The actor Anne Heche has claimed that the stigma attached to going public with her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s led to her blacklisting from major movie roles.
Earlier this year, Heche referred to the relationship as “a beautiful part of my life and one that I wear with honour.
Heche claims that 20th Century Fox then told her that such a move would lead them to cancel her contract.
The couple met in 1997, and, that April, Heche invited DeGeneres as her date to the premiere of the disaster movie Volcano, in which she co-starred with Tommy Lee Jones and Don Cheadle.