American actress Anne Heche died this Friday, August 12, at the age of 53. after being disconnected from the artificial respirator that kept her alive at West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles, where she was admitted in a traffic accident last Friday, August 5.
The car he was driving reportedly went out of control and struck a house, causing the vehicle to catch fire.
Already in the hospital, the actress fell into a coma, and the analyzes carried out revealed the presence of drugs in her blood. They pronounced her brain dead on Thursday. and his agony lasted only a few hours to see if some of his organs could be useful for transplantation.
Tragedy accompanied his life from beginning to end.
Anne Celeste Heche became famous in the 1990s for her appearance in the novel Another World, although he started his first jobs at the age of 12 to help his family.
Years later he made the leap to the cinema, with films like “Donnie Brasco” with Johnny Depp, Six Days and Seven Nights with Harrison Ford and the thriller Return to Paradise with Joaquin Phoenix and Vince Vaughn.
The actress’ life has been riddled with pain and fear as she came to terms with a dark family past from a young age that led her to reveal her mental health struggles to the public.
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Heche suffered the loss of three of her four siblings. His sister Cynthia died of a heart defect when she was two months old; In addition, the Heches were constantly on the move as their father struggled to support the family. Born in Ohio, eventually settled in Chicago as a teenager, but in 1983 his father, Donald, was one of the first people in the United States to be diagnosed with HIV, allowing his family to learn that he had led a secret life as a Baptist minister and choir director.
In a 1998 interview with Allure Heche said her father lived as a religious choirmaster during his tour gay bars at night. He died of the disease at the age of 45.
“We were poor, but we said we were rich. We had a father who lived a double life but we acted like we were absolutely fine. We lived on the streets, but we denied it. Everything we did was a lie,” the actress admitted of her family.
He added: “We lived in a one bedroom apartment. My mother tried to keep her composure, but at night she collapsed. I spent my days at school my afternoons at Häagen-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, got on all fours and abused me,” she wrote. He also said his mother always knew and chose to remain silent.
“I think my father was a sex addict. I think he saw everyone as a sexual being. But I think I lived a very flamboyant lifestyle back then,” he said in a 2001 interview with Larry King.
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Three months after the death of their father, Heche’s 18-year-old brother, Nathan, died in a car accident after falling asleep at the wheel and crashes into a tree, although the actress is convinced she committed suicide.
His sister Susan Bergman, who published her own memoir about her childhood in 1994, said her father was constantly looking for deals, which often ended the family in distress and that they found out their father was gay the same year he died.
The actress’ sister died of a brain tumor in 2006.
In 2019, Bergman’s widower died 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 about how her mother ignored the abuse she was subjected to from her father, Heche said: “I’ve always wondered if my mother knew when you can treat kids like that and still love them.”
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In preparation for her role in the thriller The Vanished, Heche said she also used her real-life trauma as motivation: “The thing about grief and loss is that you don’t have to do a lot of research. if you have experienced it on different levels. This character losing his son required a deep dive into the pain I’ve been going through in my life. Unfortunately, there have been several deaths in my family.”
Both her mother and her only sister, Abigail, have repeatedly denied that her father abused Anne. That certainly had a lot to do with the fact that he was in his later years She was completely separated from her family.
Her two-year relationship with comedian Steve Martin made her one of the most popular couples in the world.
He then starred in another much-discussed conversation with Lindsey Buckingham, Guitarist of the group Fleetwood Mac. Heche said in her book that she had romantic affairs with much older men for 20 years and wrote about her thoughts about Martin, saying, “Why couldn’t my father be like him?”
In 1997, it became the symbol of the LGTBIQ+ collective by making his relationship with presenter and comedian Ellen DeGeneres public, even announcing that they would get married if same-sex marriages were legal in the country.
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After ending her long relationship with Degeneres, The actress made headlines when she was arrested in Fresno, California. because she walked around in her underwear and broke into a stranger’s house. She took a bath and asked if he could lend her clothes, and when the police arrived, she told the agents that she was “God’s messenger” and that she would take everyone to heaven in her spaceship.
Anne revealed that she was after multiple childhood abuses 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 after receiving messages from outer space.
“I had a fantasy world that I fled to. I named my alter Celestia. I thought I was from another planet,” she told ABC News in 2001. Years after the incident, the actress admitted she was under the influence of ecstasy and had a “psychotic break”.