UNITED STATES.- The death of the actor of Heath Ledger, Has been one of the most tragic and commented on in the history of Hollywood cinema, as experts say he had a promising future and his career was almost at its peak.
At the age of 28, Heath Ledger was found dead on March 22, 2008, at his home in Manhattan, New York, and his death was due to excessive medication intake, as he had problems with catching sleep, according to some media reports.
But with Ledger’s biography as the journalist Janet Fife-Yeomans just released, there were more details on how the last days of the performer of The Jocker, Batman’s villain in “The Dark Night,” a film he left recorded before his death, were.
According to the author of the book called “Heat”, the acting bias he lived through for several years, were feasible for Ledger’s mood to decline, until he decided to give it a 360-degree turn. in his career and start from scratch.
People didn’t give me a chance to be anything other than the ‘blonde dyed gallant’, and I started to get bored, I felt like my career was getting out of hand and other people were making decisions. for me. So I chose to somehow destroy this race to start from scratch one again, ”says a paragraph in the book.
The play was conducted with interviews that Fife-Yeomans conducted with the family of the missing person, who were able to ascertain that the young man had a “tormented” life and could not mentally rest.
Kim Ledger, The actor’s father, made it clear to the American press that the death of his son was not suicide, although he acknowledged to the writer that the Oscar winner was guilty of having took the medicine, but it was with the intention of satisfying his illness.
No, he would never have done so (suicide). He was the one who put these pills in his system and no one is to blame, but he did it thinking he had it under control, as he told his sister, but, poor thing, it wasn’t like that. “, He expressed emphatically.
I couldn’t sleep
Michelle Williams, Who was Heath Ledger’s partner for three years, stated for the documentary “I Am Heath Ledger”, directed by Adrian Buitehuis and Derik Murray, That he had a great passion for his work and that Ledger’s mind did not rest.
“Ever since I started my relationship with him that it was hard for him to sleep, his mind kept thinking, and he always found him awake at night. Sometimes his body warned him that he had to stop, but he kept going, taking reassuring believing that with this he would be able to continue, and I always warned him of the dangers “, He said.
Heath met Michelle during the filming of “Secret on the Mountain” in 2004, where they formed a relationship and lived together, procreating a baby girl, but they separated in 2007.
At 3:36 p.m. on March 22, 2008, Heath Ledger was pronounced dead in his New York City apartment and according to media reports, the actor died of acute poisoning. by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine.