14 DAY TRIAL // After Heath Ledger's shocking death, Michelle Williams, his former partner and the mother of his child, shut the world out and insisted on not talking to anyone about their romance. The Golden Globe-winning actress is now opening up to GQ.
Williams is promoting her award-winning role in “My Week with Marilyn,” which would explain the sultry spread she agreed to do for the latest issue of the mag – and which, for the obvious reasons, we can't include here.
In the interview, she bares her soul about the love of her life, Heath, saying that, while they had been broken up at the time of his death, she never really lost hope they'd get back together again.
What they had, the connection they shared was too special to have simply ended when they broke up.
“That would make me way too sad to answer,” Michelle says when asked whether she still imagines herself and Heath ending up together, as tears well up in her eyes.
“I said it would make me too sad to answer but it’s also… one of my favorite things to imagine. It’s actually one of my favorite places to visit,” she concedes.
Michelle says she tried dating after Heath's passing, but it was all for the wrong reasons, because she believed her daughter Matilda needed siblings.
“Because I really wanted, and I really expected or imagined, that Matilda would have siblings that were close to her age. I wanted that for her. But I couldn’t make that happen,” the actress says.
“And now that she’s 6 that isn’t even a possibility anymore. So something that was making me feel impatient, that’s been removed. For whatever reason, that’s not our luck, or our path,” Michelle adds.
She still has the memories of Heath that she will cherish, something his daughter, Matilda, doesn't have because she was too young to remember.
“You know, as hard as certain things have been for me, it’s been harder thinking about how things will be for her. I have a lot of things that she doesn’t, and some of what I have I can give to her – the memories that I have, the objects that I have, the physical reminders that I have, the stories. But she won’t really have any that are solely…” Williams says, leaving the sentence hanging.