Melbourne
(ANI):
Heath
Ledger's
family
has
slammed
a
book
that
describes
the
late
actor
mentally
ill.
The
Ledgers
issued
a
statement
to
distance
his
immediate
family,
close
friends
and
associates
from
Janet
Fife-Yeomans
book
'Heath:
A
Family's
Tale',
published
by
Murdoch
Books.
The
book
suggests
that
the
Brokeback
Mountain
star
may
have
suffered
from
bipolar
disorder
just
as
his
estranged
uncle
Haydn
Ledger
does.
However,
the
Ledgers
have
claimed
that
the
book
is
grossly
inaccurate.
"The
book
contains
gross
inaccuracies,
false
allegations
(against
Kim
Ledger)
and
many
incorrect
and
unsubstantiated
comments
about
Heath
in
his
youth,
provided
by
estranged
family
members
and
some
people
who
had
little
to
do
with
Heath's
life," News.com.au
quoted
the
Ledger
family,
as
saying
in
a
statement.
"Further,
Fife-Yeomans
has
no
right
to
infer
that
we
(as
Heath's
family)
in
any
way
authorised
this
book.
We
have
never
contributed
to
or
authorised
any
publications
about
our
son," they
added.
However,
Fife-Yeomans
said:
"I
stick
by
everything
that
I
wrote
in
the
book,
and
I
never
said
it
was
an
authorised
biography."