It’s been 10 months since the tragic death of Heath Ledger, and sadly but understandably so, Michelle Williams is still heartbroken.
In a recent interview with Newsweek, the mother of Ledger’s three-year-old daughter, Matilda, burst into tears at the sheer mention of his name. “It’s so sad,” the 28-year-old told the magazine of Ledger’s death – ruled an accidental overdose of prescription drugs – in late January.
So how is the former Dawson’s Creek star holding up? “I guess it’s always changing,” she said. “What else can I say? I just wake up each day in a slightly different place – grief is like a moving river.”
The two slpit before Ledger’s death but always remained very close. “It’s a strange thing to say, because I’m at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse,” she said of her grief. “It’s just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. In some ways it gets worse. That’s what I would say.”
The actress says she is currently taking a year off to focus on her daughter. “I don’t want to work while she’s in school,” Williams (who’s been linked to director Spike Jonze) told Newsweek. “I want her to have a routine. I want the plainest, simplest, most ordinary, habituated routine possible.”
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