FARRELL: ‘I COULD HAVE DIED LIKE LEDGER’
COLIN FARRELL was overcome with emotion at HEATH LEDGER’s memorial servic= e - because he felt it could have been him lying dead in the coffin.
The Brokeback Mountain star died from an accidental drug overdose in Ja= nuary 2008, midway through filming The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus - and= Farrell was one of three actors who stepped in to finish the role.
The Irish star, once one of Hollywood’s wildest hellraisers, admits the= tragedy had a profound effect on him, and prompted him to re-evaluate hi= s life.
Farrell recalls, "(I felt) this could’ve been me. I wouldn’t describe i= t as survivor’s guilt, but yes, that came into it a little bit. It makes = you ask some questions about yourself."
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