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‘Blue Valentine’ star says ‘Nightline’ ‘edited the piece to sell the interview.’ By Jocelyn Vena Michelle Williams Photo: Getty Images Michelle Williams sat down with “Nightline” recently, and in the process of talking about her film “Blue Valentine,” she also opened up about the 2008 death of Heath Ledger, her ex-boyfriend and the father of her daughter, Matilda. When Williams spoke to The Daily Beast about that interview, she revealed some regret about how those comments were presented. “Just recently I felt as if I did cross a line about all this,” she explains. “Yet if I’m going to do interviews and be in this world, I don’t want to seem as if I’m just taking a party line. I want to say something that is representative of who I am and what I’m thinking about and what matters to me in the same ways that I want to do that in my work because my work and my life do feed off each other. The two do go together.” The actress goes on to note that she feels some of the blame also falls on the show. “When it comes to interviews, it all becomes rather tricky because I don’t want to say something without resonance but then I don’t want to go too far. I just had an experience with ‘Nightline’ that got edited in such a way that seemed as if I did go too far. “It was a three-hour interview that was edited in such a way that was devastating to me,” she says. “They edited the piece to sell the interview, and it appeared as if I were breaking some kind of silence and sitting down with the express purpose to discuss something that is very private to me.” Williams admits that even though she wants to keep some things private, she often opens up naturally. “And I say, ‘OK, this subject is off-limits if it is going to be convoluted and re-contextualized.’ … But then I sit down with you and feel compelled to talk about it,” she describes. “So it is a struggle.” Williams says she has been trying to find a balance in the nearly three years since Ledger died , and it was especially hard in the time right after his passing. “How do I talk about this? I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn’t hold on to anything,” she recalls. “I lost my sense of humor. I’m still sort of looking for that.” Related Photos Heath Ledger: 1979-2008

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Michelle Williams Says Heath Ledger Comments ‘Did Cross A Line’