Potes'n'Roll

JACK NICHOLSON has spoken out about the sleeping pill that is rumoured to have been prescribed to HEATH LEDGER.

Asked about the death of the Brokeback mountain star, Nicholson, in London for the premiere of his new film The Bucket List, claimed the same pills nearly killed him.

“I warn people about Ambien,” said the actor, who played The Joker in the 1989 Batman movie.

“I almost drove off a cliff once. I don’t take sleeping pills but somebody said ‘take this, it’s mild,’.

“I got a call in the middle of the night, kind of an emergency, and I almost drove off a cliff 50 yards from my house, and I live up in the mountains in Aspen. So I warn people about it. But I also did not know Mr Ledger.”

Heath Ledger sinister version of The Joker in The Dark Knight was set to push his career through the roof before his untimely death.

Earlier in the night Jack also said he cautioned Heath before his fellow Joker actor’s death.

He was dining at the Wolseley restaurant last night when a snapper told him about Heath’s passing.

Jack replied “I warned him” then later said “I told him so”.

The photographer told The Sun: “Jack came out and the first thing everyone wanted to tell him was about was Heath.

“He looked a bit bemused and I wasn’t certain he even knew who Heath was.

“But when he said he ‘warned’ Ledger it was definitely eerie.”

See Jack speaking at the Wolseley restaurant in London in the video below.