Heath Ledger ‘[Felt] Good About Dying Now’

While the media whips itself into a frenzy trying to deny Heath Ledger’s family’s assertion that his death was accidental, they have uncovered a recent radio interview in which the actor discussed his feelings about dying with respect to his now being a father to Matilda, two:

“I guess you’re forced into kind of respecting yourself more, you learn more about yourself through your child, I guess,” he told WJW FOX in Cleveland, Ohio.

“You also look at death differently.

“It’s like a catch 22. I feel good about dying now because I feel like I’m alive in her.

“But at the same time, you don’t want to die because you want to be around for the rest of her life.”

We are very much inclined to think that, while Ledger was often reported as “troubled” or dark, this interview is nothing more than a man talking about how parenthood has changed him.

Hopefully this won’t be the beginning of a comprehensive raking over of everything he ever said about dying, drugs or depression for some “evidence” that his death was a suicide, in some sort of rabid media version of the search for ‘the golden ticket’.