In ground-breaking fashion, actress Anne Heche and tv host Ellen Degeneres are considered the very first lesbian power couple in Hollywood history. They both struggled with their revelation at the time but those reactions affected one far more thanthe other. Anne Heche is currently fighting for her life as she remains in a coma after the accident she suffered throughout earlier this week.
After meeting, the couple dated from 1997 to the year 2000 and then broke up. Heche famously got into an altercation that involved trespassing a home in Fresno, California. She famously was under the influence of ecstasy and made some wild claims about a spaceship that the world will never forget. Clearly, she was still suffering from her break-up with Ellen.
🙏🏾 for Anne Heche she has a history of mental issues and the world of Hollywood has an atmosphere that swallows up talented & vulnerable people like a black hole (trust me on that one).@abcnews @TMZ @cbs @MailOnline @TheEllenShow @indiatvnews @nbc15_madison @CBS pic.twitter.com/CsIpW8PzJy
— hoopstah (@hooperstarium) August 6, 2022
Where did Anne Heche and Ellen Degeneres meet?
According to Heche herself during a ‘Dancing With the Stars‘ appearance, her and Ellen met at the Vanity Fair party in 1997 and instantly hit it off. They began attending high-profile Hollywood events and quickly became a true item. Initially, Anne Heche was told by the ‘Volcano‘ producers that bringing Ellen Degeneres as her date to the film’s premiere in 1997 would put her career in jeopardy.
From that moment forward, she had to struggle with criticism and scrutiny for being in a lesbian relationship. She ignored the threats and eventually got ostracized as a movie star, Anne Heche has done plenty for the LGBTQ community in the entertainment industry with her relationship alongside one of television’s most beloved hosts. The couple ultimately broke up because the relationship was simply not working.
People change the times and it must be the unstoppable movement! https://t.co/cb3HhA9FdA
— Zhanna Darc (@zdarc) August 6, 2022
Anne Heche’s account of what happened that year after meeting Ellen, details all the struggles she had to face. This is what she told People: “In 1997, I met Ellen DeGeneres at the Vanity Fair party and that was the night that changed my life forever. My movie premiere for Volcano, I had told them that I was taking Ellen as my date and I was told if I took Ellen I would lose my Fox contract.
“At that moment, [DeGeneres] took my hand and said, ‘Do what they say’ and I said, ‘No thanks.’ I took Ellen to the premiere and I was ushered out before the movie even ended and was told I was not allowed to go to my own after party for fear that they would get pictures of me with a woman. She was warning me, ‘This is going to happen’.”
The entire Ellen thing may have been a charade. Heche married a man after her supposed "split" with Ellen, had a baby with him, then divorced him and has a been with another male partner and had another baby.https://t.co/e5iwhTq2fU
— Truth (@1foreverseeking) August 6, 2022
