Anne Heche

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.