Anne Heche has had a tumultuous life and career so far. She’s been the subject of controversy over her bisexuality, her relationships, and her brief series of psychological issues. Through it all, she has continued to work and raise her two sons, Atlas and Homer, as a single mother. And now she’s in the news again, but for something that might garner her some positive attention.
Heche’s mother Dr. Nancy Heche is a psychotherapist who is using her position to claim to be able to “overcome” homosexuality. After her husband confessed his homosexuality before dying of AIDS in 1983, she began her anti-gay propaganda by joining the Focus On the Family organization. It is for this stance that Anne is keeping her two sons away from their grandmother.
At some point in all of our lives, we turn away from our parents. Sometimes we do so out of spite, sometimes out of fear, sometimes out of disgust. Sometimes it’s short-lived, sometimes it’s permanent. The best part of us is sometimes able to allow a reconciliation; many times this is impossible. It’s not known whether Anne and Nancy are on speaking terms or not, or just how strongly this affects Anne’s life in any way. When one’s own mother professes intolerance for one’s lifestyle, on whose shoulders does it rest to step up and make the first move toward apology? I just hope that this doesn’t turn uglier than it already is; I can easily see Nancy trying a legal argument to have Anne’s kids taken away from her for her earlier breakdown. In all, this story is just sad, and as always, it’s the children who suffer.
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