Post by Admin on Aug 12, 2022 13:32:00 GMT -4
Tragic deaths of her father and brother
In 1983 Donald Heche died of AIDS, being among the first patients diagnosed with the disease in the US. Only 3 months after her father's death, Anne's 18-year-old brother Nathan died in a car accident. He was about to graduate from high school and crashed into a tree. Police ruled it an accident, but Anne, as she wrote in her book 'Call me Crazy,' was certain he had taken his own life.
Actress Anne Heche (53) used to be known as a film star with a Daytime Emmy and several 90s' movie hits to her name. Now, she's referred to as a fallen star, a troubled addict, and someone whose self-inflicted, severe car accident has led her into a coma from which she will not awake.
Abuse and secrecy
In her book 'Call me Crazy' (2001) Anne Heche would claim that she was abused at home. She told several interviewers, including Larry King, that her father lived a secret, promiscuous life and contracted HIV in the early 80s. As she told the Tampa Bay Times, "we were falling apart, but we said we were good Christians... Everything we did was a lie."
'Blacklisted in Hollywood for being with a woman'
"The stigma attached to that relationship was so bad that I was fired from my multi-million dollar picture deal and I did not work in a studio picture for 10 years," she said in 2020, quoted by US Magazine.
John Q, 2002
Heche's acting career took a fall in the 2000s, whether it was over her relationship with a woman or her performance in previous films. Little by little, she did get some projects, such as 'John Q' in 2002 with Ray Liotta.
Stormy private life
Meanwhile, the actress's private life was a wild ride. After nearly getting one of the first legal civil unions for gay couples with Ellen DeGeneres, she had a string of relationships, marriages, children, and divorces with men.
Mental health issues
Following her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, it turned out that Anne Heche was suffering from mental health problems. In August 2000, the day after her breakup with Ellen, Anne was found disoriented wandering outside Fresno, ending up in a stranger's backyard, the LA Times recalls.
"I would meet a spaceship"
She recounts to ABC News: "I was told to go to a place where I would meet a spaceship. I was told in order to get on the spaceship that I would have to take a hit of ecstasy." Heche was admitted into a psychiatric hospital after the episode.
Having a "very bad day"
On the day of her accident, Anne Heche was heard in her podcast saying that she was having a "very bad day." Her speech was slurred. It is unclear whether this podcast was recorded in the morning of her death or at an earlier time.
Her last photo
In the morning of August 5, 2022, she crashed her Mini Cooper into a building in the Los Angeles. Both the car and the house went into flames. Minutes before the accident, she had taken a selfie with a local hair stylist where she had bought a wig. She didn't look like the Anne Heche from the 1990s' and 2000s' red carpets.
'Not expected to survive'
The accident, in which she sustained severe burns and inhaled smoke for about half an hour, led to Heche falling into a coma with serious brain injury. On Thursday August 11, nearly a week after the accident, her publicist announced to The Hollywood Reporter that she was "not expected to survive."
