Actress Anne Heche, husband separate

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Hollywood actress Anne Heche and her cameraman husband Coley Laffoon have separated after five years of marriage, her representative said.

Heche, 37, and Laffoon, 33, were married in September 2001 and have a 4-year-old son, Homer, People magazine said.

The star of ABC TV's "Men in Trees" was linked with comic Ellen DeGeneres for several years before the couple split in 2000. In 2001, she published an autobiography, "Call Me Crazy," in which she discussed her struggles with mental illness.