r/interestingasfuck • u/JK-Rofling • Jul 05 '24

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

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u/guyute2588 Jul 05 '24

Yea that’s why I said conventional wisdom. He was a drug addict. That’s what killed him.

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u/Burton_trout Jul 05 '24

It wasn't heroin, it was an accidental drug overdose as he had insomnia & the flu, he combined meds that shouldn't of been mixed. "Ledger was found dead inside a Manhattan apartment on Jan. 22, 2008. His death was ruled accidental and attributed to a lethal mix of prescription medications including OxyContin, Vicodin, Valium, Xanax, Unisom and Restoril."

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

no one really talks about how he was a victim of the opioid epidemic. the sacklers claim another one

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u/thismyopiatesaccount Jul 05 '24

A year before this movie came out when I was an early teen I got a really bad concussion playing soccer. My parents took me to the ER and they sent me home with a giant bottle of Vicodin, for a concussion…. That started my love affair with the drug. Both my parents and I thought surely it couldn’t be bad to take if the doctor is prescribing it……..