I wasn't even looking for it this time around, and there it was.
After seeing her death announced I wondered if she'd left any children behind? And when I went to the wiki--guess what shows up? The story she claims to have carried with her since childhood, the brokenness that ran alongside and behind her acting and acting out, aberrant behaviors and addiction. One that also includes her 18 year old older brother's death from a car accident (hitting a tree) three months after her aberrant father died.
On March 3, 1983, when Heche was 13, her 45-year-old father died of HIV/AIDS, which she believed was contracted from a homosexual partner: "He was in complete denial until the day he died. We know he got it from his gay relationships. Absolutely. I don't think it was just one. He was a very promiscuous man, and we knew his lifestyle then", Heche said on Larry King Live. Heche said that he repeatedly raped her from the time she was an infant until she was 12, giving her genital herpes. When asked "But why would a gay man rape a girl?" in a 2001 interview with The Advocate, Heche replied "I don't think he was just a gay man. I think he was sexually deviant. My belief was that my father was gay and he had to cover that up. I think he was sexually abusive. The more he couldn't be who he was, the more that came out of him in [the] ways that it did. In a 1998 interview, she reflected that her father being closeted ultimately "destroyed his happiness and our family. But it did teach me to tell the truth. Nothing else is worth anything.
Three months after her father's death, Heche's 18-year-old brother Nathan was killed in a car crash. The official determination was that he fell asleep at the wheel and struck a tree, though Heche claims it was suicide.
Out of that horrendous mess of life, death and destruction, she leaves behind two sons (ages 15 and 20) to carry part of her forward, along with whatever organs can be donated. May something of good be realized in that.
Indeed. Her older son, Homer, was trying to look after her affairs the last week. Good for him and her.
Maybe it's me and the times in which we live, but it seems officialdom was awfully eager to bury her looking as bad as possible, as if all the details of her struggles were to be suppressed. After all, she prevailed after a Hellish youth.
Having had a small measure of that, I can admire her strength of character.
ampersand said...
Schrödinger's lesbian.
No, not really. Like a lot of the "gender" and "pronoun" crowd today or the hippie thing 50+ years ago (DBQ, where are you?), it seems to have been a very brief flirtation, dropped long before her sons came along.
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She appears to have been blacklisted for forsaking fish taco.
And the poor lady, much like Linda Darnell, will probably not survive.
Too bad, as, having seen her in a couple of flicks, she was a good actress.
PS Anne with an e, unlike someone else.
Schrödinger's lesbian.
I wasn't even looking for it this time around, and there it was.
After seeing her death announced I wondered if she'd left any children behind? And when I went to the wiki--guess what shows up? The story she claims to have carried with her since childhood, the brokenness that ran alongside and behind her acting and acting out, aberrant behaviors and addiction. One that also includes her 18 year old older brother's death from a car accident (hitting a tree) three months after her aberrant father died.
On March 3, 1983, when Heche was 13, her 45-year-old father died of HIV/AIDS, which she believed was contracted from a homosexual partner: "He was in complete denial until the day he died. We know he got it from his gay relationships. Absolutely. I don't think it was just one. He was a very promiscuous man, and we knew his lifestyle then", Heche said on Larry King Live. Heche said that he repeatedly raped her from the time she was an infant until she was 12, giving her genital herpes. When asked "But why would a gay man rape a girl?" in a 2001 interview with The Advocate, Heche replied "I don't think he was just a gay man. I think he was sexually deviant. My belief was that my father was gay and he had to cover that up. I think he was sexually abusive. The more he couldn't be who he was, the more that came out of him in [the] ways that it did. In a 1998 interview, she reflected that her father being closeted ultimately "destroyed his happiness and our family. But it did teach me to tell the truth. Nothing else is worth anything.
Three months after her father's death, Heche's 18-year-old brother Nathan was killed in a car crash. The official determination was that he fell asleep at the wheel and struck a tree, though Heche claims it was suicide.
Out of that horrendous mess of life, death and destruction, she leaves behind two sons (ages 15 and 20) to carry part of her forward, along with whatever organs can be donated. May something of good be realized in that.
Indeed. Her older son, Homer, was trying to look after her affairs the last week. Good for him and her.
Maybe it's me and the times in which we live, but it seems officialdom was awfully eager to bury her looking as bad as possible, as if all the details of her struggles were to be suppressed. After all, she prevailed after a Hellish youth.
Having had a small measure of that, I can admire her strength of character.
ampersand said...
Schrödinger's lesbian.
No, not really. Like a lot of the "gender" and "pronoun" crowd today or the hippie thing 50+ years ago (DBQ, where are you?), it seems to have been a very brief flirtation, dropped long before her sons came along.
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