Start Publishing,an independent publisher based in Hoboken, New Jersey, has the book scheduled for January.The book’s publisher, Jarred Weisfeld, says that he signed a deal with Heche in May and that she had turned in a manuscript shortly before she died. She also wroteabout having Harrison Ford as a mentor, along with stories about Alec Baldwin, Ivan Reitman and Oliver Stone, among others. Hechehad herpes at age 8; sexual abuse byfather Donald Heche, a closeted gay man, might have begun when she was still in diapers and continued until she was 12.She and her three siblings were often beaten with a wooden spoon.Heche's father, a choir director in a Baptist church who frequented gay bars, died of AIDS in 1983.

Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7, confidential support via text message to people in crisis when they dial 741741. THR reached out to Scribner to see if the publisher plans to reissue the book, which is described as a “harrowing autobiography” that is “raw with emotion,” per Publishers Weekly. Heche recounted her childhood growing up in Ohio in a conservative Christian family with claims of childhood sexual abuse and trauma inflicted by her father, a Baptist minister. As an actress, she would never again come within sneezing distance of the A-list. Still, she worked steadily, appearing in Ally McBeal, and in 2004 receiving a Prime Time Emmy nomination for TV movie Grace’s Choice. She would also star in the Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg spoof The Other Guys and the comedy Cedar Rapids. Two years ago, she twirled her way through Dancing With The Stars – America’s answer to Strictly Come Dancing. Heche later became estranged from her sister Abigail, who said that her sibling’s memories of childhood abuse were “untrue” [she also disputed that Nathan had taken his own life].In summarizing this one I couldn't help but notice that much like in life she received the same in death. Both of the leads are excellent, with Heche in particular proving to be a welcome presence on the big screen, allowed to inhabit more than just a supporting character.” USA TODAY has been unable to obtain a copy of the book, but excerpts can be found in Google Books— someof them now eerie and heartbreaking to consume.

The fact that she made such a mark on the LBGTQ + community, the fact she helped open the lane wide open for couples, the notion that she allowed so many people insight into her life with joy, grace, and dignity isn't lost here. Heche's first memoir recounts her turbulent upbringing, her rise to fame and her high-profile relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, whom she dated from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, according to reports, Heche drove to the desert and walked some distance to a stranger’s ranch where she asked to take a shower and then settled in the living room to watch a film. Heche turned to acting at a young age to escape from her traumatic childhood. She was honored by the National Board of Review for her performance in Wag the Dog as a presidential adviser, a role intended for a man. “That was Barry Levinson’s idea,” she told Playbill magazine in 2004. “I walked into this room, and Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman are sitting there waiting to read with me. I said, ‘I think there’s been a mistake.’ And Barry said, ‘No, no, no. I want to see how this plays with a woman doing it.’”In a Sept. 6, 2001, story from USA TODAY's archives, Heche talked to reporter Ann Oldenburg about her memoir and why she chose to write it. Might we add that she was 53 at the time of this writing. She died the same month of it to be publicized. There have been many things put out about me that were not the full story," she said at the time. "So I thought it was important and necessary to tell the whole story. In telling the whole story – whether you like it, don't like it, think I'm insane, think I'm sane – you'll see we are on a journey that is an individual process toward healing ourselves, I believe." There needed to be several chapters at the end of the book to explain what had just happened. It makes sense how she went crazy. It even makes sense how she became sane. It doesn't make any sense at all how she would have reconciled that, and that would have been the most fascinating part of her story had she chosen to share it. Instead, we are left with the platitude that she fell in love with a man and love healed her. The same man that she would leave, a few years later, for a costar.