UNITED STATES. – The actor’s death from Heath Ledger, It was 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 close to the top.
At the age of 28, Heath Ledger was found dead on March 22, 2008 at his home in Manhattan, New York, and the death was due to the excessive intake of medications, as he had trouble reconciling sleep, according to some media outlets. .
But with Ledger’s biography that the journalist Janet Fife-Yeomans just released, there were more details about the last days of The Jocker, the Batman villain in “The Dark Night,” a film he shot before his death.
According to the author of the book called “Heat,” the acting bias that lived on for years was achievable for Ledger’s mood to diminish, until he decided to turn his career 360 degrees and start all over.
People didn’t give me the chance to be anything other than the ‘painted blonde hunk’, and I got bored, I felt my career got out of hand and other people were making decisions for me. So I somehow chose to destroy that race to start a new one, “says a paragraph of the book.
The work was carried out with interviews Fife-Yeomans conducted with the families of the missing, who were able to verify that the young man had a “tormented” life and could not rest mentally.
Kim Ledger, the actor’s father, made it clear to the American press that his son’s death was not a suicide, although he acknowledged to the writer that the Oscar winner was guilty of taking the drug, but that it was intended to treat his illness. saturate.
No, I never would (have committed suicide). He was the one who put those pills in his system and no one is to blame, but he thought he had it under control, as he explained to his sister, but, poor thing, it wasn’t like that. “he said sharply.
I could not sleep
Michelle Williams, who was Heath Ledger’s partner for three years, testified for the documentary “I Am Heath Ledger”, directed by Adrian Buitehuis and Derik Murraythat he had a great passion for his job and that Ledger’s mind was not resting.
“Ever since I started my relationship with him that it was hard for him to sleep, his mind didn’t stop thinking, and he always found him awake at night. That could go on, and I’ve always warned him of the dangers. “, said.
Heath met Michelle during the filming of “Secret in the Mountain,” in 2004, where they developed a relationship and moved in together, had a girl, but they broke up in 2007.
At 3:36 p.m. on March 22, 2008, Heath Ledger was pronounced dead in his New York apartment and, according to media reports, the actor died of acute poisoning from the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine.