Sunday 14 August 2022 03:58 AM Anne Heche's mom, 85, has now lost FOUR of her five children and husband, who ... trends now
Anne Heche's Christian psychologist 85-year-old mother had already survived three of her five children, and her husband, prior to the tragic death of her actress daughter on Friday.
The Six Days, Seven Nights star was pronounced dead on August 12 at the age of 53 a week after she was involved in multiple car crashes. Heche first slammed into a garage at an apartment building, then careened into a home in her blue Mini Cooper leaving her 'severely burned' and 'intubated' in a hospital.
Anne Heche's family has been beset with tragedy, beginning with the death of her sister Cynthia Heche in infancy due to a heart condition, patriarch Donald Heche dying from AIDS in 1983, and later that same year, brother Nathan Heche was killed in a car accident in New Jersey at 18.
In 2006, Heche's eldest sister, Susan, died as a result of a brain tumor at 48.
The actress's troubled relationship with her family first became public knowledge following the release of her 2001 memoir Call Me Crazy.
Anne Heche pictured with her mother, Nancy, at the premiere for the movie Six Days, Seven Nights in 1997
The Heche family pictured in 1970, from left to right, Susan Heche, Nancy Heche, Donald Heche, Nathan Heche, Abigail Heche and Anne Heche
A later pic of the Heche family, left to right, Nancy, Abigail, Nathan, Donald and Anne Heche
In the book, Heche disclosed that she was sexually abused by her father, Donald, in her youth. Also alleging that he gave her genital herpes as a result of the abuse.
In response to Heche's autobiography, Nancy Heche said: 'I am trying to find a place for myself in this writing, a place where I as Anne's mother do not feel violated or scandalized.'
Both Heche, and her older sister Susan, revealed in their separate books that Donald Heche lived a bizarre duplicitous life.
By day, he was a closeted homosexual and God-fearing Baptist choir leader; by night, he left Heche's mother and four children at home to cruise gay bars in their hometown of Aurora, Ohio.
Nancy wrote in her book, The Truth Comes Out, that during her marriage to Donald, the pair experimented with poppers in order to liven up their sex life.
She said: 'Don and I used the poppers together. When we first moved to Atlantic City and were living in the house with Don's ''business' partner,' we were given some little bottles of the dizzying stuff 'to enhance our sex life.'
Nancy continued: 'But I'm a very non-gay wife coaxed into snigging the poppers as a novelty for our sex life. It seemed innocent enough. Why would I question him?'
Heche's mother, Nancy, lectured for years on the 'evils' of homosexuality following her husband's death in 1983
Heche's other sister, Abigail. She's an Illinois-based jewelry designer.
