Unstable Facts About Anne Heche, The Crazy Honest It Girl
Anne Heche was, by her own confession, Hollywood’s most insane “It Girl.” Sadly, for Heche, her on-screen awesomeness never outshined her off-screen antics—right up to her tragic demise.
From interstellar spiritual alter egos to the better half of the world’s “first gay supercouple”—Heche’s life had it all. And then some.
1. She Had Monsters In Her Bed
Anne Heche was born in May of 1969 to Nancy and Donald Joe Heche in small-town Ohio. To everyone else, the Heche family looked like a nice fundamentalist Christian family. But there was something much darker lurking behind their front door. For Anne Heche, the monster in her closet was all too real.
2. Her Father’s Demons Followed Her
Heche’s childhood was just as scandalous as her headline-grabbing Hollywood career. Her father, Donald Joe, never seemed to have a steady job and was full of failed get-rich-quick-schemes that forced the family to move often.
But wherever they went, Heche noticed that her father’s demons followed them. They would stalk her for the rest of her life.
3. She Was The Breadwinner
Heche’s life of fame and fortune was a long way off. At the height of her success, she recalled a time when “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,”
As a preteen, she took a job waiting tables at a dinner theater just to help make ends meet, dreaming of the day she would be on stage.
4. She Lost Her Father
Tragedy—or, as it would prove to be in the years to come, sheer good luck—struck Heche’s family when she was just 13 years old. Her father passed away from complications of AIDS. Heche knew exactly how her church-choir-directing father contracted the illness, too. In fact, she knew all of his deepest and darkest secrets.
