Heath Ledger’s pals have come ahead with a recounting of his final days.
The Academy Award-winning actor was discovered lifeless in his New York City condo in January 2008 from an unintentional overdose of prescription drugs, together with painkillers, anti-nervousness remedy, and sleeping capsules.
The tragic occasion occurred shortly after he completed filming his acclaimed role as the Joker in The Dark Knight. After he wrapped capturing, the actor fell right into a deep state of unhappiness. Health’s pal and dialect coach Gerry Grennell, who lived and labored with the star in the final weeks of his life, mentioned it had begun when he began to work on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
While talking to People, Gerry recalled the actor being “exhausted, emotionally and physically” whereas battling a pneumonia-sort sickness. Even with taking sleeping capsules, the illness robbed him of relaxation.
“I would hear him wandering around the apartment, and I’d get up and say, ‘Come on, man, get back to bed, you have to work tomorrow,’” he remembered. “He said, ‘I can’t sleep, man.’”
Along with the lingering sickness, Heath was additionally combating being away from his daughter, Matilda, and former girlfriend, Michelle Williams, whom he had cut up with simply months earlier than the overdose.
“He missed his girl, he missed his family, he missed his little girl — he desperately wanted to see her and hold her and play with her,” he added. “He was desperately unhappy, desperately sad.”
The actor was conscious he wasn’t in state; nonetheless, he saved resorting to the capsules.
“He said, ‘I got to stop, it’s not helping, I’m not well, it’s making me feel more upset,’” Gerry mentioned. “It wasn’t helping with the relationship issues, it wasn’t helping with missing his kid, it wasn’t helping his sleeping — and he knew that.”
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During Spike TV’s I Am Heath Ledger documentary, his The Four Feathers co-star Djimon Hounsou additionally recalled his final moments with the actor.
He mentioned, “I ran into him in New York, hadn’t seen him for a couple of years, and [thought], ‘Wow, Heath has this change.’ But the way he has changed kind of got me a little concerned, you know. And I looked at him, I thought, ‘Wow,’ with a bit of concern, you know?”
The solely ones who keep in mind a much less gloomy Heath in his final days are his household, along with his sister Kate recalling him as a “happy boy” once they would communicate every single day.
She described their final telephone name as cheerful, recalling, “I was cooking dinner … and we were laughing. Then he said, ‘I’ve got to go, and I’ll call you at 8:30 in the morning,’ and that was it. That was our last conversation. I said ‘Okay, I love you.’ And that was it.”
