
The latest news from Australia is saying that Heath Ledger “could have” fathered a love child.
The Hollywood star is believed to have been 17 when he had an affair with an older woman.
The mother - in a relationship with another man at the time - is thought to have only learned she was pregnant after the affair with Ledger ended.
Ledger’s uncle, Haydn Ledger, yesterday confirmed there was a “real possibility” his nephew had fathered a girl with the woman.
Family sources said the girl was raised by the woman and the other man, although there were suspicions about the child’s father.
Heath was still at school at Guildford Grammar when he began the affair with the woman, then aged 25.
Yesterday another family source said: “She had the baby. Everyone lived under the assumption that she was the daughter of the mother’s boyfriend and that is how she has been brought up.”
The woman is now married with a young family.
If the girl turns out to be Heath’s biological daughter it could make things worse with his will. Then Matilda and the girl would split his inheritance.