According to the Daily Telegraph, Heath Ledger’s estranged uncle claims that the late actor might have fathered a love child.

When he was just 17 years old, Ledger reportedly dated a 25-year-old woman who discovered she was pregnant after the relationship ended and later gave birth to baby girl. Although the woman was living with another man at the time, Ledger’s uncle Hadyn claimed to the paper, “There is a very real possibility that Heath was the father.”

But in a television interview, Hadyn called this possibility only a rumor.

“It is a rumor and it is one that has been out there for sometime, not only within our family but certainly in the wider community of Perth and it’s certainly a rumor that I’m aware of and other people have certainly been aware of it,” he told Australia’s Channel Nine News. “It is only a rumor and I simply answered by saying yes it’s a possibility.”

If it is confirmed that Ledger is the girl’s biological father, it could split his multi-million dollar estate between his two-year-old daughter Matilda Rose and his secret love child.

Although, as it is now, his April 2003 Will, which was drawn up before Matilda’s birth, lists only $145,000 in assets and names the late actor’s father, Kim, mother Sally Bell, sister Kate Ledger, and half sisters Olivia Ledger and Ashleigh Bell as the only beneficiaries. However, there are New York documents that acknowledge Matilda Rose as Ledger’s only known child and as an interested party.