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Call me Celestia September 7, 2001 She could heal people and see the future. She spoke with the dead and with God, in a language only she and God understood. (Although we got a little taste of it, thanks to Barbara Walters' prying.) By the time she was 25, Anne Heche says her personality had begun to fragment, shattering into moments of madness. (After seven years of therapy.) She had an alternate personality named "Celestia" who lived "in the Fourth Dimension." She was waiting for a spaceship from her home planet to bring her home. She had "the best sex of her life" with Ellen Degeneres, on the night they met, her first lesbian experience. She maintains she was molested continuously from infancy to age 12 at the hands of her closeted gay father, who died of AIDS in 1983. She was "insane" for 31 years. Then, suddenly, after wandering into a stranger's home in Fresno while high on Ecstasy last year, she was magically healed of all her mental and emotional problems. And viola, she marries the cameraman who filmed the documentary she made on then-lover Degeneres. Plus, now she's pregnant! Oh my sweet lord. Translation: Her relationship with Degeneres was totally opportunistic and a sham. When it didn't go the way she hoped, she was depressed and wandered off, high on Ecstasy. In order to explain her off-the-wall behavior and bring the spotlight back to her, we get the Celestia Defense. Heche, is now promoting her new book, Call Me Crazy (Simon & Schuster). As far as her abuse claims, her statement and family's reaction also make her "abuse" claims dubious at best. I'd love to know the statistics on how many closeted gay men sexually abuse their daughters. Anyway, he's been dead for years and can't speak for himself. When Barbara Walters questions the veracity of her claims here is her statement. " I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder.... I didn't chisel anything in stone....Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't." Her Family's Reaction Responding to her daughter's accusations, Nancy Heche posted the following on a Web site called Previewport.com: "I am trying to find a place for myself in this writing, a place where I as Anne's mother do not feel violated or scandalized. I find no place among the lies and blasphemies in the pages of this book." Heche's sister, Abigail, wrote: "It is my opinion that my sister Anne truly believes, at this moment, what she has asserted about our father's past behavior; however, at the same time, I would like to point out that Anne, in the past, has expressed doubts herself about the accuracy of such memories. Based on my experience and her own expressed doubts, I believe that her memories regarding our father are untrue. And I can state emphatically, regardless of Anne's beliefs, that the assertion that our mother knew about such behavior is absolutely false. "I'm not crazy," Heche tells 20/20 in an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters. "But it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me." What is crazy is that the American public tunes into this nonsense and many take it at face value. The networks are just as sad, but after all they are in it for profit and are only giving the audience what they want. Our whole culture of feminist victim hood is disgusting. As Gore Vidal notes, commenting on the Orwellian nature of modern PC society , "... A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they?" It's the sort of thing that makes me think we should just nuke the whole society and start again. Anyone want to scope out bunkers with me or find a spaceship, to take me to another planet ?
Jeff Borgwardt
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