[Shimmer]

Paramnesia, he was an addict. He WAS a known drug abuser. Not user, *abuser*. He was known, across the industry, as a coke fiend.
Just because someone's got a prescription for medication doesn't mean that person isn't / won't abuse it.
He was a phenomenal actor, there's no arguing that. He was also a drug addict, and, I'd be hard pressed to believe that he'd been clean for the year people are saying he was.
I'm not impugning the man's integrity, nor am I arguing his talent.
However, your statement that you don't believe he would do anything to harm his daughter...
Just by being addicted to cocaine and heroine, he harmed his daughter. Just by being addicted to drugs and therefore unable to maintain a stable relationship with Matilda's mother, he harmed his daughter.

It's sad, and it's tragic that such talent was lost in such a horrible fashion at such an early age, but he wasn't a hero, a martyr, or a saint. He was flawed like anyone else.