Turns out Anne Heche had some choice words for actress Portia de Rossi about dating ex-girlfriend Ellen DeGeneres.
The Emmy winner and Tony nominee, who died last week after a car crash that left her in a coma for seven days, warned de Rossi of the “red flags” that came with dating the comedian
Heche issued the warning in a resurrected clip on his podcast, “Better Together,” just a year before his tragic death at age 53.
“Portia even asked me about Ellen,” Heche told listeners of her ex, with whom she had a breakthrough relationship in the late ’90s. “Portia even said, ‘I’m going to get Ellen.’ , Heche recalled on the June 2021 episode of the podcast.
But Heche warned de Rossi that she would not be the star of that romance.
“You’re not going to be the poster boy, girl, because guess what, that poster boy has already been taken; and by the way, it wasn’t a great place,” Heche told the “Arrested Development” star.
“But, yours won’t get any easier. And I’m telling you now, like, red flag, red flag, red flag!”
Anne Heche reveals how she warned Portia de Rossi not to date Ellen DeGeneres in resurrected clip: “I’m telling you now, like, red flag, red flag, red flag!” Getty Images
Elsewhere on the podcast, Heche joked: “I noticed that Ellen drove a Porsche, and then she married one. All she used to do was drive Porsches and she picked them up and I thought it was so stupid because they were very noisy.”
Heche dated the talk show host “The Ellen Show” from 1997 until their romance ended abruptly in 2000.
The actress was familiar with De Rossi after they both played roles on Fox’s “Ally McBeal.”
Additionally, de Rossi was even invited to her 2001 wedding to ex-husband Coleman Laffoon.
In October 2021, Heche exclusively told Page Six that his ill-fated relationship with DeGeneres ended with her “cancellation.”
“I didn’t do any studio photography for 10 years,” he said. “I got fired from a $10 million picture deal and didn’t see the light of day on a studio picture.”
DeGeneres and de Rossi celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary this week.