Anne Heche once revealed what she warned Portia about dating Ellen

Anne Heche once privately warned Portia de Rossi about dating her ex, Ellen DeGeneres – and the late star even revealed exactly what she said.

Anne Heche recalled telling Portia de Rossi not to pursue her ex-girlfriend, Ellen DeGeneres, during a 2021 episode of her Better Together podcast with Heather Duffy.

In the YouTube video, Heche remembered how she “warned” de Rossi against beginning a relationship with the comedian. Heche and DeGeneres dated for three years before a public break up in 2000, where the actress suffered a mental health breakdown hours after the relationship ended, Fox News reports.

“By the way, I warned her,” Heche told Duffy. “Portia even asked me about Ellen.”

She continued: “Portia came to my wedding [to ex-husband Coleman ‘Coley’ Laffoon in 2001] because I was on Ally McBeal with her. Portia even said, ‘I’m gonna go after Ellen.’”

At the time of Heche and DeGeneres’ relationship, they were known for being a pivotal part of the LGBTQ community as one of Hollywood’s few openly gay couples.

Anne Heche (left) and Ellen at the 1997 Emmys. The couple split in 2000. Picture: Bob Riha, Jr./Getty

“You won’t be the poster child, girl, because guess what, that poster child has already been taken,” Heche said she told the Aussie actress. “And by the way, it wasn’t a great spot. But, yours ain’t gonna be any easier.

“And I’m telling you now, like, red flag, red flag, red flag!” Heche remembered telling de Rossi.

“I have been cancelled since the day I was born,” Heche said as she defended her “truth” in the relationship.

Finding humour in her past, Heche joked: “I realised that Ellen drove a Porsche … and then she married one. All she used to do was drive Porsche’s and she collected them and I just thought it was so stupid because they were so loud.”

Heche told Page Six last year that the failed relationship not only black-listed her from Hollywood, it also “cancelled” her from the entertainment industry for a decade.

“I didn’t do a studio picture for 10 years,” she said of the fallout. “I was fired from a $10 million picture deal and did not see the light of day in a studio picture.”

Portia de Rossi started dating Ellen in the early noughties.

DeGeneres, for her part, celebrated her 14-year wedding anniversary to de Rossi on Tuesday, and wrote in an Instagram post: “It’s good to be loved. It’s profound to be understood.”

Anne Heche’s death was ruled an accident yesterday, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner.

The late actress died of “inhalation and thermal injuries,” and the manner of death was listed as an “accident”.

The report also listed a “sternal fracture due to blunt trauma” under “other significant conditions,” with her death noted on Thursday, August 11.

Only one of five manners of death can be listed on a coroner’s report: homicide, suicide, natural, accident or undetermined.

Heche says she warned de Rossi about dating Ellen. Picture: Getty

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi in 2020. Picture: Getty

The New York Times best-selling author was “peacefully taken off life support” on Sunday, August 14, after being declared brain dead two days earlier. She is survived by her son, Homer, with ex-husband Coley Laffoon, and son Atlas with her former partner, James Tupper.

LAPD dismissed the investigation into the car crash following her death.

Heche found small-screen success on soap operas in the ’80s and portrayed twins on Another World, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards.

She rose to fame in the late ’90s for her starring roles alongside Johnny Depp in Donnie Brasco, with Harrison Ford in Six Days, Seven Nights and in Gus Van Sant’s remake of Psycho.

This story originally appeared on Fox News and is republished here with permission

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