He is now in God’s loving arms. RIP Heath.

JANNIE

I guess that must mean that Heath must have been gay in real life because he played a Ennis Del Mar in BBM so well.

Yeah that’s it….he’s not a good actor, he just plays himself in all his movies…. you fcuking idiot!!

You always contradict yourself. On the one hand you acknowledge that Heath is a brilliant actor…and then you say that because his performance in Candy was so good…he must be a heroin addict and he was just playing himself. Once again I say you’re a fcuking idiot.

Stay off Heath’s threads you fcuking little b*i*t*c*h. Yeah I know you’re a guy….you’re still a fcuking little cow.

God i love Heath so much. RIP HEATH.

Ivana, if you love him so much why do you want to rip him? That isn’t very nice, now, is it? Anyway your “love” is pointless since he don’t exist anymore. Or are you a necrophiliac? That I could believe. LOL. I am a bit surprised you didn’t follow his coffin to Australia and try to get buried along with him.
There is no logic in arguing that because he wasn’t gay when he played a gay cowboy, then he couldn’t have been taking heroin when he played a heroin addict. A sharper mind would realize that in one case he was acting and in the other he was doing what he also did when he wasn’t acting. Some people’s grasp of logic is pathetic.

PS Heath gave a superb performance in Brokeback. He should have gotten the Oscar. So don’t say I don’t appreciate his acting abilities.

Hudson. If you are going to be a nurse, I hope you manage more objectivity re your patients than you do Heath. And remember, dear, if you encounter a lifeless body (or one that seems so) call 911 at once and not some number you find on the cell phone beside the body. If the massagista had called 911 immediately, it is possible Heath could have been saved, or so I read.

jannie #122

wow, you are disgusting jannie. the first paragraph of your post has got to be one of the sickest, nastiest, most vicious posts i’ve ever read. you are sooo mean it’s incredible. i bet you are as ugly on the outside as you are on the inside.

anja: Ohhhh, my aren’t we SENSITIVE? So easily upset and bruised. Such a delicate little flower. I bet the word necrophiliac really sent you straight to your analyst, after you looked it up in the dictionary to know what it means. Didn’t you know that Indian wives used to (maybe still do) throw themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands? And nobody thinks that is sick; it is just a custom. What’s ugly about wanting to be buried alongside someone you love? I think that is touching and tender and sweet. I think you are silly and hypersensitive. Is pollyanna your middle name? LOL.

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