I walked into this room, and Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman are sitting there waiting to read with me. We dutifully did everything we were told and didn't question when Dad was out of town on business for weeks at a time, because we didn't want to get beaten with a spoon. But to be honest, I'm not much of a Hollywood movie fan, so while her steady success was impressive and well-deserved, those weren't the kind of movies I wanted to see her act in. Fundamentalist Christians are warned to keep away, but the open-minded reader will welcome the revelations offered. A perfect example of this is a conversation Heche had with her mother about heaven on pages 108-110 of the paperback edition, although that same style of dialogue appears throughout the book.

Anne Heche, the Hollywood actress who has died after a car crash earlier this week, lived a life framed by triumph and tragedy. The actress's first book, released in September 2001,discussesHeche's lifelong struggles with mental health and a childhood of abuse. 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,” the actress said. Anne was not only a genius, but one of the most astoundingly focused and prepared actors I’ve ever worked with. It is understood her heartbeat was being maintained in case appropriate organ donation could take place.It's such a fascinating look into the life of an abused child looking back from an adult perspective. I believe she adapted the second personality to deal with the abuse and denial that she was facing at home. I guess it's good that she was able to survive everything, but I guess it seems that a crazy person who's still crazy writing a book about being crazy serves no purpose. One year later, Heche admitted to Larry King that she had taken a "hit of ecstasy" when she got out of her car, adding: "I was so far gone by that point, you know, by the time I took the pill, I was waiting for my spaceship. I never want to be the kind of person that reads someone else's memoir and judges them based upon it.

She lives a public life as an actress, in a very publicized relationship while also living a secret life as Celestia until, as her relationship is winding down, she has this unbelievable meltdown. In an excerptfromthe book, shared exclusively with the Associated Press, Heche talks about dating DeGeneres. For the empathetic, this is a very tough read -- I fought back tears more than once -- but rest assured the story has a happy ending. The two of them share a personality and ability to face the world in a way that I feel like I have and would want portrayed," she said.Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche broke up in 2000, and Heche later said she was blacklisted from the industry after their fallout. As I was listening to this book narrated by Heather, her best friend, it felt like this book was intended as a “love letter” from the late Heche, with a broad message of acceptance, and be kind to yourself and others, love yourself and others. It was interesting enough that I found myself not wanting to put it down but thought she could have explained things more. It is very insightful into how Christianity can be taken and manipulated to suit the individual whims of many. On Friday afternoon representatives for Heche, 53, confirmed she was “brain dead”, which under California law is the definition of death.

The book deals mostly with her relationship with her father who she claims molested her and who ended up dying of AIDS. Overall, I would give this four stars and it the only reason it isn't five is because I wish it was a little longer. Heche's book arrived around the same time she married cameraman Coleman Laffoon, who she met while working on a documentary about her ex DeGeneres.

He would purse his lips like a prissy old woman with no sugar in her tea and stomp away with a condescending "Good Christian women respect their husbands! Heche says that she was attracted to DeGeneres's strong self-image, so different from her own shattered psyche. After 31 years of near 'insanity,' Heche has finally cleared her soul of the childhood traumas that tortured her. But like so many other great actresses before her, that versatility did not come without a great deal of personal pain and abuse.