Michelle Williams and Naomi Watts Paying Tributes to Heath Ledger

Thu, 13 March 2008 04:53:56 ET

The late actor's former fiancee to the late actor and his closest friends have spoke out about their relationships with him for the first time in a magazine.

When Heath Ledger reportedly died because of drug overdose in New York City on January 22, 2008, his friends didn't give any comments about him. Recently, his closest pals, including Michelle Williams and Naomi Watts decided to share their impression of the late actor as a way to give him a tribute. To Interview magazine, Williams said, "For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He just had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning, turning - always turning."

While the mother of his daughter talking about Ledger's insomnia, Watts who had a special relationship with the star for two years tended to talk about his acting skill. She said, "His acting was just so touching, so connected in truth. I think he was just getting started." In different way of giving a tribute, his agent Steve Alexander described the star of "10 Things I Hate About You" as a Rolling Stone. In the meantime, the nominee of Best Actor Oscar in 2006 Philip Seymour Hoffman described him as the one whose body was always in motion.

Previously, on January 25, 2008, his family members had posted their memorial tributes. Their steps were followed by some actors, including Daniel Day-Lewis, who gave out statements expressing their sorrow towards Ledger's death. Even, Williams has given her first public statement by expressing her heartbreak.

Ledger's life ended when he was found unconscious at his fourth-floor loft apartment, at 421 Broome Street, in SoHo, Mathattan. On February 6, 2008, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York has announced his cause of death based on the toxicology analysis. The result showed that the actor died of an acute drugs intoxication.

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