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Michelle Williams made a rare remark about how she and ex Heath LedgerThe 19-year-old daughter, Matilda, keeps his memory alive.
During the Monday 19 May, episode of the Podcast “Armchair Expert”host Dax Shepard Speaked with Williams, 44, about the lagging impact wholesal and said: “I feel obliged to say that I knew him a little when he became sober, and I don’t know that I once fell in love with someone so quickly.”
Shepard gratefully expressed for the time he spent with Ledger. “This is one of the most special guys I have ever met, and I can feel the weight of the world in a very special way that broke my heart,” he added. “I was very, very sad and I thought he was just that special.”
Williams became emotional about Shepard’s praise for ledger. ‘[He was] So special, so special, “she whispered.” Thank goodness there is Matilda. “When Shepard Ledger described as” this heart here that just leaks everywhere “, Williams heartily agreed and said,” Yes, an incredible sensitivity. “
After a meeting on a set of Brokeback Mountain Williams and Ledger started dating in 2004. Matilda was born in October 2005.
“We had a baby. But I think it might be a good thing to be young is that you don’t have that much life experience that you can contextualize things,” added Williams to the podcast episode of Monday. “So you really just go with the power.”

The couple finally called it in October 2007 and three months later Ledger died at the age of 28 because of a casual overdose for drugs. It would take years before Williams made a remark about raising Matilda as a single mother.
“In all honesty, for almost all the other, I feel that I am a believer not to fight to fight circumstances, accept where you are and where you have been. In almost all the senses, but one,” she told Porter Magazine in 2016. “I would be able to go all that line of thinking.
Williams got married to musician Phil Elverum in 2018. Less than a year later, the duo separated and US Weekly confirmed in December 2019 that Williams was engaged to director Thomas Kail. They made the decision in 2020 and welcomed three children together.
As Williams’ oldest parent has become, the actress has thought about the close band of Matlida with actor Jeremy Strong.
‘[Matilda] Did not awake with her father, but she grew up with her Jeremy, “Williams said Variety in May 2022. “[She] was changed by [Strong’s] The ability to play as if his life depended on it, because hers did that. Jeremy was serious enough to keep the weight of the broken heart of a child and sensitive enough to understand how she can approach her through play and games and foolishness. “