Michelle Williams Missing Heath Ledger Badly

It's been 10 months since Heath Ledger's tragic death. And, obviously, Michelle Williams is still reeling.In fact, during a recent interview with Newsweek, the actress – mother of Ledger's three-year-old daughter, Matilda – burst into tears at the mere mention of his name."It's so sad," the 28-year-old told the magazine of Ledger's death – ruled an accidental overdose of prescription drugs – in late January.

How is she holding up? "I guess it's always changing," she said. "What else can I say? I just wake up each day in a slightly different place – grief is like a moving river."Although the two Brokeback Mountain stars had split before Ledger's death, they always remained close.

"It's a strange thing to say, because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse," she said of her grief. "It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. In some ways it gets worse. That's what I would say."The actress – currently starring in the indie flick Wendy and Lucy – says she's currently taking a year off to focus on her daughter.

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Michelle Williams Dating Spike Jonze

Seven months after Heath Ledger's untimely death, his former fiancee, Michelle Williams, is now reportedly dating director Spike Jonze, Star Magazine says in a exclusive.Devastated by the death of her ex, Heath Ledger, last January, Michelle has been struggling to start anew for the sake of their 2-year-old daughter, Matilda. And part of this is beginning a relationship with the director, who once dated Drew Barrymore and was previously married to Sofia Coppola. "Michelle kissed Spike with a closed mouth on the corner of his lips," says an eyewitness who saw the couple together the morning of July 2 leaving Spike's Manhattan apartment. "There was definitely a little bit of caressing going on. She was clutching his arm. The body language was very romantic."Sources close to this story say that Michelle Williams is head over heels and thinks Jonze has many admirable qualities. Qualities such as "funny," "smart," and "not dead."

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Michelle Williams -- Devastated

HEATH Ledger's ex-fiancee Michelle Williams is now making a tearful dash from Sweden to New York with their two-year-old daughter Matilda after learning of the Aussie actor's shocking death.Williams, who split with Ledger last September, was in the Nordic country filming her new movie Mammoth.The pair met on the set of Ang Lee's 2005 cowboy epic Brokeback Mountain - for which Ledger scored an Oscar nomination - and he was said to be gutted when the relationship broke down.

Britain's Daily Mail newspaper claimed the 28-year-old began dabbling in drugs."Heath totally wanted to be on his own these past few months since he and Michelle split in September," one insider was quoted as saying."He adored his daughter Matilda and when Michelle called it quits he missed Matilda so much that he was thrown into a deep, dark depression."Heath was living in New York to be close to his daughter. But he hardly ever ventured out any more.

His close friend and Brokeback co-star, Jake Gyllenhaal has been worried about him for months. And he knew Heath was sinking further into a depression. Jake is Matilda's godfather, and he and Heath had become really close since they did the film Brokeback together.Michelle will be devastated by the news because she always hoped ... they could manage to work out their relationship for the sake of their daughter.

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