In 2004, her portrayal of a drug-addicted mother in the TV movie Gracie’s Choice earned her another Emmy nomination, and the same year she brought an enigmatic quality to a supporting role in the controversial Jonathan Glazer Birth, which critic David Thomson praised. like a work of misunderstood greatness.
However, he never found stability in his personal life. In 2001 she married cameraman Coleman Laffoon. They had a son together, but the marriage ended in a costly divorce in 2009 after she fell in love with her Men In Trees co-star James Tupper.
She had another child with Tupper, but that relationship also ended in 2017. A subsequent relationship with Thomas Jane, with whom she had starred as a bitterly divorced couple in the 2009-11 HBO series Hung, was reported to have finished. in 2020.
Nor did relations with his family improve significantly. In 1994 Anne Heche telephoned her mother to confront her about the abuse she said she had suffered from her father. Her mother responded by saying, “Jesus loves you, Anne,” and hung up. They never spoke again and Anne Heche was said to be furious after her breakup with Ellen DeGeneres, when her mother claimed to have transformed her daughter with the power of prayer.
Of Heche’s surviving siblings, Anne’s sister Susan Bergman, author of a memoir about her family’s struggle to cope with their father’s death and to come to terms with the revelation that he had been secretly gay, died of brain cancer in 2006.
She reconciled with her remaining sister Abigail, a jewelry designer, who said in an interview that she believed her sister, in claiming she had been abused by her father, was suffering from false memories.
On August 5, 2022, Anne Heche was involved in two car accidents in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, first when her Mini Cooper hit an apartment complex garage and second , when it crashed into a house. Her car and house burst into flames and she was later taken to hospital with severe burns. It was later reported that he had fallen into a coma.
He is survived by his two children.
Anne Heche, born 25 May 1969 and died 12 August 2022