Anne Heche Memoir Excerpt Recalls Time Harrison Ford Got Upset About Her Dating Ellen!
20.01.2023 - 00:33
/ perezhilton.com
An excerpt from the late Anne Heche’s posthumous memoir has arrived, and boy is it telling of ’90s mindsets…
As you know, the 53-year-old tragically died in a Los Angeles car crash last August, leaving behind sons Homer Laffoon, 20, and Atlas Heche Tupper, 13, as well as an important legacy and an unfinished memoir. We previously reported that her eldest son, Homer, was granted control over his mother’s estate. Earlier this month he announced that he would be going forward with releasing her memoir, as it’s what she “would have wanted.”
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People has acquired an excerpt from the highly anticipated memoir, Call Me Anne, a follow up to her 2001 book, Call Me Crazy, and it outlines JUST how challenging it was for the Emmy-winner when she went public with her relationship with ex-girlfriend Ellen Degeneres in 1997. One story in particular about her co-star Harrison Ford is pretty icky. She wrote:
Oh, it’s a problem for them? She continued:
Seriously? UGH! The old don’t-ask-don’t-tell ’90s, when it was OK to be gay as long as no one ever had to know about it. Gross.
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Anne was clearly living a few years ahead of these men — she didn’t understand what the problem was!
We wish we were making this up. How terrible and alienating… Especially on the set of her FIRST major movie?? Come on, Indy. This is the kind of homophobia that kills a young person’s courage. The excerpt continues:
She explained exactly why she never wanted to keep her love life a secret:
What a triumphant and authentic success story — we hope it gives readers who may be going through similar situations the courage to live their life more