Inside Anne Heck and Ellen DeGeneres’ “Revolutionary” Four Year Relationship

American actress Anne Heshe is in critical condition after a near-fatal car accident Los Angeles Times reports.

The 53-year-old, best known for her role in the series Another World, was in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles around 11 a.m. on Friday, August 5 when her car caught fire.

LAPD media officer Jeff Lee said the driver ran the car off the road and crashed into a house that caught fire, and the car caught fire. CNN.

Anne was rushed to a local hospital with severe burns, and it reportedly took firefighters “more than an hour to reach, confine and completely extinguish the stubborn flames.” LAFD He said.

Now, many only found out that the actress was in a relationship with TV star Ellen DeGeneres. Read on to find out more about their romance and split…

Ann and Elaine have been dating for four years

Anne Heshe and Ellen DeGeneres dated for nearly four years from 1997 to 2000.

They met at the Vanity Fair Oscars in 1997 and Ann once Tell Oprah: “I saw Eileen across a crowded room, I know absolutely nothing, except that I was just drawn to her.”

“Our souls are connected, and there comes a time when souls come together and are only meant to be… my soul is meant to be with my soul and that’s all that matters,” she also said on the Irish Goodbye podcast.

At the time, same-sex relationships were less common than they are now, so the actress made headlines when she invited Ellen as her date at the 1997 premiere of her movie Volcano.

In an interview with Dancing with the starsrevealed that she was told she would lose her contract with Fox if she took Eileen as her date, but decided to do it anyway.

However, she “was directed by security even before the movie was over” and said, “I wasn’t allowed to go to the after-party for fear of getting a picture of me with a woman. It was incredible.”

“Our time was a beautiful part of my life and I wear it with honor. I was part of a revolution that brought about social change, and I couldn’t have done it without falling in love with it,” said the 53-year-old.

In a recent interview with Sixth pageShe added, “This wasn’t a long-term love affair. This was a moment in my life when I got the glory of being able to stand up for what I believe in since I was a kid.”

They split in 2000

The pair became one of the biggest LGBTQ+ couples in the ’90s, but unfortunately, things didn’t last and the relationship ended abruptly in 2000.

They never revealed exactly why they broke up, but Ann hinted in an interview today Dancing with the stars In 2020, the relationship negatively affected her career.

“I was in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres for three and a half years, and the stigma attached to that relationship was so bad that I got kicked out of this multi-million dollar photo deal,” she said.

The actress went on to reveal that she hasn’t “worked in a studio photo for 10 years” due to the romance.

Release a statement Announcing the split, they said, “It’s an amicable parting and we really appreciate the three and a half years we spent together.”

However, a year later, Eileen told Los Angeles Times That breakup was a surprise, saying, “I walked out the door and haven’t spoken to her since, I don’t have the answers.”

“I would like to have it myself. I would like to ask all the questions everyone wants to ask…. I’m left wondering what happened,” the TV host continued.

Eileen didn’t want her to “wear a sexy dress”

In 2021, Anne, who is on TikTok, created a video She labeled some of her “distinguished red carpet looks” and fans were surprised to hear what she had to say about Elaine.

It went through six of her past outfits and ranked them out of 10, but the dress she wore to the 1998 Golden Globes, which she attended with Elaine, caught everyone’s attention.

Anne wore a long navy velvet jacket that was very different from some of the previous, more revealing outfits she’s been wearing, and there’s a reason for that.

“Why do I look like a hippie?” She said. “That’s because Eileen didn’t want me to dress sexy.” The star then gave the look a rating of 0/10.

Now, Ellen is happily married to Portia de Rossi and Anne Heche Acquaintance Skincare expert Peter Thomas Roth.