Lccn 2001042951 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL3950487M Openlibrary_edition A witness shares with Fox News Digital details of actress Anne Heche’s car crash, calling it ‘really horrific.’ Hechehad herpes at age 8; sexual abuse byfather Donald Heche, a closeted gay man, might have begun when she was still in diapers and continued until she was 12.She and her three siblings were often beaten with a wooden spoon.Heche's father, a choir director in a Baptist church who frequented gay bars, died of AIDS in 1983.

Her mother, Nancy, "hung up the phone" on Heche when she confronted her about her father’s abusive past at one point, and has since denied the claims which were published in Heche’s 2001 memoir, "Call Me Crazy." Ann shared personal, raw, and even embarrassing situations that happened to her, but through it all, she managed to deliver a positive and sometimes humorous message, never taking herself or public persona too serious. She definitely did NOT act like a Diva in real or her professional life. Whether one would agree with her message or not would be a personal thing, but one thing was clear to me….she cared. She cared genuinely. She wanted nobody to suffer the pain she had suffered, and a lot of what she shared was her own survival tools she wanted to share with others. Money, fame, power didn’t impress her - genuine acts of kindness did. The memoir helps make sense of some things, including her relationships, her mental illness, and her approach to her art. I wish I had appreciated her more while she was alive. I wish she had lived long enough to have more of a public "rehabilitation" (something more satisfying than a brief stint on Dancing with the Stars), becoming better appreciated by all of us for her talent and verve. And I wish she had had the opportunity to write another memoir, bringing us up-to-date on her life story, showing that she survived the slings and arrows of fame and misfortune, teaching us what she had learned over the years, and enchanting us with ideas for a creative, successful future. In 2000, according to reports, Heche drove to the desert and walked some distance to a stranger’s ranch where she asked to take a shower and then settled in the living room to watch a film.Hechedied Aug. 14 at age 53, nine daysaftershe was pulled from a burning carandhospitalized incritical condition following acrashinto a Los Angeles houseon Aug. 5. I loved that I had another sister. I used to fantasize that I would go to heaven and meet her. 'When I go to heaven I’m going to meet her and we’ll be friends,'I would say with a smile to everyone I met, like it was a good thing that she was dead. It gave me something to look forward to." What are the biggest revelations from 'Call Me Crazy?'

Intimate, articulate, informative, interesting, once again Anne Heche has written an intensely personal memoir that is a simply fascinating and ultimately inspiring, and a 'must read' selection for the legions of Anne Heche fans. Three months after their father died, Heche’s brother, Nathan, died in a car crash, which his sister claimed was suicide. Heche became estranged from her mother soon after. Anne Heath death: Actress dead at 53 after weeklong hospitalization from fiery car crash What is 'Call Me Anne' about?She recently appeared in Peter Facinelli’s psychological thriller The Vanished and had a recurring role on the CBS series All Rise, which now airs on OWN. She will be seen next in Lifetime’s Girl in Room 13, which is scheduled to premiere on September 17.