Elas recordam Heath Ledger

Naomi Watts has opened up about her ex Heath Ledger saying the late actor was a ‘very special soul’ who ‘made a great impact on my life.’ The 43-year-old actress - who is currently promoting her movies Dream House and J Edgar - dated the Australian star for nearly two years. Their relationship ended in 2004 and he died four years later at the age of 28. Although they were dating different people at the time of his death Watts has fond memories of the Brokeback Mountain star.

‘Good times,’ Watts tells America’s More magazine when asked about Ledger. ‘We had a beautiful relationship, only a couple of years, but he was a man who was completely full of joy, and there was a lot of laughing and affection. He was really a very special soul and made a great impact on my life. And a great actor, but I know there was so much more to come. And it’s such a tragedy for his little daughter.’
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Ledger went on to date actress Michelle Williams, with whom he had a child, Matilda who turns six in October. Ironically, Watts - who has two sons with her boyfriend Liev Schreiber - lost her father when she was just seven.

Three years later, Michelle Williams has learned to live with the shocking 2008 overdose death of Heath Ledger, her ex boyfriend and dad to her daughter Matilda, now 5 -- but that doesn't mean she'll ever recover.

"Obviously, for me and for [Matilda], there's a hole in our life," the Blue Valentine actress, 30, tells the February issue of Marie Claire.

"Of course the natural inclination is to want to fill it and make it disappear," the star explains, "but what I've come to recently is that it's impossible. Nothing will fit in that hole because what we want back we can't get, which is this one person. I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy. I'm trying to be respectful of the absence. I'm not trying to fill it up. It is what it is."

Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008)