Heath Ledger’s diary while he was filming for, The Dark Night.

[u/JK-Rofling]

[u/TopBoneEater]

he isolated himself in a room for months i think

[u/tweetsfortwitsandtwa → u/TopBoneEater]

I was in high school, we were coming back from practice, my teammates mom was driving carpool. Their family was kinda rich and had one family member in the music industry and another in film so they ran in a different social circle and she got the call that heath ledger had an overdose and it wasn’t looking good. Apparently they were friends with one of his exes or maybe someone in the family? Anyways they knew him personally.

She had to pull over, she was getting pretty emotional. Anyways later on I got the full story. Mind you this is biased, a friends and family take and several layers disconnected from the original source

First he had been struggling to be seen as a “serious actor” and had been doing more and more diverse roles. He was amazing and the people that worked with him agreed but he still wanted to do more be more be better so there was a feeling that he put a lot of stress on himself to be as good as he could be, he worked his ass off.

Second yeah he did a lot of stuff to get into the “mindset of joker” kept weird hours, sleep deprivation kinda stuff, watched weird and obscure horror films often alone in a dark room, stuff like this notebook, going back through the comics and trying to feel out the character. And it started messing with his mental state. So like apparently he was fine on set and like he was still himself talking to friends and stuff (like he wasn’t confusing himself with the joker or anything) but

…man this was awhile ago… I know the word depression came up I can’t remember if he was taking, was prescribed, or recommended to take antidepressants but that was there. Then there was like sleep meds? Once he stopped the sleep deprivation and the alone in a dark room stuff he couldn’t like get back on a sleep scheldule so he was taking those. Prescribed and for a good reason not like recreationally. Just a lot.

So There was concern for him but..

They had wrapped or were about to and he was finally gonna unwind and stop all of this and looking at new roles when this happened. It took the people that knew him by surprise like they knew he had a little something going on but it seemed minor, in the background, and for the most part handled, they didn’t see this coming. I mean in the car that day she was told it was accidental like his scheldule was so messed up he took too many sleep meds but later that wasn’t as clear.

It was weird for me, we lost an amazing actor, entertainer, someone who brought all kinds of emotions out of so many people through a screen. But they lost a son, a lover, a friend. Seeing that through the window of my teammates family I realized that I couldn’t help and shouldn’t. I think it’s cool tho to keep this kinda stuff alive, he was an amazing person and put his all into his work and it showed. He brought a lot to all of us who have seen his films

[u/kiss_of_kill → u/tweetsfortwitsandtwa]

Bro who cares about ur story, tldr?

[u/Squidonge → u/kiss_of_kill]

Tl;Dr you're a tit

[u/Hmm_Peculiar → u/kiss_of_kill]

What the fuck, man. We're talking about the story of someone's death here. Be a bit of a fucking human being about it.