Anne Heche Was Told To Be More Like Jodie Foster With Her Sexuality'; Reveals Why She Fell in Love With Ellen DeGeneres in 'Call Me Anne' Excerpt

Anne Heche is shining a light on her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in her new, unfinished memoir, “Call Me Anne”.

The book will be released next week on January 24, which comes six months after her tragic death from injuries sustained from a car crash.

In the excerpt, which was published by People, Anne opened up about her former relationship with Ellen, and why she chose to be with her.

Check out what she wrote inside…

Anne recalled that she was called into a meeting with Ivan Reitman and co-star Harrison Ford ahead of filming Six Days Seven Nights, just as headlines about her and Ellen expanding their family were floating around the media.

“In 1997, I began a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres and was on the set of my first starring role in a big-budget movie, Six Days, Seven Nights. I was called into my costar Harrison Ford’s trailer one lunch break within the first week of shooting,” she wrote. “I was met with the sight of director Ivan Reitman and Harrison sitting on one of two white pleather sofas. I hesitantly sat on the opposite white pleather sofa.”

Anne went on, saying that both had noticed the headlines about her becoming pregnant.

“They showed me this as proof of why this openness about my relationship was becoming a pain in the ass for them. Why, Ivan asked me, can’t I just be like Jodie Foster? (I didn’t know what that meant. ‘Everybody knows it,’ he explained, ‘it’ being her sexuality. ‘She just doesn’t talk about it.’),” the passage read.

“I found it odd that anyone thought I could get pregnant so quickly with a woman, but even odder, that they cared so much about the perception that I was going to ruin a movie that hadn’t even been shot?”

Anne then explained just why she chose to be with Ellen and fall in love with the former talk show host.

“…No one bothered to ask me about any of it,” she lamented. “No matter how many articles were written about me, no one asked me why I had done what I did. What was the force that would have made a human being risk everything they’d been promised, their entire career? Why? Why would I have done that?”

Anne says it was “because I had lived in a family that was built upon lies. My father hid his sexuality his entire life. When I met Ellen and she was open and honest about her sexuality, it was the most attractive and alluring quality in a person that I had ever seen.”

“I was mesmerized by her honesty, and that is why she was the first and only woman that I ever fell in love with,” she wrote. “I was in love with a person who had chosen to leverage her very public persona in support of the cause she was standing up for, which was LGBTQ+ rights for everybody on the planet who wanted them. Love became my destiny.”

Following her death, Ellen shared a tribute to Anne.

Anne‘s eldest son, Homer, announced the plans for her memoir release earlier this month.