Flower incident shows Ledger’s kindness

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Flower incident shows Ledger’s kindness

by Jacqueline

January 28, 2008

Flowers, like pictures, can speak a thousand words. After the news last week of Heath Ledger's untimely death, filmstew.com recalled a time that Ledger used a flower to protect his family's privacy.

In the fall of 2006, when a tabloid photographer tried to take pictures of Ledger's daughter, the actor instinctively grabbed a flower from a flower shop and handed it to the photographer, asking him to please not take photos of his daughter, who had just celebrated her first birthday.

"He just didn't want to take it [the flower], but I slaughtered him with kindness and he took the flower," Ledger is quoted as saying.

Shouting, swearing or trying to punch the guy weren't Ledger's style. Instead, his gesture reflects a sensitivity and spontaneity that also came through on screen, and reminds us in yet another way that the deep sadness of his death at age 28 will resonate for a long time to come.

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