Kevin Costner used to be the biggest horses ass in Hollywood…and now here is Anne Heche.
Even Gary Condit is laughing at her.
She takes a walk on the wild side with Ellen, likes what she sees, drops exctasy and ends up driving a tractor around a farm in Fresno.
now she claims to have been insane yet manages to get married, get pregnant, go to therapy, get cured and whip out a book in about 12 months time
So she is out doing tough in depth interviews with Babs Walters and a 2- parter on the Today Show to push the book.
i cant wait to get my copy…
Please, someone explain to me that she is a courageous human being who is just trying to help the other insane people in Hollywood by telling her tragic story.
I understand that she says she was abused by her father, and that is terrible, but does she have to tell about space ships and the 4th dimension and herpes and blah blah blah…
isnt this a bit of a slap in the face to the gay community? “I was bug fuck so I THOUGHT i was gay”?
Not to mention people who really are mentally ill?
Not necessarily. Just because one person thought she was gay (or thinks she thought she was gay), that doesn’t mean that all gay people simply think they are gay.
Although you’ll find some religious nutcase (like my dad) who will point to Mrs. Heche - “I thought I was gay” - and conclude that to be the typical homosexual experience. But it’s hardly Mrs. Heche’s fault that other people are stupid.
The painful thing for me (and I suspect there are a few other Dopers in the same situation ) is that I know exactly what Ellen is going through.
She’s thinking “How could I have thought that idiot was worth even an hour of my time? Where was my judgement? Do I have any?”
It’s awful when the light of love finally leaves your eyes, and you realise that every good quality your ex-SO had was one that you endowed them with. That all those irritating little habits that you so generously overlooked were in fact ALL THERE WAS!! That they are in fact one Big Irritating Habit!!! (sorry about the shouting).
I don’t think there’ll be any happy reunions between those two. Poor Ellen. You never get over it, do you?
Anne Heche is a freak, an idiot, and the type of person who gives mental illness a bad name.
However, she’s pregnant. With a mother like her, that kid is going to be disturbed (how hard would it be, growing up in Hollywood as the son or daughter of one of the world’s most famous lesibians?), and in 18 years or so, Jr. will no doubt come out with some fascinating relevations about Mommy Dearest. I just hope her parents live long enough to see their grandchild take their revenge for them
I watched the interview on Larry King twice - it was like a car accident that you just have to watch…
I don’t have a problem with her saying she developed Dissociative Identity Disorder ( used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder) from being sexually abused… Having been sexually abused as a kid, I could easily see how it could happen to people to deal with things out of their control… I’ve met lots of Survivors who have split off parts of themselves to survive the abuse.
But I’m not sure if part of DID has anything to do with believing you’re God, and believing that you can talk with God… I believe that is called mental illness…
And I find it strange that she left Ellen, went wandering in a forest believing she was God and was going to meet a spaceship, and a few months later, she’s “figured out” her whole life…
She kept saying how she “knew” that her new husband was the right one… Funny, I think I heard her say that Ellen was the right one, soul-mate, one for her, whatever, not too long ago…
I saw only parts of the Baba Wawa and Larry King interviews, so maybe I missed the answer to these questions. But did Heche supply any proof of her childhood sexual abuse beyond her (imperfect) memories? I believe both her parents are dead.
And how did she acquire this revelation? Recovered memory therapy?
I always thought she hooked up with Ellen for the publicity. Once Ellen’s career fizzled, the relationship was was similarly doomed. Because Heche wants the cameras, she wants the attention. Remember when she and Ellen practically made out at a presidential function? Geesh, get ye some dignity.
Personally I think we’d all be better served if she held a press conference and no one showed up. Turn off the lights and cameras. Then maybe she’ll go away.
Oh, it’s quite worse than you think. The way she described it on Baba Wawa was that she was cured instantly the night she was found wandering in the field. Her friends came to see her, and told her they loved her, and boom. She had the love she needed and immediately was sane.
Get thee to a mental health clinic, and get thee fast.
Woohoo! My fiftieth post! And it only took what a year?
Anne Heche sucks as an actress, and has zero credibility in the leading romantic parts she does get. I think she’s very confused, ill, and I feel sorry for the people she’s suckered into her life and have or will hurt because of her illness, and because of her inability or unwillingness to get real help.
The class act in this drama has been Ellen. Here’s a woman who remained closeted for many years so as not to damage her career, and who came out and had a very public relationship. She then proceeded to have her partner wig out on her. To my knowledge, she hasn’t said anything about Anne’s wedding or pregnancy, which makes her the class act.
I saw about 10 minutes of this train wreck of an interview.
Anne Heche-DeGeneres has got to be one of the most annoying, idiotic people I’ve ever that have ever graced my trinitron.
Let’s tally it up shall we?
[ul]
[li]I met God[/li]
[li]I met aliens[/li]
[li]I was insane, but then magically cured when my friends sprinkled fairy dust on me[/li]
[li]I like men. No wait, women. No, men.[/li]
[li]I was abused (given the previous four, I’d put this in the “somewhat less than 100% credible” category. Not to mention her father isn’t around to defend himself)[/li][/ul]
Final Score: One incredibly irritating moron (even by Hollywood standards)
This media whore will say or do anything to stay in front of the camera.
God I hope no one buys her written diarrhea. It would only encourage her
I saw most of the Baba Wawa interview. She did not say that she had developed MPD, she just said she split off a part of herself. As an abuse survivor, I know that is a common way of surviving the abuse when you are a child and can’t get away from the abuse. However, when she started talking about aliens and hearing the voice of god and speaking a made-up language, I thought, “Hmmm…schizophrenia with a little bit of dissociation thrown in?” I was incredulous when she claimed that she got better instantly as soon as her friends said they loved her. Can you say denial and repression? Someday she’s going to wig out even worse! I was also amazed that she wouldn’t put a name to her “disorder”, she just “knew she was crazy”. It makes her seem like she’s afraid to come out and say, “I was diagnosed with schizophrenia” or whatever. It was interesting, and I will be curious to see what happens with her in the future.
Well I don’t recall her every being a poster child for the gay community. Especially in light of some of her earlier comments such as “I never thought I was a lesbian until I met Ellen” or something like that. Sorry, I don’t have a cite so I could be mistaken. But I wouldn’t call it a big slap in the face. I’m sure we’ve all heard tales about spouses or lovers who have been in heterosexual relationships going into homosexual relationships. Heck, a year or two ago 20/20 had a special about women who became lesbians after years of marriage. I think it is possible for someone to be confused about their sexuality especially if they’re having mental problems.
And as far as this being a slap in the face for people who are “really” mentally ill, well I just don’t see it that way. Obviously there’s something wrong with her and I’m not convinced that she’s cured. But then I’m not a doctor so what do I know about those things?
I think all the ragging on her sexuality is offbase.
I completely appreciate and agree with what she * actually * says about her sexuality, which is this, paraphrased: She does not label herself, and she does not feel the need to label herself. She falls in love with people, not sex organs.
Just because other people feel the need to slap a label on everything, doesn’t mean we have to take the labels on ourselves.
Now aside from this I have to chime in and say that the woman is either severely sick in a manner that causes her to make up strange shit about herself for attention, or she’s extremely sick in the way she described and if she hasn’t had an “episode” since the night in Fresno, she can pretty much guarantee that she will soon enough, because she’s a deeply disturbed person and you don’t just go from that to well overnight.
My mother and I were saying the same thing-she was just an obscure soap opera actress (although she wasn’t bad in Huck Finn), before the Ellen thing-then all of sudden, she’s this big star!
Their relationship was about as real as Lisa Marie’s and Michael’s.
I don’t have a problem with sexuality, Stoid-just people who use their sex lives as a way to look “cool” and “with it.” It’s pathetic.
