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Poor Heath Ledger. First his girlfriend tells everyone how upsetting it was to him that his hot naked pictures got leaked onto the ‘net, and now his dad reveals that getting squirted with water by the paparrazi made him cry all night and move out of Australia. In related news, his dad’s name is Kim:
“Heath had to go into the cinema and introduce that film soaking wet. He cried all night,” the automotive engineer said after the weekend’s NSW Dutton Car Rally. “He rang me and said, ‘Dad, that’s it - sell the house’.”
Mr Ledger, who lives in Perth but bought the $4.45 million beachside home for his only son in 2004, told Heath to think about it for 48 hours.
“Two days later he rang me back and said, ‘Dad, it’s been 47 hours and 57 minutes - sell the house’,” he said.
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Ledger is going to be so pissed that he dad revealed that he cried over this. Unlike Tom Cruise’s angry response to getting squirted on the red carpet, Ledger was said to be “unruffled” by the incident. He must hold everything inside until it eats him up, just like his character in “Brokeback Mountain.”
Breaking down and moving out of town because some photographers get pissy with you is a response way out of proportion to the incident. He was said to have spit on the guys, so getting hit with some watergun spray is a pretty mild consequence. Maybe he’ll grow up and quit being so sensitive after he realizes how foolish this makes him look.
Why would his dad reveal that about him though? He could be pissed that he’s not seeing his granddaughter much since Ledger is so afraid of travelling to Australia and getting sprayed with more water.
Update: We noted in an article shortly after this one that we were wrong about our assessment of Ledger and that he was harassed beyond the point that was acceptable by those same paparazzi. Thanks to reader Phyllis whose comment is below.
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5 Responses to “Heath Ledger cried like a baby after the squirtgun incident”
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He is such a girl sometimes. He also said in an interview that earlier in his career he was considered for the Spiderman role but when he met with execs he got so nervous he left the audition and threw up. It’s odd since he seems to be overly aggressive at times, throwing eggs, gesturing and spitting at the paparazzis. If you’re soooo darn private, you don’t become an actor, not in Hollywood of all places. Around the BBM promotion and the Oscars though he and Michelle were happy to go to a store opening–so they swing between extreme privacy and overexposure. You’re right that his father shouldn’t be revealing this to the press. It’s not doing him any favors.
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Heath’s dad did not buy the house for him. However at that time, his father was handling Heath’s Australian business, since it was easier that way. His father oversaw the renovations, the purchase, and the sale. However Heath pays for his own properties. It’s not uncommon for a celebrity to have some type of business manager handling those aspects. Heath’s dad was doing that at the time.
Also, the spitting thing never happened. Period. There are witnesses who were there and dispute the claims. The director and writer all say it never happened. And these razzi, all standing around with their cameras, none of whom ever got a photo of the alleged spitting incident. Nope. Not one photo. Because it didn’t happen. Heath’s word, the director’s word, writer’s word, and the crew’s word over a disgruntled paparazzi who couldn’t get the shot he wanted so he needed something else to sell. I find Heath’s account and the accounts of the other witnesses to be more credible.
Heath has admitted throwing an egg when a razzi was camped in his bushes all night. And flipping a bird on occassion. But he’s done none of this in over a year. As far as I’m concerned, a trespasser on my property, who won’t leave and follows me everywhere deserves an egg thrown at em here and there.
But Heath has been harrassed and abused by the Sydney paparazzi, to the point where it would be criminal in the states. But Sydney doesn’t have very strict stalker laws, and the razzi get away with ridiculous amount of harrassment. (They’ve gone so far as to bug the bushes at Nicole Kidman’s house.) Do you know that the paparazzi who sprayed him also followed Heath home after the premiere that night? They camped out on his lawn the whole night and began banging on his front door at 6 am taunting him & calling him names. Then those same razzi called a press conference on the poor guy’s own front lawn. How is this not harrassment? In any other situation, it would be.
Do you know that the Sydney paparazzi slept in his bushes and behind his bar-b-que to try to sneak pictures into his house? Every night! Do you know that they parked at the end of his driveway and waited for him to leave his home and followed him & Michelle everywhere they went? One even interruped a scene on the set of Candy, and then menacingly whispered, “See you at home, Heath.”
How would you feel? Do you really think that in order to be an actor a person has to be subjected to this? Where’s the line?
How much would it take for you to flip off someone who harrassed you daily?
At some point the stress builds up and you have to let it out. He cried. I don’t think that’s anything to be ashamed of. It doesn’t make him a “girl”. It makes him human.
Heath’s father didn’t tell anything Heath hadn’t admitted already. He had said in an earlier interview that he broke down when he got home. Extreme stress, built up over time can do that to a person. Not just being squirted by a water gun, but the constant harrassment and viciousness. That was just the final straw, and he had to let it out.
None of us can understand how much pressure and stress they had been putting on him and how long it had been going on. How many lies had been printed and how long he had kept quiet and not defended himself? He’s only now beginning to speak out.
Heath is a very gentle and private person. He doesn’t have an ego. Industry friends who know him tell me that he’s extremely shy. Sometimes people think he’s being aloof; premieres are a nightmare for him, and he’s uncomfortable being approached by strangers, but he doesn’t have an ego. He’s not ashamed to admit he cried. I think it’s admirable.
He wants to act. He likes the work. It’s the acting part he loves. And why should he have to give that up, just because some photographers lack common decency and manners.
I don’t understand why it’s hard for people to understand that just because a person enjoys acting, doesn’t mean they should enjoy being hunted like an animal.
He and Michelle do premieres, and the required schmooze parties when it is part of their work or when they need to keep a high profile for awards season. But that’s business. Make no mistake, an opening or party in the entertainment industry is always business. Always. These people are working. They may have a drink in their hand and live music, but they’re working.
The rest of the time, Heath and Michelle want to live normal lives.
The exposure of a store opening? Well, why shouldn’t he and Michelle want to go out if they get an invite? They’re not going out for exposure. They’re just going out, just like you or I would only to different kinds of things. But it’s the media that takes photos, puts them on covers, etc; it’s the media that causes exposure. They’re not asking for it just because they go to a store opening. They shouldn’t have to hide in their house, because of worrying about being overexposed.
They’re going about their business and their daily lives, just like you and I do, and would like to do it with relatively little harrassment.
I don’t understand why that’s so hard for people to accept.
btw: He left the audition and felt like throwing up for The Patriot, not Spiderman. He turned down Spiderman without auditioning for it because he wasn’t interested in the part.
So those are the facts. Everything I say, I can back up: quote, article and date. I have to be able to, since as a webmaster, I have to post these articles and interviews.
Personally, I wouldn’t stay in a place where I could never have peace. Heath loves Australia, but it had gotten extremely bad over time so he had to make that decision. And if it’s what he had to do to feel secure, make a difficult decision to leave the home he had spent a year redesigning with the intent of making it his home base . . . don’t you think that was a hard choice? I respect that. No one should have to expect or accept being treated the way he was treated. I wouldn’t. Would you?
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Searching old news about Heath Ledger, came across this nasty piece … another in a long line of dissing your hated celebs….Are people, incl. the paparazzi, happy now?…Satisified …now he’s dead? You can move on to the next one right…?
If someone like Heath Ledger ends up killing themselves for you, well then anything can happen….
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We actually took this back in another article about Heath shortly afterwards. It was nasty, you’re right, and we said we were wrong here:
http://www.celebitchy.com/1118/heath_ledger_and_michelle_will/
millie:
his dad bought the house for him? did heath come from money or what? can’t he afford his own house?
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