When she went public with her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, Anne Heche became one of the few high-profile Hollywood actors who were out at the time. In an excerpt of the book published by USA Today, Heche claimed that a very famous film director told her to stay silent about her sexuality and her love life, using another star as an example. "I took Ellen," Heche told the podcast Irish Goodbye in 2018 (via People). Heche wrote in her book that her Six Days, Seven Nights co-star Ford supported her and assured her that they would keep filming the movie. Of being out publicly with DeGeneres, Heche explained, "Nothing in my life I am prouder to have participated in—other than childbirth, of course!"
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