Anne Heche doesn’t often speak about her romance with Ellen Degeneres that dominated the headlines in the late ’90s and early ’00s, but in a recent interview with Page Six, the 52-year-old is opening up about the partnership that she says got her “blacklisted” from Hollywood.Heche describes the relationship, which lasted from 1997 to 2000, as “a moment in my life when I was given the glory of being able to stand up for what I believe in.”Unfortunately, it came with a cost.
Because being in a same-sex relationship in Hollywood at that time ended up sidelining her career, which had been on the up-and-up before she brought Degeneres as her date to the 1997 premiere of Volcano.“I didn’t do a studio picture for 10 years,” she says.