Los Angeles Times. Heche, 53, appeared to be “under the influence” and “acting erratically,” L.A. Fire Department officials told the paper.It took firefighters over an hour to contain the blaze.
The homeowner was in the backyard and escaped injury.Heche and DeGeneres were together from 1997 to 2000 and were a high-profile couple.
They appeared together on Oprah Winfrey’s show and many others. Their breakup was very public, amid reports that Heche was wandering disoriented along a road in central California and went into a stranger’s home.
The couple released a statement calling their parting “amicable.” Heche later said that being in a same-sex romance cost her work in Hollywood, but she was proud to have been “part of a revolution that created social change.”Heche later married a man, camera operator Coley Laffoon, and then was in a relationship with James Tupper.