How Heath Ledger’s Daughter Matilda Has Enjoyed a Private Life With Mom Michelle Williams — E! Online
But first and foremost, Williams had a child to raise-as a working mom, a single mom and, no small obstacle, as a famous mom.
Though his films, of which Ledger made enough to suit any movie-watching mood, gave him cinematic immortality, it’s Matilda who remains the human embodiment of Ledger’s legacy. So Williams quickly had to get used to public interest in her and her daughter increasing exponentially after they were on their own.
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And somehow, she has since managed to give Matilda a quiet, private life while only getting more successful, breaking free of any lingering WB-drama attachment and cementing her own reputation as one of the finest actresses of her generation as a star of film, TV and the stage, as well as becoming a longtime face of Louis Vuitton. She’s since been nominated for three more Oscars and has won two Golden Globes-including one last year, plus a SAG Award and a 2019 Emmy, for her turn as musical theater legend Gwen Verdon in Fosse/Verdon.
“It’s a very hard thing for me to navigate,” Williams told Vanity Fair in 2018, referring to the necessary public side of her life, “because my instinct is to keep my life very, very private. But I also need and want certain things out of my career that demand I assume a more public voice.”
But she also trusts her instincts, which is probably why she managed to get married, divorced, engaged and pregnant with her second child without the public knowing about any of those steps along the way until she decided to share.
Taking a break from the spotlight and getting Matilda out of the city certainly helped her pick up the pieces in those early days-while staying off social media entirely has helped keep her daughter off the radar ever since.
“We moved-we left Brooklyn and lived in the country for six years because it was an intolerable state of existence,” Williams told the New York Post in June 2016, referring to the constant paparazzi escort in the days after Ledger’s death. “I wish I was more of a go-getter,” the Montana native added. “I just sort of sit and wait for things to come my way.”
She had to navigate the usual New York-L.A. gauntlet for work, but her habit of choosing only the projects that called to her obviously served her well.
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Only in 2014 did Williams sell the Boerum Hill townhouse that she and Ledger moved into together in 2005, reportedly getting $8.8 million -17 percent over ask-for the six-bedroom home. According to Curbed New York, she purchased a 114-year-old Colonial-style mansion-a $2.5 million, eight-bedroom fixer-upper-in Ditmas Park in 2015, the local real estate blogs hanging on every step of the renovation process.
And choosing the East Coast over the West Coast is always a smart move if you want to be relatively left alone. While the Big Apple, Brooklyn included, isn’t exactly devoid of Hollywood-type activity, Los Angeles remains the biggest fish bowl.
Williams , “If you feel like people are watching you, it’s impossible to have an authentic experience of being alive. There’s a performative aspect and a guardedness, and that’s just death. I don’t know how to live like that, and I don’t know how to give a life to my child like that.”
She previously called Kristen Bell, who was instrumental in getting a number of media outlets to stop publishing unauthorized photos of celebrities’ children, her “personal hero.” (E! News was among the outlets that implemented the protocol accordingly.)
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“[The picture ban] has changed our lives,” Williams gushed to the Post. “I email [Bell] once every couple of months and say, ‘I owe you everything. My daughter’s happiness is in your hands.’ Talk about a go-getter!”
But while Williams is very much a Hollywood fixture when awards season rolls around-her most recent Oscar nomination coming for her turn in Manchester by the Sea as a wife and mom who’s still grieving a horrible tragedy but is determined to put one foot in front of the other every day-she has also protected Matilda by keeping a tight lid on her own private life. And the lid has grown so tight in recent years that you now need to run it under hot water to open it.
After Ledger died she had serious yet low-key relationships with filmmaker Spike Jonze and Jason Segelthat both proved too logistically difficult, and in 2015 she was linked to novelist Jonathan Safran-Foer, who at least lived in Brooklyn.
“The timing was impossible. I thought falling in love again was the only thing that was going to save me from the pain,” Williams told Vogue in 2009 after she and Jonze had split up. “This erroneous idea: It just makes things more complicated.”
She had been dating a businessman named Andrew Youmans, so it was something of a surprise when she revealed she was getting married in the September 2018 issue of Vanity Fair. And by the time the cover story was published online that July, she was married-to musician Phil Elverum.
“In your 20s, you’re still so jagged and fractured, and I feel like everything has sort of cohered,” she told the magazine. Williams would only share (“I would tell you everything…but the internet’s an a — hole,” she pointed out) that she and Elverum, a singer-songwriter who performs as Mount Eerie, were planning to wed in a small ceremony in the Adirondacks.
They had met through mutual friends. Elverum was a widower, having lost his wife of 13 years in 2016, and a father of a then 3-year-old daughter. He was based in Washington but packed up for Brooklyn, where they all moved into a new home.
“I never gave up on love,” Williams told Vanity Fair. “I always say to Matilda, ‘Your dad loved me before anybody thought I was talented, or pretty, or had nice clothes.’ Obviously I’ve never once in my life talked about a relationship but Phil isn’t anyone else. And that’s worth something. Ultimately the way he loves me is the way I want to live my life on the whole. I work to be free inside of the moment. I parent to let Matilda feel free to be herself, and I am finally loved by someone who makes me feel free.”
Heath’s father, Kim Ledger, told the Sydney Morning Herald in their native Australia that his family was “terribly happy” for Michelle. He added, “She’s very private and I don’t really like to make too many comments about her, but we are very happy.”
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It was soon revealed, however, that life hadn’t entirely cohered just yet. Williams and Elverum quietly split up the following year.
“It was an amicable spilt and they remain friends,” a source told People in April 2019.
But life found a way, and by the end of the year, Williams was engaged and expecting a baby with Hamilton director-and Fosse/Verdon director- Thomas Kail.
“She’s very excited to have another baby and give Matilda a sibling,” a source told E! News that December. “She fell fast and hard for Thomas. They are very in love and excited about their future together and having a family.”
Williams had in 2012, “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. 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.”
But you really never know what’s coming around the bend.
Having addressed the importance of equal pay respecting women’s voices during her Emmys speech, she used her Golden Globes platform to speak about choice.
“I’m grateful for the acknowledgement of the choices I’ve made and I’m also grateful to have lived in a moment in our society where choice exists,” she said, “because as women and as girls, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice. I’ve tried my very best to live a life of my own making, not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting all over.”
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“I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose, to choose when to have my children, and with whom,” Williams continued. “When I felt supported and able to balance our lives knowing, as all mothers know, that the scales must and will tip towards our children now.”
She may not say as much as some celebrities, but when she does, Williams isn’t afraid to use her voice.
And while she’s spoken candidly about grief and motherhood, and about what losing Ledger felt like, Williams has purposely never talked about his struggles or what exactly happened between them.
“I can talk about grief because that’s mine, about single parenting, about trying to balance work and kids,” she told Vogue. “But what I don’t have to talk about is what happened between Heath and me in our relationship.”
Understandably, part of keeping Ledger’s memory alive for Matilda is not complicating his legacy.
“Michelle really does keep things real for [Matilda],” Kate Ledger, Heath’s sister, told the U.K.’s Sunday Telegraph in 2015. “And her existence, although different from most, is as normal as possible in an abnormal world.”
“She’s got his energy,” Kim also told Australia’s Channel 10 around that time. “Heath never slept from when he was two and Matilda’s like that. She’s just got this ball of energy and she radiates this little aura.”
Ledger told In Touch in December 2005, when his daughter was 6 weeks old, “Matilda is adorable, and beautifully observant and wise. Michelle and I love her so much. Becoming a father exceeds all my expectations. It’s the most remarkable experience I’ve ever had-it’s marvelous.”
After so much love followed by a devastating loss, for years Williams walked a strange line between life going on and the feeling that things didn’t go the way they were supposed to.
“In all honesty, for pretty much everything else, I feel like I’m a believer in not fighting circumstances, accepting where you are and where you’ve been,” she said in Porter magazine’s December 2016 issue.
“In pretty much all senses but one, I would be able to go totally down that line of thinking were it not for Matilda not having her dad. You know, that’s just something that doesn’t-I mean, it just won’t ever be right.”
But at 15, Matilda has that sibling her mom always wanted for her, Williams has found a new partner and she’s living proof that there are different ways for things to turn out right.
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