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Michelle Williams attended a private ceremony Saturday in Los Angeles to honor her ex Heath Ledger, a source tells Usmagazine.com.

The ceremony was held at the Sony Studios.

In addition to his family, Josh Hartnett and Ledger’s other ex, Naomi Watts, as well as other industry figures and people connected to CAA (the agency that represented Ledger), attended.

Musician Ben Harper performed. (Ledger had directed Harper’s video, “Morning Yearning.”)

Australian paper Perth Now is reporting that Ledger’s grieving family, including father Kim, mother Sally and elder sister Kate, left L.A. for Australia on Sunday night.

Funeral arrangements remain unknown.

On Friday, Williams released a statement on Ledger’s passing. She said, “My heart is broken.”

HEATH Ledger had become a regular user of cocaine and heroin in the past year, getting so high on drugs that an exasperated Michelle Williams was forced to boot him out of their Brooklyn home, The Post has learned.

“She couldn’t take it any more. Heath wouldn’t show up for two to three days, and all of a sudden he would show up on her doorstep, an absolute wreck,” a member of Ledger’s entourage who did drugs with him told The Post’s Lorena Mongelli. “He was partying, doing drugs. She didn’t like the company he was keeping. She gave him an ultimatum. . . . and threatened to get custody of the girl. He wanted to make it work, but it was this scene he was wrapped up in. Was he an addict? Yeah.”

The revelation comes as “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider” said that “out of respect for Heath Ledger’s family,” they would drop plans to air a video of Ledger snorting cocaine with a rolled-up bill at the Chateau Marmont. The video was taped without Ledger’s knowledge following the SAG Awards two years ago. PageSix.com reports that Ledger quips on the tape, “I’m gonna get so much [bleep] from my girlfriend. We have a baby together, Matilda.”

Heath’s drug pal told The Post the 28-year-old star’s mushrooming fame had him constantly exposed to drugs. As the pressures of work grew, he couldn’t say no, and then wouldn’t get help. “He was hanging out with a bad crowd. He wasn’t cleaning up his act. He was making absolutely no effort . . . He was really into heroin. He wasn’t sleeping or communicating with anyone.”

Ledger’s lifeless body was found in his Broome Street loft in SoHo last week along with six kinds of prescription pills. Authorities believe he overdosed, although the cause of death won’t be official until toxicology tests are finished.

“At the end of the day this is really tragic,” the source said. “He was a nice guy. I first met him in 2002. He was scared about the whole Hollywood thing . . . I don’t think he realized how crazy it was going to be. So many people wanted a piece of him.”

But, the pal adds, things got really bad when heroin entered the picture. “Once you go down that road, then it gets really scary. Because all of sudden you shoot up, you take heroin, then you do a line of cocaine and then you take sleeping pills. Look at River Phoenix, he died exactly the same way.”

Ledger’s reps didn’t get back to us.

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Michelle Williams arrived in Brooklyn last night, the day after her ex Heath Ledger was found dead in a Manhattan apartment. Williams was carrying their two-year-old daughter Matilda.

Williams was shooting her latest movie, Mammoth, in Sweden when news of Ledger’s death was reported Tuesday afternoon.

The couple met while working on Brokeback Mountain and split in September after three years together.

Matilda’s godmother, Williams’ former Dawson’s Creek costar Busy Philipps, was spotted at the house, as was Williams’ mother, earlier in the day.

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