One in all your most beloved movies is “10 Issues I Hate About You.” You’ve talked about your friendship with Heath Ledger and the way his passing affected you. However once you assume again to that point, do you ever surprise, “What saved that from taking place to me?” So, I used to be 13, I got here from a tough childhood, with out entering into element, and I acquired saved someway. I acquired placed on Broadway, found off the road, and I used to be all of the sudden an actor with none impetus to be one prior. I usually assume, had that not occurred to me, I’d be useless—little doubt about it. I’m an addict, at the moment sober—I might’ve been much less caring about conserving myself alive. Appearing is my purpose to stay now. It’s my children and appearing, however appearing was my purpose to stay for a very very long time, and nonetheless is.
When Heath handed away, I knew why he handed away. I had determined a very long time in the past to by no means do arduous medicine. Heath wasn’t suicidal—Heath had a drug drawback. As I become older, it will get more durable to cope with Heath’s demise as a result of I take into consideration how he would’ve been immediately, that he died wildly younger. It will get extra tragic, in a approach, that he’s not right here.
Medication are low hanging fruit on this enterprise—and alcohol. They’re simple to do, and I don’t assume Heath thought, “Oh, if I do medicine, I’m going to die.” Nobody thinks that, however I want I had been extra vocal about my worries and disapproval of him doing these issues. However you simply aren’t within the second—you don’t wish to be a buzzkill or a bummer. Yeah, there are regrets I’ve about it, however I do know for a indisputable fact that Heath tried to repair himself proper earlier than he died. He understood he had an issue that was harmful—he got here to grasp that. It took a very very long time, but it surely was too late.
It provides me pause, not as a result of it might have occurred to me—it couldn’t have occurred to me—however as a result of it occurred to my pal who was an expensive man who didn’t wish to die, had a younger daughter and needed to stay and was lively. It’s a cautionary story—I don’t assume Heath ever needed to be a cautionary story. He simply needed to be an ideal actor and he was solely simply starting.
Brittany Murphy is one other one. I’ve hardly ever ever met, to at the present time, somebody as lively as Brittany Murphy. She was a shining instance of spirit and soul. For that to be worn out, it might probably occur to anybody. You bought to watch out.
