TRAGIC Heath Ledger - who had become a regular user of cocaine and heroin in the past year, reportedly got so high on drugs, his then girlfriend Michelle Williams was forced to boot him out of their Brooklyn home. "She couldn't take it any more. Heath wouldn't show up for two to three days, and all of a sudden he would show up on her doorstep, an absolute wreck," a source close to the 28-year-old 'Brokeback Mountain' star has claimed.
"He was partying, doing drugs. She didn't like the company he was keeping. She gave him an ultimatum. . . . and threatened to get custody of the girl. He wanted to make it work, but it was this scene he was wrapped up in. Was he an addict? Yeah."
The claims come as US television shows "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider" prepare to air a video of Ledger snorting cocaine with a rolled-up bill at the Chateau Marmont.
According to reports, the video was taped without Ledger's knowledge following the SAG Awards two years ago. Ledger is heard on tape saying, "I'm gonna get so much sh*t from my girlfriend. We have a baby together, Matilda." Matilda was 3-months-old at the time.
A pal who claims to have snorted cocaine with Ledger says the actor's sudden rise to fame had him constantly exposed to drugs. As the pressures of work grew, he couldn't say no, and then refused to get help. "He was hanging out with a bad crowd," the pal tells the New York post. "He wasn't cleaning up his act. He was making absolutely no effort . . . He was really into heroin. He wasn't sleeping or communicating with anyone."
Ledger was found dead in his Downtown Manhattan apartment last week along with six kinds of prescription pills.
Authorities believe he overdosed, although the cause of death won't be official until toxicology tests are finished.
"At the end of the day this is really tragic," the source said. "He was a nice guy. I first met him in 2002. He was scared about the whole Hollywood thing . . . I don't think he realized how crazy it was going to be. So many people wanted a piece of him."
But, the pal adds, things got really bad when heroin entered the picture. "Once you go down that road, then it gets really scary. Because all of sudden you shoot up, you take heroin, then you do a line of cocaine and then you take sleeping pills. Look at River Phoenix, he died exactly the same way."
Ledger's rep was unavailable for comment.
By Owen Williams, Jan 31 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy
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