american actress Anne Heche died this Friday, August 12 at the age of 53, having been disconnected from the artificial respirator that kept her alive at the West Hills hospital in Los Angeles, where she was taken last Friday, August 5, when she was involved in a traffic accident.
The car he was driving was reported to have spun out of control and hit a house, causing the vehicle to catch fire.
Already in the hospital, the actress fell into a coma and the analyzes that were carried out found the presence of drugs in her blood. On Thursday they had declared her brain dead. and his agony only lasted a few hours to see if some of his organs might be useful for a transplant.
Tragedy accompanied his life from beginning to end.
Anne Celeste Heche became famous during the 1990s following her appearance in the novel “Another World”, although he had started his first jobs at age 12 in order to help his family.
Years later he made the leap to cinema, with films like “Donnie Brasco” with Johnny Depp, “Six days and seven nights” with Harrison Ford and in the thriller “Return to Paradise”, with Joaquin Phoenix and Vince Vaughn.
The actress’s life was plagued with pain and anguish, since from an early age she dealt with a dark family past that led her to reveal her problems with mental health to the public.
Heche suffered the loss of three of her four siblings. Ella’s sister Cynthia died at two months of age due to a heart defect; furthermore, the Heches were constantly on the move as his father struggled to support the family. Born in Ohio, eventually settled in Chicago during his teens, but in 1983, his father, Donald, became one of the first people in the US to be diagnosed with HIV, and that’s how his family learned that the Baptist minister and choir director he had been living a secret life.
In a 1998 interview with Allure, Heche said her father lived as a religious choir leader while touring gay bars at night. He died of the disease at age 45.
“We were poor, but we said we were rich. We had a father who lived a double life, but we pretended that we were absolutely fine. We lived on the streets, but we denied it. Everything we did was a lie, ”the actress admitted regarding her family.
He added: “We lived in a one-bedroom apartment. My mom tried to keep her composure, but at night she would break down. I spent my days at school my followingnoons working at Haagen-Dazs and other places and my nights hugging my mother”.
In her 2001 memoir, “Call Me Crazy,” Heche revealed that she was sexually abused by her father and contracted genital herpes. “He raped me… fondled me, put me on all fours and abused me,” she wrote. He also said that his mother always knew and decided to remain silent.
“I think my father was a sex addict. I think he saw everyone as a sexual being. But I think at the time I was living a very extravagant lifestyle,” he told Larry King during an interview in 2001.
Three months following their father’s death, Heche’s 18-year-old brother, Nathan, died in a car accident following falling asleep at the wheel and crashing into a tree, although the actress is convinced that he committed suicide.
His sister, Susan Bergman, who published her own memoir regarding her childhood in 1994, said their father was constantly looking for deals that often left the family in destitution and that they discovered that their father was gay the same year he died.
The actress’s sister died of a brain tumor in 2006.
In 2019, Bergman’s widower passed away along with his second wife. when a drunk driver hit the taxi they were traveling in.
thanks to a paper in a 2004 TV movie called “Gracie’s Choice,” where Heche played an abusive alcoholic mother, she told the Los Angeles Times that she accepted the idea that her mother didn’t love her.
Speaking regarding how her mother ignored the abuse she faced from her father, Heche said: “I always wondered if my mother was aware, if you can treat children that way and still love them.”
In preparation for her role in the thriller “The Vanished,” Heche said that she also used her real-life trauma as motivation: “The thing regarding grief and loss is that you don’t have to do much research. if you have experienced it on different levels. This character, losing his son, required a deep dive into the pain I’ve been through in my life. Unfortunately, there have been multiple deaths in my family.”
Both her mother and her only sister, Abigail, have repeatedly denied that their father abused Anne. Surely that had a lot to do with the fact that in his later years She was completely separated from her family.
Her two-year relationship with comedian Steve Martin made them one of the most popular couples in the world.
He then starred in another much talked regarding courtship with Lindsey Buckingham, guitarist for the group Fleetwood Mac. Heche said in her book that for 20 years she had romantic affairs with much older men and wrote regarding her thoughts on Martin saying, ‘Why mightn’t my father be like him?’
In 1997 it became a symbol of the LGTBIQ + collective by making his relationship with the presenter and comedian Ellen DeGeneres public, even announcing that they would marry when same-sex weddings were legal in the country.
After breaking up her long relationship with Degeneres, the actress made headlines when she was arrested in Fresno, California, for wandering around in her underwear and breaking into a stranger’s house. She took a bath and asked if she would lend her clothes and, when the police arrived, she told the agents that she was the “sent of God” and that she was going to take everyone to heaven in her spaceship. .
Anne revealed that, following multiple abuses experienced in childhood, had created a parallel personality called “Celestia”, who was a daughter of God and sister of Jesus, whose mission was to make the world a better place following receiving messages from outer space.
“I had a fantasy world that I escaped into. I named my other personality Celestia. I thought I was from another planet,” she told ABC News in 2001. Years following the incident, the actress admitted she was under the influence of ecstasy and had a “psychotic break.”
