Google “heath ledger depression” and many many sites show up with the same info.
http://www.popcrunch.com/heath-ledger-depression-worried-jake-gyllenhaal-michelle-williams/
Anybody? Mixing 6 prescription drugs together? Anybody?
I don’t think so…
Funny how the same sympathy never arose for Anna Nicole Smith when she foolishly over medicated and killed herself.
Oooh, a “source” told the “Mail Online” the day of his death when people still believed that he was shacking up with Mary Kate Olson? Color me convinced. It comes from The Popcrunch Show (“A Celebrity Tabloid”) so it must be true.
Uh, I take 5 different prescription drugs myself. I used to take 7. I’m not a druggie.
I felt sorry for her, but what’s she got to do with Heath Ledger?
One more thing about this piece. It was written on the day Heath died, when multiple rumors, almost all of which proved to be false, were swirling around.
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Why didn’t this information make it into the mainstream media, who were looking for anything interesting just as much as the tabloids? Everyone was digging, digging, digging, from “The Popcrunch Show” to Dateline NBC. If any part of that could have been proven or corroborated, it would have been EVERYWHERE, online, on TV, on radio, in newspapers, in magazines, everyfrickinwhere. But it’s not. Why is that, I wonder? Maybe because it’s bullshit that no one else took seriously even though everyone wanted every piece of dirt they could find on Ledger?
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This was explosive stuff, if true. Why didn’t it make news back when it “happened”? Heath was just as famous back then as he was when he died. Beyond Brokeback Mountain and his Academy Award nomination, the man was playing THE JOKER. Everybody knows who The Joker is. It would have made good copy for any media outlet, again ranging from the sleaziest tabloid to the entertainment shows to the entertainment news programs.
Though Ledger was no Britney Spears as far as publicity, he had his own paparazzi brigade (check out some of the pictures on the MySpace page) who followed him around. How do you think the media showed up so quickly the day he died? Because there were paparazzi hanging around his apartment and saw the excitement of police cars and ambulances. I’m sure they often got very bored and this was their lucky day. If he had been driven to a rehab center by his wife (who, remember, is famous in her own right) don’t you think someone would have noticed?
Even if, say, they had managed to evade their own paparazzi, isn’t it logical to assume that every major rehab facility has its own paparazzi brigade, just hoping that they’ll get some shots of a famous person checking in? Exclusive shots are worth big bucks. That’s why they’re paparazzi. And yet, there was no hint of all this activity until the day he died, and nothing about it was heard from again.
Nothing about it makes sense. There’s no corroborating evidence that any of that happened, that it was anything other than something someone made up to get some money out of the Mail Online, hardly a step above a tabloid itself.
Anna Nicole was a trainwreck. Renfro was a trainwreck. Britney Spears is a trainwreck. ANS and BR’s deaths were not a surprise, and BS’s won’t be. Ledger, by most accounts, was a fairly hoopy frood, so his death was a surprise, and there’s plenty of reason to ask why it happened.
ETA: And what Equipoise said. And as long as I’ve got the edit window open, earlier people were saying how thought Renfro was on Home Improvement. I don’t know from HI, but I keep thinking it was Renfro in American History X, and that he was the one arrested for liberating lobsters from the tank in a seafood joint. Both of those were Edward Furlong. :dubious:
I said “his wife” but I know that he and Michelle Williams weren’t legally married. I missed the edit window.
One more thing before I go…
For anyone who wonders why Heath Ledger would merit a paparazzi brigade even though his profile wasn’t all that high (as high as Britney Spears), keep in mind that he was a HUGE star in Australia, much much bigger there than he was here even. He’d often have run-ins with the paps in Australia (a couple of them claimed he spit on them, but it was never proven), and they had it in for him. Most of the paparazzi photos that exist were probably taken for the Australian media/tabloids. If any of them had caught Ledger doing something he shouldn’t, or anything juicy, they would have had a field day.
Who is Brad Renfro?
I wasn’t going to spend more than two minutes finding you a source for something that you could find yourself. Like I said, google “Heath Ledger depression” and you will see how many stories pop up.
You act like we’re talking about your brother or something. No one is sullying Ledger’s good name. When someone dies the way he did, questions get asked, and people come up with conclusions based on what they’ve read. Saying that he “MIGHT” have had a drug problem hardly warrants a freakout on your part.
Yeah, I just spend two minutes Googling “Heath Ledger depression” and they all seem to be quoting that original “story,” and most (not all) are crap tabloid sites. So, ok, the story did “get around” but that’s not exactly what I was talking about. Heath “found in Mary Kate Olson’s apartment” made the rounds too. Take a line from that story, “His one joy was Matilda” and search. I got 6,560 results, all quoting and speculating from that same story.
No, he wasn’t my brother, but he was a decent guy who doesn’t deserve this kind of shit.
I have no interest in sullying his name, but there are reports out there about his drug use. Now, the I know NY Post is a tabloid, but I haven’t seen a retraction of this story , and it’s pretty damning.
It would be pretty damning if it wasn’t a) on Page Six, the extra-tabloidy part of the Post and b) quoted an “unnamed source”.
If you’re not willing to put your name to celebrity gossip, it’s not real.
I don’t disagree, except even Page Six reports are subject to libel and slander laws and can be challenged. It seems to me that something this explicit would bring challenges from his family if it was completely false.
Yeah actually, you do. You have a big interest.
Another unnamed source. Spare me. I wonder how much the “member of Ledger’s entourage” got paid. A quick scan shows that the writer of the article already gets several details about the “coke” video wrong.
And why should a “retraction” be needed for something so stupid? And it’s only “damning” if you look to the tabloids for the truth. This isn’t Men In Black.
I have no vested interest in him NOT being a drug addict. If I were presented with clear, irrefutable evidence I’ll be the first to say, damn, I was wrong, what a shame, but tabloid stories are not going to be what convinces me. Someone who actually knew and was close to Heath, someone willing to forgo anonymity, would be the first step. Not that it would matter in any way anyway. No illegal drugs were found in his system or in his apartment.
Or, on Preview, what Justin_Bailey said.
From the same article:
“[Entertainment Tonight & The Insider] would drop plans to air a video of Ledger snorting cocaine with a rolled-up bill at the Chateau Marmont.”
I’ve seen the video, and it does **not **show Ledger snorting coke. It shows a guy sitting across the table from him snorting coke.
Maybe they’ve been too busy with memorials and funerals and, you know, mourning, to focus on something as scorned as PageSix.
Eyebrows 0f Doom, thank you.
Drew Carey has a good story about this kind of thing is in his book Dirty Jokes and Beer.
He lists some of the various stories that tabloid people told about him over the years including the various crash diets he went on or just “friends” saying he lost a bunch of weight and now he feels fantastic.
There was even one story about him holding court at some restaurant entertaining the other diners like crazy and then leaving $500 tips for all the wait staff.
He then goes on to say it’s all bullshit, even all the nice stuff.
I can only remember having to take a prescription drug ONCE in my life. It was high-powered Tylenol I needed because I had a cracked cranium.
5 prescription drugs at one time? What the heck’s wrong with you? Seriously? 
My parents take several perscription drugs, somewhere approaching five, for various ailments.
Not that it’s any of your business or anything, but I have diabetes and am hypothyroid. I used to have high blood pressure and took medications for that, but a change in diet solved that problem so he took me off two of the medications.