Actress Anne Heche draws from her abusive past for her roles

In 'The Brave', Anne Heche plays Patricia Campbell, the deputy director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency. Photo: HBO Asia

While Anne Heche has put her past in the past, the 48-year-old doesn’t deny that it informs who she is today as an actress. In her 2001 memoir, Call Me Crazy, Heche talked about being sexually abused by her father, and her mother not believing the allegation.

This triggered a mental breakdown when Heche was 31. In the book, she surmised, that she had been “insane” for the first 31 years of her life.