Michelle Williams was in Sweden with 2-year-old daughter Matilda, when she got the news that Heath Ledger was found dead in New York. She got the plane to fly back to New York.

The actress, who split with Heath Ledger last September after three years, had just stepped off a plane in the country to start filming new movie Mammoth when she heard the news.

Her father Larry said in a statement: "I think Tennyson got it right in the poem when he described someone as having died at a young age but burning the candles at both ends - and oh, what a beautiful flame he made. That was Heath - what a beautiful flame he made and a great talent."

Michelle Williams met the actor on the set of 2005 film Brokeback Mountain and gave birth to Matilda Rose in October that year. Williams and Ledger had recently separated, with speculation that this lead to Heath becoming depressed.
There was no statement from William, but a close source told that she was devastated finding about Heath.



Publication date: 23 January 2008   

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