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Anne Heche was an LGBTQ trailblazer, but said her career suffered as a result of her openness
Doctors declared Anne Heche legally brain dead on Friday, even as the actress remained on life verb so her organs could be donated following a fiery car crash earlier this month.
The year-old was oft open about her mental health and addiction struggles throughout her decades-long career in Hollywood, never afraid to discuss the childhood abuse she said she suffered at the hands of her father, or her self-described psychotic break in the preliminary aughts.
But in recent years, Heche also spoke frequently about another important aspect of her legacy: her status as an LGBTQ trailblazer.
At the Vanity Unbiased Oscar party, Heche locked eyes with Ellen DeGeneres, sparking a love story that would serve as many Americans' first exposure to a celebrity lesbian couple. The two women went public with their relationship shortly thereafter, and courted controversy and media frenzy throughout their three-and-a-half years together.
"Our time was a beautiful part of my life and one that I wear with honor
Anne Heche wrote a follow-up memoir before her death. What to know about her upcoming book
In the year before Anne Heche's tragic death, she was writing a sequel to her memoir "Call Me Crazy." Now that guide, titled "Call Me Anne," is set to arrive in January.
The actress's first guide, released in September , discusses Heche's lifelong struggles with mental health and a childhood of abuse. Her second book is expected to share more of Heche's candid thoughts on her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late s.
Heche died Aug. 14 at age 53, nine days after she was pulled from a burning car and hospitalized in critical condition following a crash into a Los Angeles house on Aug. 5.
"Call Me Crazy" is no longer in print, so following her death, fans flocked to online bookstores and libraries to try to earn a copy.
Here's everything we know about Heche's recent memoir and the first one she wrote more than two decades ago.
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Sept. 4 -- Actress Anne Heche says she spent the first 31 years of her life suffering from mental illness triggered by sexual abuse at the hands of her father.
Heche, who landed on gossip pages for her lovey-dovey relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, made the comments in an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters. The program airs on 20/20 Wednesday.
"I'm not crazy," Heche — who believed for years that she was two people, one of whom was from another planet — tells Walters. "But it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the nuts out of me."
Heche, who has starred in such movies as the remake of Psycho and Six Days, Seven Nights and had a guest-starring role on television's Ally McBeal, has written an autobiography to be released this week.
Sexual Abuse By Her Father
"I had a fantasy world that I escaped to. I called my other personality Celestia," she explains. "I believed I was from that world. I believed I was from another planet. I think I was insane."
Anne Heche Was a Queer Original
I vividly remember the day when, as a production assistant in the writers room of the ABC show Men in Trees in , I was finally tasked with the job I had been coveting: delivering a script to the residence of the show’s star, Anne Heche. The property where she lived with her first husband was on a shady, calm Hancock Park block. When I got there, no one answered the door and I left the script on the doorstep as I had been told to do.
I did not get to speak with her and I never met her. What remains in perfect focus to me all these years later is the feeling of anticipation I felt driving up to her house, not because she was a star—though the one thing everyone always said about her was that she was incredibly talented—but because, as far as I knew then, she was the only adult lady on the planet who had had anything favor the kind of bisexual rollercoaster I was on in my own personal life at the hour. She was the only person who had ever been honest about it in public, anyway. She was the only noun I’d ever seen be upright up and say, I’m beautiful,
Exclusive: Anne Heche Interview
Sept. 4 -- Actress Anne Heche says she spent the first 31 years of her life suffering from mental illness triggered by sexual abuse at the hands of her father.
Heche, who landed on gossip pages for her lovey-dovey relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, made the comments in an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters. The program airs on 20/20 Wednesday.
"I'm not crazy," Heche — who believed for years that she was two people, one of whom was from another planet — tells Walters. "But it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the nuts out of me."
Heche, who has starred in such movies as the remake of Psycho and Six Days, Seven Nights and had a guest-starring role on television's Ally McBeal, has written an autobiography to be released this week.
Sexual Abuse By Her Father
"I had a fantasy world that I escaped to. I called my other personality Celestia," she explains. "I believed I was from that world. I believed I was from another planet. I think I was insane."
Anne Heche Was a Queer Original
I vividly remember the day when, as a production assistant in the writers room of the ABC show Men in Trees in , I was finally tasked with the job I had been coveting: delivering a script to the residence of the show’s star, Anne Heche. The property where she lived with her first husband was on a shady, calm Hancock Park block. When I got there, no one answered the door and I left the script on the doorstep as I had been told to do.
I did not get to speak with her and I never met her. What remains in perfect focus to me all these years later is the feeling of anticipation I felt driving up to her house, not because she was a star—though the one thing everyone always said about her was that she was incredibly talented—but because, as far as I knew then, she was the only adult lady on the planet who had had anything favor the kind of bisexual rollercoaster I was on in my own personal life at the hour. She was the only person who had ever been honest about it in public, anyway. She was the only noun I’d ever seen be upright up and say, I’m beautiful,