Anne Celeste Heche was an American actress. She first came to recognition portraying twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the soap opera Another World, winning her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards.
Anne Heche mental health: What was Anne Heche suffering from?
Actress Anne Heche says she spent the first 31 years of her life suffering from a mental illness triggered by sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Heche, who landed on gossip pages for her romantic relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, made the comments in an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters.
Anne was born on May 25, 1969, in Aurora, Ohio, the youngest of five children of Nancy Heche and Donald Joseph Heche. Anne’s family moved eleven times during her childhood; at one point, they lived in an Amish community. When asked in a 2001 interview on Larry King Live what her father’s source of income was, Heche replied, “Well, he was a choir director. But I don’t think he made much on that a week.
He said that he was involved in a business of gas and oil, and he said that until the day he died, but he never was involved in the business of gas and oil ever.” The family settled in Ocean City, New Jersey when Anne was twelve years old. Due to the family’s strained finances, she went to work at a dinner theatre in Swainton.
“At the time we’d been kicked out of our house and my family was holed up living in a bedroom in the home of a generous family from our church”, she said. “I got $100 a week, which was more than anyone else in my family. We all pooled our money in an envelope in a drawer and saved up enough to move out after a year.”
On March 3, 1983, when Heche was 13, her 45-year-old father died of HIV/AIDS, which she believed was contracted from a homosexual partner: “He was in complete denial until the day he died. We know he got it from his gay relationships.
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