Call Me Crazy

by Anne Heche

Book Overview

THE NATIONAL ANDNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERAs an actress, she lives in the world of illusion made to seem real. As a survivor of abuse, she's learned how to live in her own skin -- and face the reality... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074321689X
• ISBN13: 9780743216890
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Terrific read

Anne Heche needed this book to exorcise the deamons of how she was raised and to get the crazy out. She detailed her life in great fashion, while being very descriptive and direct. It makes your heart really go out to her.

A book I highly recommend...

This book was a real page turner for me. To read the openness that Anne Heche used in the telling of this book. She put herself out there to be judged (as you can see by these reviews), but yet she still chose to tell her story. She uses the writing as a way to excorcise her demons and to let people know how she got to where she is. Coming from religious upbringing and abuse is like pulling you in two different directions. I believe she adapted the second personality to deal with the abuse and denial that she was facing at home. It's a well documented fact that people are all the time creating different people in their minds to help them make it out alive. I give her kudos for making it out in one piece. She has had to make peace with her past and I believe this book helped her. I very highly recommend it. It is very insightful into how Christianity can be taken and manipulated to suit the individual whims of many.

She is very far from crazy.

I could not stop listening to this CD!!! I could not believe how much Anne has been through and I applaud her honesty and bravery...she left no stone unturned and it takes alot of courage to tell a personal story like this. Especially about being molested. I hope that her speaking out about this will help others some forward who have been abused.

Anne, really her, Anne truly amazing

In life we find very few people who will swing open their lives. Anne has not only opened her mind but her heart also. She start with the real but yet so unreal childhood that we all know and fear exist. hearing her voice thorough each stage of her life pushes you to the edged with her. Anne's Family may not stand behind her now but as you listen to Anne's heart pour out the hurt you know they never did. As you go with her from point to person in her life she puts you in places alot of people will never be able to go and it all flows from the heart, deep from within her soul. Anne tells about Ellen with such intense emotion and never hides anything. I for one admire her and was so moved by her it made me take a look in my heart, mind and soul. Anne thank you so much for this real gift. Remember we all could be call crazy at certain points in our life but you have reminded us just how lucky we are it's not for years.Teddie Shively

An astonishing tale of abuse and ultimate survival.

Anne Heche is the finest actress of her generation; a multi-talented chameleon whose performances have ranged from outrageous comedy (Six Days Seven Nights) to heartbreaking tragedy (Return To Paradise). But like so many other great actresses before her, that versatility did not come without a great deal of personal pain and abuse. After 31 years of near 'insanity,' Heche has finally cleared her soul of the childhood traumas that tortured her. From the closeted gay father who raped and beat her repeatedly, to the mother who let it happen and has yet to apologize or face the reality of her psychic damage, Heche's nightmares manifested themselves in a break with reality -- the creation of a second, Jesus-like personality she called Celestia. Fundamentalist Christians are warned to keep away, but the open-minded reader will welcome the revelations offered. A child of abuse who has survived to tell her tale, Heche offers a lucid, well-written autobiography that I read in a single evening. For the empathetic, this is a very tough read -- I fought back tears more than once -- but rest assured the story has a happy ending. I only hope that her new husband and expectant child will continue to enrich her life and give her the freedom and happiness she deserves. Go Annie!