Heath Ledger had secret love child?

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Heath Ledger's uncle Haydn has claimed that the actor may have had a secret love child.

The late Hollywood star's relative said Ledger conducted an affair with a 25-year-old woman in Perth, Australia when he was only 17.

After breaking off the relationship the mystery female apparently discovered she was pregnant. She is reportedly now married and settled with a family.

Hadyn told the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "There is a very real possibility that Heath was the father."

Ledger, who was found dead in an apartment in the Soho district of lower Manhattan in January, had one child with actress Michelle Williams, two-year-old Matilda.