It just breaks my heart.

i know this has nothing to do with the topic, but its just interesting to see how the housing prices vary depending on your location. We live in a suburb of Milwaukee, and my husband and I are looking at a 4 bedroom, 2 bath house for 139,000. Great neighborhood, right on the lake.
I know when I was a kid and we live in Orange County,(86-95) we paid more for rent for a small apartment then we do here for a large flat.
Maybe he really does need that money live how he was accustomed.
She does seem a bit wacked out, and some of the things she is reportedly doing are a bit questionable, but who knows?

I think her ex is using her past against her in order to get more money in the divorce. Other than when she claimed she was an alien or something back in the day I don’t really see anything “bizarre” or “delusional” in the behavior that is described.

She once had her son ride in the front seat with her. This is neither bizarre or delusional my parents did this with me more than once when I was growing up, it shows perhaps a lapse in judgement but give her a break she’s human.
Many parents, myself included, curse in front of their children on occasion. I know I shouldn’t but sometimes when I am on the phone or in a conversation with another adult sometimes a bad word does slip out.
Are all parents who at times pack lunches their children don’t like bizarre and delusional? Kids can be picky eaters, something can be their favorite food one week and they will refuse to eat the same food the next week. Again,this also happened to me, the school also spoke to me and their suggestion was not to offer a variety of foods but just send macaroni and cheese for lunch everyday because that’s one food my kids will always eat.

As far as letting her son know she has a boyfriend, he probably already guessed(kids pick up on more than we think)and she may have figured that although they agreed not to tell him it was better to be honest with him than to lie.
sometimes when I am away from home with my children and my husband calls the kids say they don’t want to talk on the phone to their dad. They’re just having too much fun playing and don’t want to stop to chat on the phone. Should she make him talk on the phone if he doesn’t want to? It would be more bizarre to me if she forced her son to talk on the phone if he doesn’t want to.
Big deal that she sent her son to the airport without his passport or favorite toy, this is not bizarre or delusional,it’s called being human, most people forget important things once in awhile.

As for the showering thing, since they all had on bathing suits this may have occured on one of those shower things at a beach or a pool and been a perfectly innocent occasion. I am sure if it had been in a bathtub at home those details would have been mentioned in the allegations.

It seem like this man is reaching really hard to make Anne look bad. Unfortunately for her the thing he is reaching for is her pocketbook.

I hope that Homer’s dad gets full custody–period!

Anne has had a really disturbing life and suffereed a lot of abuse, and though I feel bad for her, she is clearly mentally/emotionally unstable. Her husband has been the primary caretaker of Homer and hopefully the court will respect this and award him cutsody. She should not get custody just because she’s the woman –and maybe she needs supervised visits if she can’t get her act together.

That said, her ex got what he deserved when she left him. He was the other man that she was sleeping with while she was living with Ellen, she left Steve Martin for Ellen, so he should have expected this. She’s a serial cheater!

I’ve gone through a messy custody battle myself and I know how people can get mean. I don’t put it past her to care much less for her son than for herself.

On the $$ situation. 60K for a house?? LOL I’m not sure where that is possible but in CA where I am from and currently live it’s luck to find a decent home in a decent area for under 700K AT LEAST. I mean in Oakland,CA and the ghetto parts you are looking at 350-400K easy. True. Look it up.

33K a month doesn’t sound too far off. I really hope that he gets sole custody.

I don’t see how anyone could defend her! What she has done is wrong!
Showering with her new bf and the son, even in bathing suits is not ok in anway. He is only five years old, and not old enough to understand that mommy and daddy are not together, and that mommy has a new bf ect. And now she’s probably confused him more with this sort of behavoiur. And the airport thing is horrible as well. Small children need their favourite toys, their passports(clearly) and other things like that.
I’m sorry, but really, I’m on the dad’s side in this case. But I do hope she gets help.

I think we should not blame Anne Heche..We don’t know anything about this situation!
I can understand it’s hard for this little boy to see his parents getting divorce but please… And does it make her a bad mom because her son’s lunch bag was not perfect?? Can we blame her for that??
And I don’t understand why a child therapist should tell them how to behave with their kid!! We all make mistakes… Ok she left her husband for another man, so what?? Is she the first one to do so?

Autumn,

Considering that they live in Los Angeles (and at times in New York), $800,000 BARELY gets you a decent place to live…and I’m sure Coley and her son are used to much nicer homes than that would buy you.

Just because someone can buy a house for $60,000 in some parts of the country does not mean that is anywhere near true for other parts.

Considering how much money she makes…this doesn’t sound too unbelievable to me!!

Come on guys.. I think that although some of her behavior in the past.. she wouldn’t be mother of the year, but I don’t think that these accusations are as bad as they are making it seem. So what, she didn’t5 pack a nutrional lunch… my daughter’s school sends a letter once a week about the same situation.. doesn’t make her a bad parent that she packed a lunch her kid did not like. So what if she didn’t answer the phone when he called, maybe she wanted to spend time with her son without having the father call every five minutes. I think that we are a little quick to judge without knowing the whole story.

That is absolutely disgusting if it’s true. Those are all signs of neglectful parenting, and she does not deserve custody of him at all if it’s true. I wonder if her lawyer remembers that while Coley was refusing to “contribute financially” to his son (aka taking care of him), Anne was cheating on him with James. She obviously has mental problems, and she needs serious psychiatric help before Homer is allowed to live with her again (obviously she already ignored the child therapist’s advice). I can’t believe Ellen Degeneres ever went out with her.