Published 15:49 IST, October 7th 2020
Ellen DeGeneres was the reason behind Anne Heche being MIA from movie business, Read here
Anne Heche finally revealed the reason behind why she was MIA from the movie business for almost a decade and how this is related to Ellen DeGeneres. Read on
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t many kw, but 90s famous actor Anne Heche was in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. On recent episode of Dancing With Stars, actor opened up about said relationship. She also revealed how ackwledging her relationship with popular host in public, cost her a multi-million dollar movie deal. Here's what this is about.
Anne Heche's relationship with Ellen DeGeneres cost her a multi-million dollar movie
While participating in America's popular dance reality show, Dancing With Stars, Anne Heche revealed that her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in 90s affected her career negatively. Talking to her dancing partner, Keo Motsepe on Monday, she said that she met Ellen during a Vanity Fair party in 1997. However, when she decided to take Ellen as her plus one to red carpet premiere of her movie, Volca, executives warned her she would lose her contract with Fox Studios.
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Anne Heche revealed that Ellen DeGeneres held her hands and asked her to do what she was being asked by executives. However, Heche stood her ground and took Ellen with her to premiere. But she was asked to leave even before movie ended and was forbidden from going to her own after-party. This was all because makers were worried paparazzi would get a picture of ir lead actor with a woman.
However, that was t all for Anne Heche. She indeed lost her multi-million dollar movie deal with Fox and her relationship with Ellen was t accepted by society. To top it off, she was also absent from studio picture scene for almost a decade until she slowly rebuilt her career again in movies, television and atre.
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Meanwhile, Ellen DeGeneres came out in open about her sexuality in 1997, very same year that Anne Heche started dating her. two were in a relationship for three and a half years before calling it quits. stigma of relationship, however, had a lasting effect on Anne's career and it seems Ellen had warned her of consequences. But w, as Heche revealed in an interview with Mr Warburton Magazine, she seems happy with her decision to have stood up for LGBTQ rights so early on.
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15:49 IST, October 7th 2020