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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 support so her organs could be donated following a fiery car crash earlier this month.
The year-old was oft clear about her mental health and addiction struggles throughout her decades-long career in Hollywood, never terrified to discuss the childhood overuse she said she suffered at the hands of her father, or her self-described psychotic separate in the early 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 Fair Oscar party, Heche locked eyes with Ellen DeGeneres, sparking a love story that would serve as many Americans' first exposure to a public figure lesbian couple. The two women went public with their partnership 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 reveals in posthumous memoir she was attracted to Ellen because celebrity was 'honest about her sexuality' - unlike her father who hid truth he was gay: Motion picture director told her to 'be like Jodie Foster' who didn't talk about sexuality
In her posthumous memoir, Call Me Anne, actress Anne Heche wrote that Ellen was the 'first and only woman that I ever fell in love with' and added that she was 'mesmerized' by how open the comedian was about her sexuality.
Famously, Heche dated the talk show host between , in the process becoming one of Hollywood's first openly lesbian couples.
During her life, Heche had been open about the fact that her father, a Baptist choir minister, was a closeted lgbtq+. He passed away due to AIDS complications at 45 in
'I consider my father was a sexual addict. I consider he saw everybody as a sexual being. But I think at that time he was living a very flamboyant lgbtq+ lifestyle,' she told Larry King in a interview. 'You know, at that time there were bath houses where the whole trick was how many can you do a night. You know, there is no quest
Anne Heche Was a Queer Original
I vividly remember the sunlight 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 home of the show’s celebrity, Anne Heche. The house where she lived with her first husband was on a shady, serene 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 matchless 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 senior woman on the planet who had had anything love the kind of bisexual rollercoaster I was on in my own personal life at the time. She was the only person who had ever been honest about it in general, anyway. She was the only female I’d ever seen stand up and say, I’m pretty, In the year before Anne Heche's tragic death, she was writing a sequel to her memoir "Call Me Crazy." Now that publication, titled "Call Me Anne," is set to arrive in January. The actress's first manual, 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 unused memoir and the first one she wrote more than two decades ago.Anne Heche wrote a follow-up memoir before her death. What to know about her upcoming book
What is 'Call Me Anne