On this episode of ELTV, we were honored to have Nancy Heche, the mother of Actress, Anne Heche. Nancy shares about how her dream to have the perfect family turned upside down, but lifted her up to higher ground as she chose to trust God in the midst of the storms. She shares about her new book Nancy Heche, The truth comes out! When Nancy wrote this book, her daughter Anne was in a same sex relationship.
Nancy Heche has now outlived four of her five children — in addition to her secretly gay husband, Donald, who died of AIDS in 1983. She admitted in her religion-heavy 2006 memoir, “The Truth Comes Out: When Someone You Love is in a Same-Sex Relationship,” to using amyl nitrate poppers with Donald to improve their sex life and taking married lovers.
Anne died Friday, one week after she drove her blue Mini Cooper at a high speed down an LA street and plowed into a small house, setting it afire along with her car.
Before Anne was born, her sister Cynthia, then just 2 months old, died from a heart defect. Anne’s 18-year-old brother Nathan died in a car accident three months after Don Heche’s death. Another sister, Susan Bergman, who wrote her own family memoir called “Anonymity,” died in 2006 from brain cancer.