Los Angeles - Actress Michelle Williams
has quietly married, telling Vanity Fair magazine she never gave
up on love after the death of her partner Heath Ledger 10 years
ago.
Williams, 37, the fiercely private Oscar-nominated star of
"Brokeback Mountain," told the magazine in an interview
published on Thursday that she married American indie musician
Phil Elverum at a private ceremony earlier this month in the
rural Adirondacks region of upstate New York.
She described her relationship with Elverum, whose first
wife died of pancreatic cancer, as "very sacred, very special."
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Williams had a daughter, Matilda, with Ledger but the couple
ended their three-year romance a few months before his 2008
death at age 28 of an accidental prescription drugs overdose.
"I never gave up on love," she said. "I always say to
Matilda, 'Your dad loved me before anybody thought I was
talented, or pretty, or had nice clothes.' Obviously I've never
once in my life talked about a relationship but Phil isn't
anyone else."
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Williams spoke of how she and Matilda were hounded by media
in the months after Ledger's death.
"I'll never forget going to the post office and seeing a
sign hung on the wall for anyone with information about myself
and my daughter, to please call this number. Um, so I took that
down," she told Vanity Fair.
"When you're a single parent, and that element of provider
and protection is missing, it's scary," she added.
The interview appears in the September edition of Vanity
Fair.