“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit,” Anne Heche’s family said in a statement. 'She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
her from the film industry; she surmised that openly being a lesbian made her an unmarketable leading lady in the eyes of Hollywood execs.
During the press tour for the memoir, the actress also spoke candidly about her struggles with mental illness, including the revelation that she retreated to a fantasy world she called the “Fourth Dimension,” where she was “Celestia,” the half-sister of Jesus Christ. Heche was also estranged from her deeply religious mother, who has written books claiming that being gay was a sin and that belief in Jesus Christ could change one’s sexual orientation.
Heche’s memoir also followed an incident — in the days leading up to Heche and DeGeneres’ breakup — where a shaken and disoriented Heche appeared at a stranger’s house near Los Angeles and, after being invited inside, refused to leave. When sheriff’s deputies asked her why she was there, she reportedly told them she was “God, and was going to take everyone back to heaven in a spaceship.
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