The Celebrity Truth

In one of her most revealing interviews since the death of Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams discusses losing her ex-fiance saying, “The more time that passes, the more you miss someone.”

During a chat with Newsweek, Williams burst into tears when asked how she’s coping since Ledger’s death due to an accidental overdose in January this year (2008).

“It’s so sad,” she explains.  “I guess it’s always changing.  What else can I say?

“I just wake up each day in a slightly different place—grief is like a moving river, so that’s what I mean by ‘it’s always changing’.  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. 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.”

Williams also vents her frustration at the paparazzi, threatening to quit Hollywood if she can’t shelter her and Ledger’s daughter, Matilda, from the cameras.

“It burns a fire inside of me, the shit that I’ve seen people do to get at me or my daughter… If it gets to the point where I can’t situate my life in a way that they stay away more, then I’ll drop a match on the thing.

“I’ll be sad. I like to act. It’s saved my life over and over again. It’s given me a sense of self-esteem, self-worth. I have this thing that I’m in love with—acting—and now it has this baggage.”

Read the full Newsweek interview with Michelle Williams here.

Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox.