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Why is it that with all the drugs and dramas of Amy Winehouse (who admitedly is talented), Britney, Mishca, Paris (all not that talented really) they survive to grace another cover but someone like Heath Ledger who I have never heard of taking drugs, actually dies.
It's all sounding rather a lot like River Phoenix. Someone young, talented, and much more troubled than they actually let on. The reports say that he was unconscious but still alive when the cleaner and the massage person found him. Wild reports are flying around of packets and packets of pills, research for a role playing a drug addict, secret saddness, years of hidden drug addiction, troubled nights from his role as the Dark Knight in the new Batman movie....
It is actually very easy to overdose on sleeping tablets. Even these days when medicine is more heavily regulated and instructions much more clear, its easy enough to take one too many when its four in the morning and you still can't sleep. This is not a personal diatribe btw (or a personal recollection of my own transgressions), my grandmother died when my mum was three. She took three or four of her sleeping tablets instead of one when she couldn't sleep. She was working nights and had two kids under three and just couldn't sleep. Took a couple too many pills and her poor little body couldn't handle it. So maybe it was the same kind of thing with Heath Ledger. He was just really really tired and wanted to get some sleep.
Whatever happened, he was a really really bloody good actor and it sucks that he isn't around anymore. I hope the people in his life get some peace and time to themselves to cope with what has happened, but sadly I seriously doubt that they will. Worst of all I can't say that I won't be devouring every morsel of information that I can find on 'Oh No They Didn't" etc, It's just too sad and wierd not to want to know.
It's all sounding rather a lot like River Phoenix. Someone young, talented, and much more troubled than they actually let on. The reports say that he was unconscious but still alive when the cleaner and the massage person found him. Wild reports are flying around of packets and packets of pills, research for a role playing a drug addict, secret saddness, years of hidden drug addiction, troubled nights from his role as the Dark Knight in the new Batman movie....
It is actually very easy to overdose on sleeping tablets. Even these days when medicine is more heavily regulated and instructions much more clear, its easy enough to take one too many when its four in the morning and you still can't sleep. This is not a personal diatribe btw (or a personal recollection of my own transgressions), my grandmother died when my mum was three. She took three or four of her sleeping tablets instead of one when she couldn't sleep. She was working nights and had two kids under three and just couldn't sleep. Took a couple too many pills and her poor little body couldn't handle it. So maybe it was the same kind of thing with Heath Ledger. He was just really really tired and wanted to get some sleep.
Whatever happened, he was a really really bloody good actor and it sucks that he isn't around anymore. I hope the people in his life get some peace and time to themselves to cope with what has happened, but sadly I seriously doubt that they will. Worst of all I can't say that I won't be devouring every morsel of information that I can find on 'Oh No They Didn't" etc, It's just too sad and wierd not to want to know.