Anne Heche’s, who died by circumstantial evidence aged 53, was a dual career before and after her homosexual relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. A story that has left her out of the Hollywood games, but with no regrets: “I’m proud to have been part of a revolution that has led us to greater equality. However, there is still a lot to do.”
“On a sad day, I send all my love to Anne’s family, her children and her friends.” A few words in an Instagram story for Ellen DeGeneres says goodbye to Anne Heche, his former partner. It’s not a greeting like the others, and looking back, it’s not hard to see why.
The disappearance of Anne Heche, who died after a car accident on August 12, 2022, is one of those events that mark the drama of the fact and because the actress was obviously premature, she lived to be only 53 years old. She was a valuable performer, although she failed to find roles that concretely appreciate her talent, but the story of her artistic career cannot be separated from that of her personal life, the protagonist romantic relationship with Ellen DeGeneres that caused a sensation at the time and, in a way, paved the way for today’s inclusion.
The love story began in 1997
Heche and Degeneres met in 1997 and instantly bonded. “It was a hard-to-describe chemistry,” the actress later recounted at a Vanity Fair party. And at the same time, DeGeneres admitted that he not only found her attractive, but described her as “one of a kind.” The relationship could only go hand in hand with telling this story, so unconventional at the time and therefore hungry for a necessary narrative.
“Anne Heche is brain dead, the cars are disconnected,” announced the family spokesman
Galeotto was that red carpet
A Time cover in which he publicly declared his homosexuality accompanied the release of the film Vulcan: Los Angeles in 1997. Heche walked the red carpet there with Ellen DeGeneres and it radically changed public perceptions of both of them, as well as their careers. as Heche recalled in a 2018 interview, “We were told my contract with Fox was ending and I was going to be fired.” The climate of hostility was total and Ellen herself, then the protagonist of the sitcom of the same name, gave her broader shoulders and more Guaranteed safety, admitted she had considered the idea of ending this story: “I tried to get out of his life – he said in 1998 – I think he’s ruining your career and your life, and I don’t think so that he is the right person for you.”
Anne Heche, boycotted for the story with Ellen
Their relationship ended two years later, not without leaving an indelible mark on the world of entertainment and public opinion: “I had an affair with Ellen for three and a half years and the stigma of that relationship has meant that I never set foot in a studio again ten years,” Heche said in 2020 when he was a competitor on Dancing with the Stars in the American version.
The other loves Anne Heche and her two children
Nevertheless, he never denied this time, but defined it as a beautiful bracket in his life. “I am proud to have been part of a revolution that has led us to more equality. However, there is still a lot to do,” she said in a 2020 interview. A life, hers, to which she has a different curve Elbow officiated in the wedding to Coley Laffoon, a cinematographer he met on the set of the sitcom Ellen. A child was born from their relationship before it all came to an end with their separation in 2009. However, since 2007 she has been dating actor James Tupper, with whom she had her second child, Atlas, born in 2009. Story that was then closed in 2018. Nothing trivial in the life of a woman who always chose her fate at the price of sacrificing a dream.