Heath Ledger is dead

RIP Heath Ledger

He was a great actor.

RIP Heath Ledger and Brad Renfro

Nicholson Misquoted on Ledger Warning


Hollywood veteran Jack Nicholson insists stories claiming he warned Heath Ledger about the dangers of sleeping pills are not true - stating he never even met the tragic star. The Departed legend was asked how he felt about the Brokeback Mountain actor's death last month by photographers in London and he was quoted as saying, "I told him so." However, the 70-year-old star, whose role as the Joker in Batman was reprised by Ledger in The Dark Knight just before his death, states he was misquoted and was simply warning everyone against using that brand of pills. He says, "What I actually said was, 'I warned them.' I had a bad experience with those sleeping pills (that Ledger apparently took). I took one of these pills and had just gone to sleep when I had a phone call to go to an emergency at a friend's house. I jumped up, went outside and some time later woke up on the driveway. It sounds amusing but I live in the mountains and it could of been worse. I didn't know Heath Ledger, but I know those pills." Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment last month at the age of 28. An autopsy failed to reveal the cause of death, and police are still awaiting the results of a toxicology test to asses if sleeping pills found in his apartment played a part in his death.

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Now that 2-year-old Matilda Rose is left to grow up without her doting dad, the responsibility to keep Heath Ledger's memory alive falls partly on her famous godfather, Jake Gyllenhaal.

Jake, Heath and Matilda's mom Michelle Williams, bonded on the set of their Academy Award-winning hit Brokeback Mountain, for which they all received Oscar nominations.

"Heath and I are best friends now — making the film was very intense for us," said Jake, 27, who played Heath's sheep-herding love interest in the Blockbuster hit. He described being Matilda's godfather as "an amazing honor."

"I remember being in rehearsal, and the two of them had googly eyes with each other," he has said of the romance between Matilda's parents.



After Matilda's birth in October 2005, Heath described loving every minute of fatherhood. "It's a pleasure waking up to your daughter," the self-described Mr. Mom said. "I love it. I actually adore it."

Needless to say, Heath lavished gifts on his only child. He regularly brought Matilda to the high-end SoHo store Calypso Kids where he spoiled the little tyke, buying her life-size stuffed animals and anything she wanted, especially ice cream, a saleswoman told the New York Post.

Despite her unimaginable loss, Matilda should expect to have an extended family in the Gyllenhaals. Jake's sister, Maggie, befriended Heath during the filming of their upcoming Batman sequel The Dark Knight. Maggie, 30, and Peter Saarsgard, whose daughter, Ramona, is one year younger than Matilda, also own a Brooklyn brownstone nine blocks away — a mere five minutes on foot — from the Hoyt Street townhouse Heath and Michelle formerly shared.

Meanwhile, at 3 a.m. this morning Matilda's godmother Busy Philipps (left), who Michelle befriended on the set of Dawson's Creek, arrived at the 30-year-old's Boerum Hill home in anticipation of Matilda and her mom's return from Sweden.

While information about Heath's will is still unclear, Matilda stands to inherit millions. He was paid well over $3 million per role and sold his Australian home in a beachside suburb of Sydney for a reported $7 million.

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His death is going to be so used as a marketing tool for the movie

I find it weird and freaky

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Michelle Williams and their daughter Matilda Rose were not included in his will but his parents will take care of them