Co-host of Anne Heche's podcast laments loss of "beautiful friend”

Beginning in 2020, Heche and Heath Duffy co-hosted the podcast "Better Together.”

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Heche’s podcast partner Heather Duffy wrote a heartfelt tribute to the actress, less than a week after her passing

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Duffy referred Heche as a "beautiful friend with the kindest soul."

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The "Six Days, Seven Nights" actress was declared brain-dead on Friday and later removed from life support

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after she suffered a "severe" anoxic brain injury,

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when she crashed her car into a Los Angeles home earlier this month.

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Duffy said she wished the media had spoken to Heche before her death about

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"how harshly they judged her in those moments when she took a stand for equality."

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