Michelle Williams After Heath Ledger's Death: "There's A Hole In Our Life"

It's been three years since the tragic death of Heath Ledger, and Michelle Williams - on the cover of Marie Claire's February issue - is still in recovery.

The Blue Valentine star explains her situation below:

"Obviously, for me and for [Matilda], there's a hole in our life. Of course the natural inclination is to want to fill it and make it disappear, but what I've come to recently is that it's impossible. Nothing will fit in that hole because what we want back we can't get, which is this one person.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy. I'm trying to be respectful of the absence. I'm not trying to fill it up. It is what it is."

Williams also talks about taking a year off from work after Ledger's death to "put my life back together. I had to be dragged back to work, basically, because I finally had my life in some kind of order, and I didn't know what would happen if I introduced work into it," she says.

And what about those Ryan Gosling romance rumors? Apparently they're not true! Williams reveals: "My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody."