Heath Ledger Heath LedgerYou may have heard the Heath Ledger rumours doing the rounds.

There are many mutterings about his past.

But if you listen carefully you may not believe it to be true...

The word is that Heath may have had a teenage love child with a former girlf.

But now the woman in question and her husband have spoken out.

The woman whose name is not given to protect privacy told the Daily Mail: "I'm not answering anything.

"I think it's very, very rude that I'm being posed all of this. I really do. I can't talk about anything.

"You have no proof, there's no background, there's no grounds, there's no nothing."

Her husband supported her assertions: "The whole thing with (Heath being the father) is no. No way. No can be."

The reports that Heath fathered the now 11-year-old girl came from the actor's estranged uncle, who spoke to the Australian media.

Heath had a fling with a 25-year-old woman when he was 17. It's claimed the woman learned she was pregnant after their relationship ended.

Her husband told the paper: "We knew it would flare up and that is the point of my talking and the simple thing is we will do a DNA test."

"I'm the step-dad, but there's nothing to hide... and if I asked (the mother) I'm sure that she wouldn't mind (to have a DNA test)."