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This is really sad. She had such a sad life and now she's sadly passed away.
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Even as the on-screen star stepped into the Hollywood spotlight, she could not escape the darkness of her childhood, when she was sexually abused at the hands of her devout Baptist father, who gave her herpes as a toddler before he became one of the first people in the United States to die of AIDS.
'I think everything I've done in all my insanity was to try to get my parents to love me,' Heche once said.
'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.'
Heche died today at the age of 53 from injuries sustained in a horrific car crash last Friday, after spending nearly a week on life support, a tragic end to a life spent desperately trying to overcome the trauma of her earliest years.
Despite her turbulent childhood, Heche found fame in the film industry, where she was known for her demure and complex onscreen roles throughout the 1990s. But fame is fickle, especially in that chatterbox of a town that can so quickly turn on its brightest stars.
Just as Heche looked destined to deliver on her youthful promise, she struggled with her inner demons on a world stage.
Her father, Donald, led a bizarre duplicitous life. By day, he was a closeted homosexual and God-fearing Baptist choir leader; by night, he left Heche's mother and four children at home to cruise gay bars in their hometown of Aurora, Ohio.
'He raped me... he fondled me, he put me on all fours and had sex with me,' Heche disclosed in her unsparingly candid 2001 memoir, titled 'Call Me Crazy.'
Heche told The Advocate in a November 2001 interview saying: 'My father was a schizophrenic. He lived two complete lives, one as a heterosexual man who directed the choir and had a family and one who went away. We didn't know what he did until years later.'
When Heche was 13, he died of AIDS in 1983, leaving the family destitute and homeless.
Three months later, Heche's 18-year-old brother, Nathan, crashed his car into a tree and was killed, in an act that Heche thinks was intentional suicide. That's just scratching the surface of the actress's troubled and tragic life.
Her family is keeping her on life support, even though she has officially been declared 'brain dead'; she is being kept on a ventilator to determine if her organs are viable for donation.
It was revealed that she was high on cocaine when she careened her blue Mini Cooper into a Los Angeles house at 90 mph last Friday, which immediately sparked a massive fire and took 59 firefighters to extricate the actress from the wreckage.
Though she was reportedly communicative at the time, Heche slipped into a coma shortly after and never regained consciousness. She is said to have suffered from a 'severe anoxic brain injury.'
Heche is survived by her two sons, Atlas, 13 and Homer, 20. In a statement made to the public, her family said: 'She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.'
Heche was born the youngest of five children on May 25, 1969 in Aurora, Ohio. Her sister, Cynthia died as an infant of a heart defect.
Her mother Nancy, was a housewife whom Heche once described as 'eerily compliant' while her father was a med-school dropout with a checkered professional life. Her family constantly move around as her father struggled to provide for his family by working as a Methodist choir organist.
He said that he was involved in a business of gas and oil. And he said that until the day he died. But he never was involved in the business of gas and oil ever,' Heche told Larry King in 2001.
'We were poor, but we said we were rich. We were falling apart, but we said we were good Christians. We had a father who lived a double life, but we pretended that we were absolutely fine,' she said to The Tampa Bay Times. 'We lived on the streets but said we didn't. Everything we did was a lie. Denial, denial, denial.'
The Heche family joined a fundamentalist Christian sect in the 1960s and moved to a rural religious compound where they were completely cutoff from the modern world. In her own 2006 memoir, 'The Truth Comes Out,' Nancy Heche explained that she 'missed the '60s there, never reading a newspaper, listening to the radio or watching television.'
Don was always hatching doomed 'million dollar' business schemes that were supposed to bail the family out of poverty, but inevitably, Heche and her three siblings were forced to live off the kindness of strangers and neighbors.
'We all played this false game that we were a happy family,' Heche once told Allure. 'It wasn't until we got kicked out of our last house that we all suddenly realized we'd been lied to.'
The sexual abuse Heche experienced at the hands of her father lasted until she was 12-years-old.
'He raped me, he stuck his d**k in my mouth, he fondled me, he put me on all fours, and had sex with me,' said Heche in an interview with Barbara Walters, qualifying that the abuse started when she was an infant.
In her memoir, Anne recalled how her mother had trouble putting diapers on her as a baby because of rashes and sores she had on her vagina, but never knew they were herpes, or where they came from.
'I had a rash, I had sores, I had welts on my nose and on my lips,' said the actress.
'My mother was a good Christian woman. She did not confront her husband. She didn't ask questions. She didn't scream. She didn't yell,' explained Heche.
When Heche was 12, the family resettled in New Jersey and it was there that she began her acting career with her first professional role at a dinner theatre production of The Music Man.
'I got $100 a week, which was more than anyone else in my family. We all pooled our money in an envelope in a drawer and saved up enough to move out after a year,' she recalled to the The Telegraph.
'I found heaven on that stage,' she said. 'I'd been given an opportunity to experience a life and a joy that was not in my family.'
In 1983, her father, Donald, became one of the first people in the United States to be diagnosed with AIDS, which was how his family came to learn that the Baptist minister and choir director had been living a secret homosexual double life.
According to Heche, her father never admitted to being gay. He died from the disease at the age of 45.
'He was in complete denial until the day he died,' the actress told CNN's Larry King in 2001. 'We know he got it from his gay relationships. Absolutely. I don't think it was just one. He was a very promiscuous man, and we knew his lifestyle then.
'I think my father was a sexual addict. I think he saw everybody as a sexual being. But I think at that time he was living a very flamboyant homosexual lifestyle. 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 question of what he was doing at that time.'
Heche lived in fear believing that her father might have transmitted AIDS to her, and was told by doctors that she wouldn't know until a number of years later if she actually had the disease.
Very little was known how the disease was spread at the time. She recalled that back then, they believed you could contract the illness 'from touch, you could get it if somebody kissed you. There was so much fear around his death. There was so much shame around his death,' she told Larry King.
After his death, Nancy Heche became a Christian therapist who lectured on the 'evils' of homosexuality. She worked on behalf of James Dobson's 'Focus on the Family' and believed that people could 'overcome' homosexuality through faith in Jesus Christ.
Tragedy struck the family again, just three months later when her brother, Nathan was killed in a car crash after apparently falling asleep at the wheel and crashing into a tree. He was 18.
Heche has said she believes he committed suicide. The Camden Courier-Post reported that Nathan was traveling along on a wet road when he careered into a tree.
After the deaths of her father and brother, Heche and her mother struggled to make a new life in Chicago.
'My days were spent in school, my afternoons were spent working at Haagen-Dazs and other places and my evenings were spent holding my mother, who kept crying,' she told Walters.
'We lived in a one-room apartment. My mom tried to keep it together, but at night she would break down. I didn't cry about their deaths until five years later when I moved out.'
Heche's first real chance at escape happened in 1987 at 17-years-old when she scouted for a soap opera after a high school play performance. She was offered to play twins on the show, 'Another World.'
'I couldn't go. My mother was very religious and maybe she thought it was a sinner's world.
'But I got on the phone and said, 'Send me the ticket. I'm getting on the plane.' I was like, 'Bye!' I did my time with my mom in a one-bedroom, skanky apartment and I was done,' recalled Heche.
For her work in 'Another World,' Heche received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 1991.
Her budding career as a Hollywood leading lady continued throughout the 90s, first with an HBO anthology, 'If These Walls Could Talk' starring alongside Cher and Demi Moore.
Then co-starring in a string of box office hits such as 'Donnie Brasco' - where she played the 'thankless role' of an FBI wife, opposite of Johnny Depp.
That was followed by a string of commercial successes in supporting roles with high profile releases: 'Volcano,' 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' and 'Wag the Dog' alongside Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman in 1997.
Heche said in her book that during her 20s, she had romantic affairs with much older men such as comedian Steve Martin and Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsay Buckingham. In her book, Heche wrote about her thoughts of Martin saying: 'Why couldn't my father have been more like him?'
'I think I, and my sisters, started looking around for a real father in some ways.'
In 1998, Heche revived the role of Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant's remake of 'Pyscho.' A critic for the New York Times said she was 'refreshingly cast in Marion's role,' while noting that her portrayal was 'as almost as demure as Ms. [Janet] Leigh's, yet she's also more headstrong and flirty.'
During an upswing in her career, Heche began receiving therapy for her tumultuous childhood. She confronted her mother about the abuse. 'She hung up the phone on me,' Heche recalled to Barbara Walters. 'To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me broke my heart. And in that moment, I split off from myself.'
During this time, Heche spiraled into moments of madness where she had an alternative personality named Celestia, whom she believed was the reincarnation of God, spoke a different language and had special powers.
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Triumph and tragedy: Actress Anne Heche dead at 53
Actress Anne Heche, 53, has died from injuries following a fiery car crash that left her on life support. A tragic endcap to a lifetime marred by trauma, mental illness, addictions and sexual abuse
- Heche, 53, has died from injuries sustained in a fiery car crash, one week after she careened her Mini Cooper into a Los Angeles home while driving under the influence of cocaine at 90 mph
- Her family is keeping her on life support, even though she has officially been declared 'brain dead'; she is being kept on a ventilator to determine if her organs are viable for donation
- The actress has been open in the past about her difficult childhood and the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, a closeted homosexual who worked as a Baptist minister and choir director
- Heche said her schizophrenic 'sexual deviant' father gave her genital herpes as an infant and 'forced her on all fours' to rape her; when she confronted her mother years later, she responded 'Jesus loves you Anne'
- Her father was one of the first people in the US to be diagnosed with AIDS after it emerged he lived a secret life as a homosexual; he succumbed to the virus in 1983 when the actress was 13
- Following his death, Heche's mother began a lifelong religious crusade against homosexuality and admonished her daughter multiple times for her sexuality
- Months after her father's death, Heche's brother died when he plowed his car into a tree which Heche said was an intentional suicide
- Heche is survived by her two sons, Atlas Tupper, 13 and Homer Laffoon, 20; in a statement her family said: 'She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light'
Even as the on-screen star stepped into the Hollywood spotlight, she could not escape the darkness of her childhood, when she was sexually abused at the hands of her devout Baptist father, who gave her herpes as a toddler before he became one of the first people in the United States to die of AIDS.
'I think everything I've done in all my insanity was to try to get my parents to love me,' Heche once said.
'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.'
Heche died today at the age of 53 from injuries sustained in a horrific car crash last Friday, after spending nearly a week on life support, a tragic end to a life spent desperately trying to overcome the trauma of her earliest years.
Despite her turbulent childhood, Heche found fame in the film industry, where she was known for her demure and complex onscreen roles throughout the 1990s. But fame is fickle, especially in that chatterbox of a town that can so quickly turn on its brightest stars.
Just as Heche looked destined to deliver on her youthful promise, she struggled with her inner demons on a world stage.
Her father, Donald, led a bizarre duplicitous life. By day, he was a closeted homosexual and God-fearing Baptist choir leader; by night, he left Heche's mother and four children at home to cruise gay bars in their hometown of Aurora, Ohio.
'He raped me... he fondled me, he put me on all fours and had sex with me,' Heche disclosed in her unsparingly candid 2001 memoir, titled 'Call Me Crazy.'
Heche told The Advocate in a November 2001 interview saying: 'My father was a schizophrenic. He lived two complete lives, one as a heterosexual man who directed the choir and had a family and one who went away. We didn't know what he did until years later.'
When Heche was 13, he died of AIDS in 1983, leaving the family destitute and homeless.
Three months later, Heche's 18-year-old brother, Nathan, crashed his car into a tree and was killed, in an act that Heche thinks was intentional suicide. That's just scratching the surface of the actress's troubled and tragic life.
Her family is keeping her on life support, even though she has officially been declared 'brain dead'; she is being kept on a ventilator to determine if her organs are viable for donation.
It was revealed that she was high on cocaine when she careened her blue Mini Cooper into a Los Angeles house at 90 mph last Friday, which immediately sparked a massive fire and took 59 firefighters to extricate the actress from the wreckage.
Though she was reportedly communicative at the time, Heche slipped into a coma shortly after and never regained consciousness. She is said to have suffered from a 'severe anoxic brain injury.'
Heche is survived by her two sons, Atlas, 13 and Homer, 20. In a statement made to the public, her family said: 'She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.'
Heche was born the youngest of five children on May 25, 1969 in Aurora, Ohio. Her sister, Cynthia died as an infant of a heart defect.
Her mother Nancy, was a housewife whom Heche once described as 'eerily compliant' while her father was a med-school dropout with a checkered professional life. Her family constantly move around as her father struggled to provide for his family by working as a Methodist choir organist.
He said that he was involved in a business of gas and oil. And he said that until the day he died. But he never was involved in the business of gas and oil ever,' Heche told Larry King in 2001.
'We were poor, but we said we were rich. We were falling apart, but we said we were good Christians. We had a father who lived a double life, but we pretended that we were absolutely fine,' she said to The Tampa Bay Times. 'We lived on the streets but said we didn't. Everything we did was a lie. Denial, denial, denial.'
The Heche family joined a fundamentalist Christian sect in the 1960s and moved to a rural religious compound where they were completely cutoff from the modern world. In her own 2006 memoir, 'The Truth Comes Out,' Nancy Heche explained that she 'missed the '60s there, never reading a newspaper, listening to the radio or watching television.'
Don was always hatching doomed 'million dollar' business schemes that were supposed to bail the family out of poverty, but inevitably, Heche and her three siblings were forced to live off the kindness of strangers and neighbors.
'We all played this false game that we were a happy family,' Heche once told Allure. 'It wasn't until we got kicked out of our last house that we all suddenly realized we'd been lied to.'
The sexual abuse Heche experienced at the hands of her father lasted until she was 12-years-old.
'He raped me, he stuck his d**k in my mouth, he fondled me, he put me on all fours, and had sex with me,' said Heche in an interview with Barbara Walters, qualifying that the abuse started when she was an infant.
In her memoir, Anne recalled how her mother had trouble putting diapers on her as a baby because of rashes and sores she had on her vagina, but never knew they were herpes, or where they came from.
'I had a rash, I had sores, I had welts on my nose and on my lips,' said the actress.
'My mother was a good Christian woman. She did not confront her husband. She didn't ask questions. She didn't scream. She didn't yell,' explained Heche.
When Heche was 12, the family resettled in New Jersey and it was there that she began her acting career with her first professional role at a dinner theatre production of The Music Man.
'I got $100 a week, which was more than anyone else in my family. We all pooled our money in an envelope in a drawer and saved up enough to move out after a year,' she recalled to the The Telegraph.
'I found heaven on that stage,' she said. 'I'd been given an opportunity to experience a life and a joy that was not in my family.'
In 1983, her father, Donald, became one of the first people in the United States to be diagnosed with AIDS, which was how his family came to learn that the Baptist minister and choir director had been living a secret homosexual double life.
According to Heche, her father never admitted to being gay. He died from the disease at the age of 45.
'He was in complete denial until the day he died,' the actress told CNN's Larry King in 2001. 'We know he got it from his gay relationships. Absolutely. I don't think it was just one. He was a very promiscuous man, and we knew his lifestyle then.
'I think my father was a sexual addict. I think he saw everybody as a sexual being. But I think at that time he was living a very flamboyant homosexual lifestyle. 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 question of what he was doing at that time.'
Heche lived in fear believing that her father might have transmitted AIDS to her, and was told by doctors that she wouldn't know until a number of years later if she actually had the disease.
Very little was known how the disease was spread at the time. She recalled that back then, they believed you could contract the illness 'from touch, you could get it if somebody kissed you. There was so much fear around his death. There was so much shame around his death,' she told Larry King.
After his death, Nancy Heche became a Christian therapist who lectured on the 'evils' of homosexuality. She worked on behalf of James Dobson's 'Focus on the Family' and believed that people could 'overcome' homosexuality through faith in Jesus Christ.
Tragedy struck the family again, just three months later when her brother, Nathan was killed in a car crash after apparently falling asleep at the wheel and crashing into a tree. He was 18.
Heche has said she believes he committed suicide. The Camden Courier-Post reported that Nathan was traveling along on a wet road when he careered into a tree.
After the deaths of her father and brother, Heche and her mother struggled to make a new life in Chicago.
'My days were spent in school, my afternoons were spent working at Haagen-Dazs and other places and my evenings were spent holding my mother, who kept crying,' she told Walters.
'We lived in a one-room apartment. My mom tried to keep it together, but at night she would break down. I didn't cry about their deaths until five years later when I moved out.'
Heche's first real chance at escape happened in 1987 at 17-years-old when she scouted for a soap opera after a high school play performance. She was offered to play twins on the show, 'Another World.'
'I couldn't go. My mother was very religious and maybe she thought it was a sinner's world.
'But I got on the phone and said, 'Send me the ticket. I'm getting on the plane.' I was like, 'Bye!' I did my time with my mom in a one-bedroom, skanky apartment and I was done,' recalled Heche.
For her work in 'Another World,' Heche received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 1991.
Her budding career as a Hollywood leading lady continued throughout the 90s, first with an HBO anthology, 'If These Walls Could Talk' starring alongside Cher and Demi Moore.
Then co-starring in a string of box office hits such as 'Donnie Brasco' - where she played the 'thankless role' of an FBI wife, opposite of Johnny Depp.
That was followed by a string of commercial successes in supporting roles with high profile releases: 'Volcano,' 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' and 'Wag the Dog' alongside Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman in 1997.
Heche said in her book that during her 20s, she had romantic affairs with much older men such as comedian Steve Martin and Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsay Buckingham. In her book, Heche wrote about her thoughts of Martin saying: 'Why couldn't my father have been more like him?'
'I think I, and my sisters, started looking around for a real father in some ways.'
In 1998, Heche revived the role of Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant's remake of 'Pyscho.' A critic for the New York Times said she was 'refreshingly cast in Marion's role,' while noting that her portrayal was 'as almost as demure as Ms. [Janet] Leigh's, yet she's also more headstrong and flirty.'
During an upswing in her career, Heche began receiving therapy for her tumultuous childhood. She confronted her mother about the abuse. 'She hung up the phone on me,' Heche recalled to Barbara Walters. 'To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me broke my heart. And in that moment, I split off from myself.'
During this time, Heche spiraled into moments of madness where she had an alternative personality named Celestia, whom she believed was the reincarnation of God, spoke a different language and had special powers.
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