Actress Anne Heche, who died in early August at the age of 53 after a car accident, had had time before her disappearance to complete the rest of her memoir. Title call me annaThis new autobiography will be published posthumously in January 2023, its publishers VIva Editions and Simon & Schuster announced on Thursday.
This work, announced as “halfway between the memoir and the book of well-being”, mixes anecdotes from his personal life and his career, poems and dietary advice to cope with difficult times. Anne Heche had returned her manuscript in early August, just before her death.
The actress will speak in particular in her book about her love affair with host Ellen Degeneres, her encounter with Harvey Weinstein, the sexual assaults she suffered as a child and how Harrison Ford took her under his wing in the late 1990s.
“I don’t identify as a lesbian”
In an excerpt obtained by The Associated Press, the actress explains that she has never identified as a lesbian: “They said I was scandalous, because I fell in love with a woman. But before I dated Ellen, I had never been with a woman.” .”
“I do not identify as a lesbian,” she wrote again. “I just fell in love. There are no words to describe how I felt. Gay isn’t really the right word, nor is it straight. I’ve often thought ‘foreign’ is a better word to describe the situation.”
Anne Heche, who had already published an autobiography in 2001, died last August after a car accident in Los Angeles. She acted in a large number of films in the 1990s, including six days, seven nights Where donnie brasco. She is also known for her role in the telenovela Another worldwhich earned him an Emmy in 1991.
Source: BFM TV
