For the first time since Heath Ledger’s shocking death from an accidental drug overdose, Michelle Williams opens up to ABC’s ‘Nightline,’ about losing her former partner and the father of her child, saying that she’s still trying to make sense of it.
“I’ve found meaning around the circumstance, but the actual event itself still doesn’t… I can’t find meaning for it,” she said. “I can find meanings in things and people and relationships that have sprung up and friendships that have strengthened. I can find a lot of meaning in that, but not in way.”
On hand to promote her new film, ‘Blue Valentine,’ Michelle confessed that a part of her still misses 2008, the year Heath was found dead in his New York apartment.
“In a strange way, I miss that year, because all those possibilities that existed then are gone. It didn’t seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear behind a bush.”
Finding comfort in Joan Didion’s book ‘The Year of Magical Thinking,’ the actress admitted that the year was filled with magical fantasies that she’s sad to be moving away from. “I got obsessed with that for a while, the before and after. A lot of things died… There’s a line from a book that gave me so much comfort and it said, ‘When you’ve truly lost everything, then at least you can become rich in loss.’”
Watch Michelle’s honest and touching interview with ‘Nightline’ below:
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