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.
I called my other personality Celestia," she explains. I believed I was from another planet. I think I was insane. This escape to another world, she says, stemmed from being sexually abused by her father, Donald Heche, a seemingly devout Christian who she found out was gay as he lay dying of AIDS in I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?
You don't. Heche says she had herpes as a young girl, but she does not know if her mother knew she was being molested by her father. With her father's double life exposed, and her family homeless, Heche would spend the next 20 years in a tortured search.
My father loved movie stars. I decided I needed to become famous to get his love. My mother loved Jesus. That was her thing. So I wanted to become Jesus Christ. To get away from her painful upbringing, Heche says, "I drank.
I smoked. I did drugs. I had sex with people. My mother preaches to this day the opposite of that core of my life. It is no mistake that she still stands up against love. And one wonders why I'm not rushing to have her meet my children. The "Love Won Out" conference on sexuality sponsored by Focus on the Family and Exodus International drew protests from gay rights activist groups. Nancy Heche said she has spoken at four or five conferences this year, addressing the issue of homosexuality from an evangelical Christian viewpoint.
The conferences teach that homosexuals can change their orientation. My heart has been changed by the love of God. That's my message. Heche said she earned a master's degree in pastoral counseling at Loyola University in Chicago and a doctorate of ministry in counseling from Northwestern University's Garrett Seminary.
She has an education degree from Indiana University and had worked as a school teacher, a stockbroker and a banker before becoming a counselor. She and her husband, Don Heche, had five children. One child, Cynthia, died in infancy. A son, Nate, died in a car crash at 18, shortly after his father's death. Actor Eliza Pryor Nagel. Singer KG Crown. Anne Heche. Contents show. Biography: Age and more. Early Life and Education. Career Information.
Anne Heche Net Worth. Height and more. Boyfriend and Dating. Husband and Children. Quick Wiki and Bio. And when the story broke, it brought everything back to the surface. Anne believes that many of the young women who become actresses were targeted by Weinstein because he sensed their vulnerability and that her previous experience with abuse had given her the strength to walk away, and saved her from the fate of Rose McGowan and so many others of Weinstein's victims.
Then she fell in love, and it all fell to pieces. Anne fell in love with actress and comedian Ellen DeGeneres, and the two women became Hollywood's first openly gay female couple. DeGeneres' sitcom was canceled, and Anne's career dried up. Today, Anne and DeGeneres are considered pioneers, but back in the mids, being openly gay women was the kiss of death.
The relationship with DeGeneres lasted for 3 years and ended when Anne left the comedian for Coleman Laffoon. Anne married Laffoon, a cameraman she had met in during DeGeneres' stand-up comedy tour, and the couple welcomed a son, Homer, in The couple divorced in , after Anne became romantically involved with her "Men in Trees" co-star James Tupper.
Tupper and Anne welcomed a son, Atlas, in The couple was together until , and their separation ended in a bitter battle over the custody of their son, and child support settlement. The actress claimed that Tupper earns more than she does due to the success of the series "Big Little Lies" and "A Million Little Things," while her own career is currently less successful.
Anne is now in a relationship with former "Hung" co-star Thomas Jane.
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