Tupper as being "eternally engaged." She and Tupper had a son named Atlas Heche Tupper in March 2009. Tupper and Heche separated in January 2018. Heche and former Hung co-star Thomas Jane announced that they were in a relationship in 2019; they were together into 2020, but had separated by the time of her death. Mental health issues In her memoir Call Me Crazy, Heche discusses her struggles with mental health issues and the long-term effect of childhood abuse. She wrote that she had blocked out the memory of much of her childhood and had first gone into therapy during the time that she starred on Another World, undergoing various types of therapy through the mid-1990s. She soon began Reichian body psychotherapy, and wrote that the release of body memories through this therapy helped her recover memories of her alleged sexual abuse by her father and confront the emotional aftermath of childhood trauma. This process was later continued through guided LSD therapy, which she claimed had led to a full recovery of childhood memories. She underwent another crisis that began about the time she had finished filming Donnie Brasco, in which she said that she began hearing God speaking directly to her. In this state, she said that she was told that she had an inner being called "Celestia" who was an incarnation of God and the Second Coming of Jesus. She believed that it was her mission to enlighten humanity and that she had achieved fame in order to fulfill this role. She had an initial experience of hearing and being directed by God that lasted for 12 days, and her spiritual experiences and alter ego as Celestia continued for another four years. During this time, she claims to have had experiences with glossolalia, automatic writing and drawing, clairvoyance, the ability to psychically heal others, and having stigmata appear on her feet. On August 19, 2000, immediately following her separation from Ellen DeGeneres, Heche drove on Interstate 5 from Los Angeles to the San Joaquin Valley. Exiting where she said later said she "had been told" to go, she ended up in Cantua Creek, a rural area in western Fresno County, California. She left her vehicle at the side of a rural road and, wearing only a bra and shorts, walked in extremely hot weather without water, before feeling dehydrated and knocking on the door of a ranch house.