Heath Ledger Refused Rehab

With the Heath Ledger drug video about to be broadcast, news of his past drug problems, and refusal to go to rehab are now becoming news. Heath had cleaned up, or at least that can really be said for sure after the toxicology report comes back. For now though, maybe someone will hear more about Heath’s struggles, and decide to get clean and off drugs or alcohol themselves. Us reports:

Heath Ledger’s battle with alcohol and drugs was so harmful to his relationship with Michelle Williams that she tried to get him to enter rehab, Us Weekly reports in its latest issue, on newsstands now.

For three years, Williams was a firsthand witness to the gifted actor’s use of alcohol and drugs, including cocaine, heroin and "a variety of pills," says a Ledger confidant.

In March 2006 – just weeks after the couple walked the Oscars red carpet and when daughter Matilda was only five months old – Williams drove Ledger to Promises Treatment Center in Malibu, California, the confidant tells Us Weekly.

Ledger refused to check in, instead swaying her with a pledge to clean up.

Even after the couple realized "they were in way over their heads," according to a source, and split in September 2007, two sources tell Us that Williams demanded Ledger be drug-tested before his visitations with Matilda.

When news of Ledger’s death broke last Tuesday, Williams was inconsolable. "She cried and screamed as soon as she heard," a source on the Swedish set of her latest film, Mammoth, tells Us.

Heath didn’t try to kick drugs just for himself, he did it for Matilda.

Michelle Williams rep., Mara Buxbaum, released this statement regard the Us magazine story:

"This fabricated story of Michelle Williams attempting to bring Heath Ledger to rehab is just one lie among many. The speculation is heinous. Let this family grieve privately."

I wonder what Michelle’s rep will say after everyone sees Heath’s drug video.