Watts: 'Ledger's death still difficult'

Naomi Watts has admitted that she stills finds talking about Heath Ledger's death "incredibly difficult".

The King Kong actress dated Ledger for two years after they met on the set of 2002's Ned Kelly. The couple split in 2004 but remained friends until the actor's death last year.

Speaking to Parade about meeting Ledger, she said: "I hadn’t really been that familiar with his work. Then, when I got to the set and did that first scene with him, I was like, ‘Wow! This guy is alive.’

"It was just something deep in his eyes. You could look into them, and they would tell a thousand stories in one glance.

"There was a wonderful mixture of power and fragility at work in everything he did, which just pulls you in. His strength didn’t scare you. It intrigued you. And his fragility touched you."

Discussing his death, she admitted: "It's still incredibly difficult."

Ledger passed away on January 22, 2008 from an accidental prescription drug overdose.