Anne Heche Opens Up About Ellen DeGeneres Relationship In Posthumous Memoir: ‘I Simply Fell In Love!’

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Anne Heche was planning on opening up about her relationship with Elle DeGeneres in the late 1990s. Heche, who died at age 54 on Aug.

14 after a car crash in Los Angeles, was penning the memoir Call Me Anne. The book is a followup to her 2001 book Call Me Crazy and will be posthumously released next year. READ MORE: Anne Heche Death: Horrific Details Revealed In Firefighter Radio Recordings “I was labelled ‘outrageous’ because I fell in love with a woman,” Heche wrote in Call Me Anne, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I had never been with a woman before I dated Ellen.” Heche said she was blackballed by Hollywood for her relationship with DeGeneres; meanwhile, the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” star went on to have a supremely successful and lucrative career. “I did not, personally, identify as a lesbian.

I simply fell in love!” she wrote. “It was, to be clear, as odd to me as anyone else. There were no words to describe how I felt. READ MORE: Ellen DeGeneres Reacts To Ex Anne Heche’s Hospitalization After Car Crash “Gay didn’t feel right, and neither did straight.

Alien might be the best fit, I sometimes thought. What, why, and how I fell in love with a person instead of their gender, I would have loved to have answered if anyone had asked, but as I said earlier, no one ever did.