Ellen, Anne Unload On Hollywood

Actresses Anne Heche and Ellen DeGeneres say they were shut out of Hollywood after their highly-publicized "coming out."

"Everything that I ever feared happened to me. I lost my show. I've been attacked like hell. I went from making a lot of money on a sitcom to making no money," former Ellen TV star DeGeneres said in an interview published Sunday in Los Angeles Times Magazine.

Heche added, "I was told I would never work again."

In unloading on Hollywood, the couple said they have been treated unfairly and disrespectfully by major studios.

DeGeneres revealed her homosexuality about the same time as her Ellen character in April 1997. The show's rating kept dropping until it was canceled by ABC-TV in 1998.

"When I walked out of the studio after five years of working so hard, knowing I had been treated so disrespectfully for no other reason than I was gay, I just went into this deep, deep depression," DeGeneres said, adding, "and it's not like any other networks have called."

Heche said, "I can't say the offers are pouring in."

"Fox won't hire me because they still have this bitterness about the timing of my falling in love with Ellen and the opening of Volcano. I have my own opinions about why that movie didn't do well, as anybody with a half a brain would, but they want to blame it on somebody," she said.

However, Heche stars in the remake of Psycho, which opens Dec. 4, and DeGeneres will be seen in three upcoming movies, including Goodbye Lover in December and edTV, a new Ron Howard comedy, next spring.