Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger’s last days - from his friends

In Case You Didn't Know | by Roberta | Mon, Jun 29

Mon, Jun 29 Friends say that Ledger agreed to join the Batman franchise because it would be such a long shot that it would give him an excuse to turn down other offers. Ledger reportedly had a pay-or-play deal for Dark Knight, meaning that he’d receive a paycheck no matter what, so he took creative liber...

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4 Months Ago, Tracy Pepey from iVillage's Daily Blabber says (in Heath Ledger's Friends Talk About His Last Days) Cinematographer Nicola Pecorini, who was working with Heath on his final film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, says Heath had taken himself off illicit drugs and alcohol.

Sources say the insomnia was a result of the souring of Heath's personal life with Michelle Williams.

And OH NO!! says (in Heath Ledger for Vanity Fair August 2009) • Terry Gilliam—Ledger’s friend and mentor, and the director of Doctor Parnassus—agrees with Pecorini that the romance between Ledger and Williams began to unravel during the Oscar campaign for Brokeback Mountain. “The whole machinery started growing up around them,” Gilliam says. “...