[ichabod1]

I could have checked out at 28. I was into some BAD stuff when I was younger.

[RDTF]

glad ya didn’t :^)

[Tijeras_Slim]

I could have checked out at 28. I was into some BAD stuff when I was younger.

And we would have spoken gently and caringly about you too. ;)

[SkyPilot]

Look at this:

Heath Ledger's Friend: "We Saw It Coming"

News of Heath Ledger's death has shaken friends of the actor.

"This is terrible and I'm in shock," a close friend of Ledger's tells Usmagazine.com. "But to tell you the truth... we saw it coming."

"Heath has gone though a rough road of trying to get sober," the source tells Us.

"Things were very dark," the source says. "His one joy was Matilda." Matilda is his 2-year-old daughter with ex-wife Michelle Williams. They split in September.

"Everything else was misery for him," adds the source. "Unfortunately he was too late in getting help."

Ledger, 28, was found dead, reportedly at Mary-Kate Olsen's apartment.