Anne Heche's Son Atlas Poses on Red Carpet With Dad James Tupper Nearly 1 Year After Her Death
etonline.comAnne Heche's 14-year-old son, Atlas Tupper, made a rare public appearance over the weekend.Joined by his father, James Tupper, the pair stepped out to attend the Race To Erase MS 30th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles Friday and were all smiles as they posed for photos.During the gala, James revealed how he and Atlaswere managing, nearly one year after Heche's tragic death in August.«We're taking care of each other and taking it one day at a time,» James told . «We've got a lot of great support and family around us, and it doesn't help.»He added of the late actress, «We still miss her, we miss her every day, love her.»James also addressed the challenges that lay ahead for Atlas in the wake of losing his mother.«It's very difficult whenever you lose a parent like that.
Your whole world switches inside out, and I think kids experience trauma in a way that adults don't,» James explained. «Adults have a context to put it in, but kids do not.
You want to bury it, you want to forget about it and move past it. I happened to have lost my mom, too, when I was very, very young.
So I kind of understand what he's going through.»The outing comes less than a month after Heche was laid to rest on Mother's Day in the Cathedral Mausoleum at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, nine months after her death.Heche crashed her car into a home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles on Aug.
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