Michelle Williams Emotionally Remembers the Late Heath Ledger 17 Years After His Passing
Michelle Williams is remembering the late Heath Ledger.
The 44-year-old actress, who has a 19-year-old daughter Matilda with the late actor, who sadly died in 2008, spoke out on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast about their relationship. He passed away several months after the two had broken up.
“I feel obligated to say that I knew him a little bit when he was getting sober, and I don’t know that I’ve ever fallen in love with somebody so quickly,” Dax Shepard began.
“This is one of the most special boys I’ve ever met, and I can feel the weight of the world on him in a very special way that kind of broke my heart. I was very, very sad, and I thought he was just so special,” he continued.
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Michelle could be heard getting emotional, replying: “So special, so special, thank god there’s Matilda.”
Dax described the late actor as “this heart here that’s just leaking out everywhere,” to which Michelle replied, “Yeah, an incredible sensitivity.”
“We had a baby. But I suppose maybe it’s a good thing about being young is that you don’t have so much life experience that you can contextualize things,” she said of that time period.
“So you’re really just going with the flow.”
Michelle shares three children with her partner Tony Kail, and spoke about her kids.
“Kids are such great life checkers,” she said. “They force you to put your best self in front of them. You can’t abdicate your life and your work and your own desires, but you do have to put them in check and figure out which master you’re going to serve.”
“You can’t be equally good at [everything] at the exact same time, and you have to allow for that give and take, but then also replenish the other things,” she explained.
“If you have a big period of being at home, you need to go back to what you’ve left unattended and put some light over there. So I think it’s just this constant back and forth, but making sure that you don’t leave one of them unattended for too long,” she went on to say.
Michelle was just spotted sporting a baby bump while filming for this project.