Actor Anne Heche taken off life support 9 days after fiery car crash
, struggled for decades with the fallout from a troubled childhood and was part of a groundbreaking same-sex couple in the 1990s.Another Worldwith Harrison Ford and played alongside Demi Moore and Cher in the HBO TV movieShe became one half of Hollywood's most famous same-sex couple at the time when she dated comedian and actress Ellen DeGeneres.
In 2001, she married Coleman Laffoon, a cameraman. After the couple divorced, Heche began a long-term relationship with actor James Tupper which ended in 2018. "He was in complete denial until the day he died," Heche told CNN's Larry King in 2001. She said in 1998 that his death taught her that the most important thing in life is to tell the truth.Heche said her father raped her as a child, causing her mental health struggles for decades after, including frequent fantasies that she was from another planet."But it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.