A British tabloid is reporting that late Academy Award-nominated actor, Heath Ledger struggled with severe substance abuse issues and even went on cocaine and ecstasy binges in the company of former supermodel Naomi Campbell.

The tales of cocaine-snorting come courtesy of Naomi’s former personal assistant, Rebecca White, who claims she witness her boss engaged in drug binges with the actor several times between 2001 and 2004.

“When I was working for Naomi I saw Heath do drugs a few times. He was new on the scene but everybody was hailing him as the new It Boy actor.

“We had been hanging in Naomi’s bungalow at the Bel Air Hotel. Heath asked Naomi if she had any cocaine – I used to carry it around for her – and I remember giving him the packet and he went off, back and forth throughout the night.”

Rebecca said she bought Heath coke a few more times:

“Each time I got an eight ball – four-and-a-half grams. The second time he came up all three of us spent a night doing coke in her bungalow. It was quite decadent. We were there for five or six hours.”

“Naomi gave Heath a handful of these little blue pills and I remember him putting them all in his mouth at once and swigging a bottle of Cristal Champagne.”