Anne Heche

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.