Anne Heche, formerly one-half of Hollywood's most prominent lesbian couple, married cameraman Coleman Laffoon in Los Angeles on September 1.
Newlyweds Anne Heche and Coleman Laffoon
Heche met her 27-year-old husband while making a documentary about DeGeneres's tour of America as a stand-up comedienne after the pair had split up, her publicist said.
Although Laffoon makes a lot less than Heche, the New York Post reported that the couple will not be signing a pre-nup as the groom is said to be from a wealthy family. His father, Polk Laffoon who has given the couple his blessings is the vice president of corporate relations for listed publishing and online media giant Knight Ridder, according to the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
Friends say she spent last month making her marriage arrangements has renounced her lesbian period and her three years with DeGeneres.
"Anne's days as a lesbian have been purged from her memory," a friend of Heche's told a British news service. "She has spent most of August running around with copies of bridal magazines, seating plans and photos of wedding cakes. Anne's wedding is a celebration of her re-entry into the world of heterosexuality."
In a television interview with Barbara Walters on 20/20, she said she was insane throughout her three-year relationship with DeGeneres, which ended in August last year. She also added that she felt "insane" almost all her life, ever since she was sexually abused by her father, a Baptist choirmaster and secret bisexual who died of Aids when she was 12.
They couple will honeymoon after Heche completes a ten-city book tour for her autobiography, Call Me Crazy, which comes out later this week.
Meanwhile, DeGeneres is set to host this year's Emmy Awards and will return to series television this fall with The Ellen Show, a new CBS sitcom where she plays a lesbian Internet executive who flees the big city and returns to her Midwestern hometown.