That's just scratching the surface of the actress's troubled and tragic life. Three months later, Heche's 18-year-old brother, Nathan, crashed his car into a tree and was killed, in an act that Heche thinks was intentional suicide. When Heche was 13, he died of AIDS in 1983, leaving the family destitute and homeless. We didn't know what he did until years later.' He lived two complete lives, one as a heterosexual man who directed the choir and had a family and one who went away. Heche told The Advocate in a November 2001 interview saying: 'My father was a schizophrenic. he fondled me, he put me on all fours and had sex with me,' Heche disclosed in her unsparingly candid 2001 memoir, titled 'Call Me Crazy.' By day, he was a closeted homosexual and God-fearing Baptist choir leader by night, he left Heche's mother and four children at home to cruise gay bars in their hometown of Aurora, Ohio. Her father, Donald, led a bizarre duplicitous life. Just as Heche looked destined to deliver on her youthful promise, she struggled with her inner demons on a world stage. ![]() But fame is fickle, especially in that chatterbox of a town that can so quickly turn on its brightest stars. Heche died today at the age of 53 from injuries sustained in a horrific car crash last Friday, after spending nearly a week on life support, a tragic end to a life spent desperately trying to overcome the trauma of her earliest years.ĭespite her turbulent childhood, Heche found fame in the film industry, where she was known for her demure and complex onscreen roles throughout the 1990s. I decided I needed to become famous to get his love. 'I think everything I've done in all my insanity was to try to get my parents to love me,' Heche once said. She was under the influence of cocaine when she careened her Mini Cooper car into a Los Angeles home at 90 mph, which immediately burst into flames Published: 18:32 BST, 12 August 2022 | Updated: 07:06 BST, 15 August 2022Īctress Anne Heche, 53, has died from injuries following a fiery car crash last week.
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