Separating Heath Ledger’s Rich Legacy From His Dark Fate

Regarding the notion that life can change in an instant, “I got kind of obsessed with that for awhile, before and after. I mean, a lot of things died. There’s a line from a book that gave me so much comfort and it said, ‘when you’ve truly lost everything, then at least you can become rich in loss.'”

Any sort of rationale, however, proved elusive.

“I’ve found meanings around the circumstance but the actual event itself, still doesn’t…I can’t find it,” Williams concluded. “I can’t find a meaning for it. I can find meanings in things and people and relationships that have sprung up and friendships that have strengthened, I can find a lot of meaning in that. But not in why.”

And nothing about that changed, for her or for anyone else who knew Ledger well. Williams told Porter magazine in 2016 that she was pretty adept at accepting things as they are, except when it comes to losing Ledger. “It just won’t ever be right,” she said, about raising her daughter without Matilda’s father.