Michael Musto says Entertainment Tonight’s decision not to air the video they purchased of Heath Ledger at a coke party is a victory for publicists and a defeat for “truth”:
And once again, the PR industry succeeds in keeping the truth from the public. Flacks were suddenly outraged over the “bad taste” involved in running such a video, but THEY’RE the class acts who accept large sums of money to obscure celebrity realities on a daily basis. Talk about bad taste!…This tape couldn’t have truly hurt anyone. The truth???even in sensationalized form???can only heal.
The video, which you can watch here, doesn’t actually show Ledger doing drugs. In fact, he seems uncomfortable and seems to be repeating “I shouldn’t even be here” as if he’s about to walk out the door. When he makes the now-famous revelation that he “used to smoke five joints a day,” he proudly follows it up with the statement that he hasn’t smoked at all in ten months. So I’m a little fuzzy as to what kind of “truth” it portrays that its airing on a gossip show could have potentially “healed.” Are we talking about the truth that Heath Ledger once hung out at the Chateau Marmont? The truth that he felt guilty about partying and feared reprimand from Michelle Williams? The truth that sometimes people secretly videotape celebrities, and then sell those video tapes for six figures when those celebrities are dead and their mere proximity to cocaine suddenly becomes “valuable” news?
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