On Friday, August 12th, 2022, Anne Celeste Heche, 53, passed away due to injuries sustained following a car crash that occurred in the Mar Vista neighborhood on August 5th. Though she is legally deceased, she remains on life support measures for organ donation.
She is survived by her sons, Homer and Atlas, her sister, Abigail Heche, and her mother (whom she previously mentioned being estranged from) Nancy Heche.
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The actress and advocate began her career in 1987 when she secured a role on the daytime soap “Another World” (1987)— Disney’s “The Adventures of Huck Finn” (1993), “If These Walls Could Talk” (1996), “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997), Volcano (1997), “Psycho”(1998), “Prozac Nation” (1998), and “My Friend Dahmer” (2017).
She is known for her public relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, which lasted from 1997 to 2000. She became more of an interest to the media during this relationship, since it was not common for same-sex celebrity couples to be out in the public eye.
According to Insider, “Heche in interviews and podcast appearances often recounted the story of the premiere for her 1997 film ‘Volcano.’
‘I was told by Fox Studio executives that if I brought Ellen to the premiere, my contract would be terminated,’ she told Mr. Warburton. ‘I brought Ellen despite those threats, and we were escorted out of the theater before the lights came on by security and not allowed to attend the premiere party because they did not want any photos of us together.’”
“You Might Know Her From” podcast said she was the first leading actor to bring a same-sex partner to a premiere, and as a result, didn’t make another studio picture for ten years after the premiere.
She also wrote a memoir in 2001, “Call Me Crazy,” and started a podcast in 2020, “Better Together,” with her friend Heather Duffy. She talks about her childhood and her struggles with her mental health, and Larry King described her memoir as “honest and outspoken” in an interview with the actress.
“I am left with a deep, wordless sadness,” wrote Heche’s son with Lafoon, Homer, in a statement shared with NPR via Baird. “Hopefully my mom is free from pain and beginning to explore what I like to imagine as her eternal freedom.”
An Atlanta-based actress, model, writer, and screenwriter, Miranda started her career on stage in high school. She figured out that acting and writing were two passions of hers that allowed her to constructively express her emotions through character and narrative. In 2022, she packed up her cat and everything she owned to move across the US to Atlanta to further pursue opportunities in the entertainment industry. She is currently working on a novel and the screenplay adaptation for the novel, and enjoys designing graphics.
