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When Michelle Williams spoke to Elle magazine in January, she had no idea she’d be faced with the death of her ex, Heath Ledger, only days later on Jan. 22.

At the time, she was still mourning their breakup. “I didn’t know where to go” after their 2007 split, she says in the magazine’s April issue. “I couldn’t imagine any place in the world that was gonna feel good to me.”

Williams, 27, dove into work on several films, because “when I have too much free time, that’s when things start to get a little messy.”

She als naturally focused on Matilda, 2, her daughter with Ledger. “She’s bigger to me than any relationship, bigger than the awards,” Williams says. “She’s what came out of it.”

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Michelle Williams sat down with British Magazine Wonderland just before ex-fiance Heath Ledger’s death. The issue was released this week, with some fabulous photos of the actress. In the candid interview Michelle reveals a lot about how she dealt with media scrutiny during their relationship.

Regarding the split Michelle said, “When you’re in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality then it doubles the attention from the media. When you minus that equation it’s just less enticing. That’s been a real bonus. It’s the plus side of the break-up for me.”

Michelle also mentioned playing a difficult role in the movie “Incendiary” with Ewan McGregor.

“It’s about a woman grieving after losing her husband and son in a terrorist attack. It was a brutal role and arduous: six-day weeks, 14 hour-days. I was like the walking dead towards the end.”

Even weirder, this isn’t the first creepy interview foreshadowing Heath’s death.

Here are some more pictures of Michelle Williams is back to work on the set of “Mammoth.” A friend revealed to Us Weekly that, although Michelle is naturally “still very heartbroken” over Heath’s death, “she is happy to be working,” calling her role in the film, “a welcome distraction.” The young actress is keeping busy, tending to her daughter, Matilda, and will be shooting Martin Scorsese’s film, “Ashecliffe” in Boston next month alongside Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo DiCaprio.

A witness who was also in attendance at the small ceremony held for Heath in his hometown of Perth, Australia revealed that a video montage showing images of Heath with his young daughter was played, set to the song “Happy Ever After in Your Eyes” by Ben Harper. Harper wrote the song for Matilda when asked by Heath to do so.

According to the friend who chatted with Us Weekly, “She is really keeping it together.”

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8 more photos of Michelle Williams on the set of ‘Mammoth are after the jump.

Michelle Williams is back to work shooting scenes for her current film project, shortly after her ex-fiance, Heath Ledger, was laid to rest in his native Australia. Despite the fact that an insider has indicated that, “The mood on set is pretty sombre,” Williams seems determined to get through the film, which was being shot in Sweden at the time of Heath’s death. Shooting has since commenced in NYC and Michelle was spotted during production of the film, “Mammoth,” inside the Evolution store recently.

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More photos of Michelle Williams on the set of her latest movie are after the jump.

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Michelle Williams has arrived in Perth, Australia for Heath Ledger’s funeral. The 27-year-old actress and her two-year-old daughter stepped out of their plane to a team of security, including more than five police officers, who made sure they were safely transported to their elevator.

Naturally, Williams is devastated and struggling with how to explain to her young daughter what has happened. According to a friend, “Michelle basically told Matilda,’Daddy went away.’ Matilda still doesn’t grasp it.”

Heath will be buried in a private funeral on Saturday.

Michelle Williams attended a private ceremony Saturday in Los Angeles to honor her ex Heath Ledger, a source tells Usmagazine.com.

The ceremony was held at the Sony Studios.

In addition to his family, Josh Hartnett and Ledger’s other ex, Naomi Watts, as well as other industry figures and people connected to CAA (the agency that represented Ledger), attended.

Musician Ben Harper performed. (Ledger had directed Harper’s video, “Morning Yearning.”)

Australian paper Perth Now is reporting that Ledger’s grieving family, including father Kim, mother Sally and elder sister Kate, left L.A. for Australia on Sunday night.

Funeral arrangements remain unknown.

On Friday, Williams released a statement on Ledger’s passing. She said, “My heart is broken.”

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Michelle Williams is speaking out about the loss of her former fiance, Heath Ledger, who is also the father of their two-year-old daughter, Matilda. Her rep released a statement to the media in which Michelle states, “My heart is broken.”

She goes on to say, “I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father.”

“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.”

HEATH Ledger had become a regular user of cocaine and heroin in the past year, getting so high on drugs that an exasperated Michelle Williams was forced to boot him out of their Brooklyn home, The Post has learned.

“She couldn’t take it any more. Heath wouldn’t show up for two to three days, and all of a sudden he would show up on her doorstep, an absolute wreck,” a member of Ledger’s entourage who did drugs with him told The Post’s Lorena Mongelli. “He was partying, doing drugs. She didn’t like the company he was keeping. She gave him an ultimatum. . . . and threatened to get custody of the girl. He wanted to make it work, but it was this scene he was wrapped up in. Was he an addict? Yeah.”

The revelation comes as “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider” said that “out of respect for Heath Ledger’s family,” they would drop plans to air a video of Ledger snorting cocaine with a rolled-up bill at the Chateau Marmont. The video was taped without Ledger’s knowledge following the SAG Awards two years ago. PageSix.com reports that Ledger quips on the tape, “I’m gonna get so much [bleep] from my girlfriend. We have a baby together, Matilda.”

Heath’s drug pal told The Post the 28-year-old star’s mushrooming fame had him constantly exposed to drugs. As the pressures of work grew, he couldn’t say no, and then wouldn’t get help. “He was hanging out with a bad crowd. He wasn’t cleaning up his act. He was making absolutely no effort . . . He was really into heroin. He wasn’t sleeping or communicating with anyone.”

Ledger’s lifeless body was found in his Broome Street loft in SoHo last week along with six kinds of prescription pills. Authorities believe he overdosed, although the cause of death won’t be official until toxicology tests are finished.

“At the end of the day this is really tragic,” the source said. “He was a nice guy. I first met him in 2002. He was scared about the whole Hollywood thing . . . I don’t think he realized how crazy it was going to be. So many people wanted a piece of him.”

But, the pal adds, things got really bad when heroin entered the picture. “Once you go down that road, then it gets really scary. Because all of sudden you shoot up, you take heroin, then you do a line of cocaine and then you take sleeping pills. Look at River Phoenix, he died exactly the same way.”

Ledger’s reps didn’t get back to us.

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Filming of Michelle Williams’s next movie, Blue Valentine, has been put on hold while the actress copes with the death of Heath Ledger, a source tells PEOPLE.

“We will hold off until she is ready,” says a source connected with the film. “The production is in the process of sorting it out in respect to her.”

The movie – a relationship drama centered around a young couple struggling with their marriage – also stars Ryan Gosling, who Williams was rumored to be dating after they were spotted strolling together in New York before the holidays.

Production on the film was set to start on February 25, but has been moved back to an indefinite date.

“We’re hoping she will still come back and do the film and are happy to wait,” the source says. “The film is tailor made for those two so of course we would want to wait. You can’t get much better than them.”

Williams had just finished shooting her last scene in the film “Mammuth” in Sweden when she received the news of Ledger’s death.