Portia De Rossi Was Alerted By Anne Heche To Avoid Ellen Degeneres – ‘Red Flag, Red Flag, Red Flag’

Anne Heche once warned actress Portia De Rossi of dating Ellen DeGeneres.

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Heche recalled the details of the incident during an episode of her podcast that aired last year.

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Heche told DeRossi that going after DeGeneres was a red flag.

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Heche and DeGeneres dated for three and a half years after they met in 1997.

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Heche subsequently married Coleman Laffoon in 2001.

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Heche revealed in the podcast that DeGeneres banned her from her show,

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The "Donnie Brasco" star stated that she broke up with DeGeneres because they had different goals.

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"I broke up with her because her goal was to have a lot of money, and mine was to find love," the actress said on the podcast.

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Heche's former partners paid their respect to the actress following her recent death.

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