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mariez:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on February 01, 2008, 02:28:34 pm ---A statement from Michelle, both heartbreaking and hopeful:
http://www.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUSN0143463020080201
"Please respect our need to grieve privately. My heart is broken," Williams said in a statement released on Friday by Ledger's spokeswoman.
"I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father," Williams continued in her statement.
"All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day. His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time, and we know that he is with us still. She will be brought up with the best memories of him," Williams' statement concluded.
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Oh my. What a beautiful statement. And incredibly moving.
Marie
Mikaela:
I really don't know how to find the words after that statement, but wow, Michelle continues to show class and dignity, doesn't she. As well as much heart, here.
And Matilda is the spitting image of her father, sure enough.
I've come to realize that some of the images of Heath I like best to look at just now, are the pictures from the 2006 awards season (Golden Globes, BAFTAs, Oscars, that baseball game the day after the Oscars that the article Louise linked to has an image from). It's heartbreaking of course, but it's also still good to see how intensely happy he and Michelle were and how very much in love they obviously were. There's virtually a glow from those pics that isn't much diminished by what happened later. And certainly not diminished by this current statement of Michelle's.
TOoP/Bruce:
Sad to think she would have to ask to be allowed to grieve privately...
moremojo:
Michelle has clearly grown into a woman of great dignity and poise. I think Matilda is blessed to have her as a mother.
serious crayons:
That was a beautiful, touching statement. Dignified but not terse, succinct but full of character.
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