When Anne Heche left her husband Coley Laffoon for her Men in Trees co-star James Tupper in 2006, ending his marriage as well, it seemed like just another crazy chapter in the actress’ colorful life.But in a segment set to air on Extra Wednesday night, Heche, 38, makes her new life with Tupper, 42, sound almost normal! “We’re so much more comfortable now that our feelings are exposed and everybody knows about them,” she says.

She says that being a couple makes working together easier. Heche tells Extra about love scenes with Tupper, “They’re less challenging…Usually when you’re doing a love scene with somebody you’re not in love with, it’s like you kiss and you kiss and then you think, ‘Oh, great.’ And then they yell,’Cut,’ and you just split apart right away and act like you don’t really like the person.”

But for Heche and Tupper, “When they yell, ‘Cut,’ we just lay there and wait for the next take to go!”

Will Heche, who has a five-year old son with ex Laffoon, and Tupper start a family of their own? The actress will only reply, “Gotta leave it open, ya know what I’m saying?”

And, if the past is any indication, when it comes to Heche, anything goes.

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Anne Heche had no plans to fall in love on the set of her TV series Men In Trees – but her heart told her she couldn’t give up the chance of romancing co-star James Tupper. Both stars ended their respective marriages after meeting each other on set, and Heche accepts that many people must think they’re mad to give up families for a behind-the-scenes romance.

However she insists love is driven by fate, and it’s no mistake when two people fall for one another. Heche says, “I think people find each other who are kind of similar, and, through talking and sharing, you find that you want to spend more time with them.”

After romancing lesbian comedienne Ellen DeGeneres and then dumping her for cameraman Coley Laffoon, Heche understands when people think she’s a carefree romantic, but insists she has always followed her heart. She adds, “I gotta go where it leads. People are somewhat confused by me and I understand that, but I am also proud that I’m a woman who represents… making difficult choices that bring you to where you want to be.”

Co-star Tupper, who plays her on/off boyfriend on the TV show, admits he was shocked when he realized he was falling for his co-star. He explains, “I’d heard a lot of things about Anne… and I found this wonderful, hard-working, beautiful woman.”

Anne Heche’s Men in Trees costar James Tupper recently bought a new home in West Vancouver, where he’s living with the actress – a situation he says “feels a little bit like heaven,” he tells his local newspaper.

“We are just exploring our relationship and it has been going very well,” Tupper, 42, says to the Vancouver Sun. “Where is it going? I don’t know. Ask me again in a year.”

As for their current situation together, Tupper says, “Canadians are so respectful, they really leave us alone a lot. We have experienced nothing but generosity and openness.”

Before going back to work on the second season of the ABC show about a big city therapist in a small Alaskan town, Tupper and Heche, 38, spent three-and-a-half months in Los Angeles with Homer, Heche’s 5-year-old son from her former marriage to Hollywood cameraman Coley Laffoon.

“He is unbelievable,” Tupper says of Homer. “We had a cast baseball game on the weekend and he came off and slugged it over the short stop. He has got a preternatural swing.”

It was while shooting the show that Tupper and Heche first became friends who, he says, kept very clear boundaries.

“In that friendship, we kind of discovered we saw the world in a somewhat similar way,” says Tupper, who’s originally from Nova Scotia. “I think we both made decisions that were based on the relationships we were in. ”

Yet the friendship eventually blossomed into something more, and the couple started dating last January.

As for his costar on and off the screen, Tupper says, “I wish people could meet her in person. She has such a sparkle and such a love for people and she works so hard. She is so dedicated to all the good things.”

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A judge ruled ,Tuesday, that Anne Heche may keep some of her furniture and linens in the very bitter divoce between the Men in Trees star and her estranged husband Coley Laffoon.

Laffoon, 33, had accused Heche, 38, of taking a taking a number of items from the Los Angeles house they’ve been using alternately while Heche has been in town.

Heche countered that she needs the items to furnish her place in Canada, where she started filming her ABC show this month. She said that “for months” she’s been asking Laffoon what he wants to keep and “he has not responded.”

So, she took what she had purchased before their marriage. “I intend to use them in my Vancouver residence,” she wrote in court papers. “I do not intend to dispose of any of these items.”

Superior Court Judge Frederick C. Shaller allowed her to keep the items, but also ruled that Laffoon may have “temporary exclusive use and occupancy of the residence” until it’s sold or until a further court ruling.

Boring, boring I know. Anne Heche freaks me out, and her divorce battle is lame. But hey, someone might be interested in the divorce proceedings right?

Egad!

Anne Heche has fired back at estranged husband Coley Laffoon in their custody battle for 5-year-old son Homer.  (If you missed what he said, go here!)  Heche’s latest court papers deny Laffoon’s claim that he was a “stay-at-home dad.” Says Heche: “Coley does stay at home while I am working, but not to parent. He sends Homer to preschool and leaves him with nannies and baby-sitters while he [Coley] plays Ping Pong, backgammon and poker and views pornography online.” She adds that Laffoon bragged to her and her “Men in Trees” cast members “about going to strip clubs all day.” Over to you, Coley.

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Someone read Anne Heche’s autobiography, Call Me Crazy, cover to cover.

Earlier this month, Heche’s estranged hubby, Coley Laffoon, filed court papers in which he expresses doubt as to whether she is “psychologically capable” of caring for their five-year-old son Homer and requests joint legal and primary physical custody of the boy, plus $33,000 a month in child support and no less than $15,000 in attorney fees.

Detailing myriad ways in which he has been the primary caregiver since Homer was born, Laffoon, 33, questions Heche’s ability to parent in the face of her “bizarre and delusional behavior” and asks that a psych evaluation “be commenced immediately.”

In documents filed May 2 in Los Angeles Superior Court and released Thursday, Laffoon cites an incident last September in which he and Homer were staying in Vancouver and Heche, 37, who was on her way back from New York and was supposed to change planes in Los Angeles, called him at about 11:30 p.m. sounding confused and said that she “didn’t know where she was and that she needed help.”

Because he was in Canada, Laffoon called Heche’s L.A. publicist and asked if she could go look for her. The publicist wasn’t able to find her, Laffoon states, but the next day Heche returned to Vancouver and acted as if nothing had happened.

Per the filing, Heche, who stars on the ABC series Men in Trees, makes about $81,000 per episode, so she should be well-equipped to meet his demands, which have been calculated according to the “marital standard of living” became accustomed to.

Heche fired back via a statement released by a spokesperson today, saying that Laffoon is going after her in court because she wouldn’t pay him the original $45,000 a month he had asked for.

BUT WAIT, IT’S NOT OVER! MORE AFTER THE JUMP!!! (more…)