Nancy Heche

Nancy Abigail Baker Heche (; née Prickett, born March 10, 1937) is an American activist, author, and counselor. In 2006, she published a memoir entitled The Truth Comes Out. Heche is the mother of the actress Anne Heche and writer and literary scholar Susan Bergman.

Early life and family Heche is the daughter of Marietta Susan (Tukey) and Richard Carleton Prickett. As a child, she attended a Methodist church and was raised in Indiana.

Career and advocacy Since 1997, Heche has been a Christian pastoral counselor.

Beginning in 2005, Heche has been an activist on behalf of Love Won Out, a group with ties to Focus on the Family. According to Heche, homosexuality is a sin, and people can change their sexual orientation through faith in Jesus Christ. On September 8, 2006, Heche was the "Back of the Book guest" on the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor. She appeared twice on the Christian Broadcasting Network's Engaging your World in December 2006.

In 2006, Heche published a memoir entitled The Truth Comes Out.

Heche adheres to the Bible's "mandate that Christians must love, gays and lesbians included". She has said, "We are supposed to be known by our love. So to categorize it or think it's going to be different for someone who is living homosexually is a misconception. We just show love." In 1983, Donald Heche died of AIDS. Three months following the death of her husband, Heche's 18-year-old son Nathan was killed in a car crash. Heche said her daughter's sexuality was "like a betrayal of an unspoken vow: We will never have anything to do with homosexuals."

Nancy Heche became estranged from Anne Heche after the latter confronted her about her father's alleged sexual abuse. In her 2001 memoir Call Me Crazy, Anne Heche wrote that when she contracted genital herpes as an infant, her mother insisted that it was a diaper rash and refused to take her to the doctor. Heche vehemently denied her daughter's allegations.

Anne Heche died in August 2022 following an automobile accident.

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