re: Anne Heche Updated passed away - dead at 53.

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She either had a fricked up childhood or has made most of that up for attention. Either way she’s got some major psych issues to get past.

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In 1983, Heche's husband died of AIDS. Upon learning of the diagnosis, Heche became aware that her husband had been leading a double life as a homosexual. Three months following the death of her husband, Heche's 18-year-old son Nathan was killed in a car crash.

In 1997, Heche's daughter, Anne, publicly announced her relationship with comedian Ellen DeGeneres. Heche said, "She became sort of the poster child for coming out and bringing the whole homosexual issue into the public eye and even glamorizing and humorizing it, laughing about it, making it just another kind of love relationship". Heche said her daughter's sexuality was "like a betrayal of an unspoken vow: We will never have anything to do with homosexuals."

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