The actress had been in a coma since she crashed her car into a house in Los Angeles.
The American actress Anne Heche died at the age of 53, a week after suffering a traffic accident while driving at high speed through the streets of Los Angeles, United States. Her death was announced by a friend in an Instagram post and, later, it was confirmed by her family, who had already announced that she had been in a coma for several days and with zero chances of survival.
The actress had been in a coma since last week, when the car she was driving crashed into a house in Los Angeles, USA, and her condition was critical. "There is no hope that she will survive," her relatives had stated in a statement released hours before her death.
“Unfortunately, Anne suffered severe anoxic encephalopathy and remains in a critically ill coma. She is not expected to survive", the family had also expressed before the imminent outcome, which said that the actress "always" expressed her intention to "donate her organs" for which "she is kept on a life support system to determine if any of them is viable" to be donated.
After these statements, the actress's family thanked the public "for her kind wishes and her prayers for Anne's recovery" and also the medical staff and nurses who took care of her during her hospitalization.
"Anne had a big heart and moved everyone she met with her generous spirit," said her relatives. While her representative remarked that the actress "will be remembered for her courageous honesty and will be missed by her light."
How was the accident of Anne Heche
On Friday, August 5, Anne crashed her Mini Cooper into a home on Walgrove Avenue in West Los Angeles. After the impact, the car caught fire and the actress suffered burns.
According to official reports, everything happened when —for reasons that are still being investigated— the actress lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a two-story house in the Mar Vista neighborhood.
As a result of the accident, the Mini Cooper suffered a "massive fire" that took more than an hour to be extinguished by the 59 firefighters who worked on the scene and rescued the actress, who was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was admitted. in serious condition.
While the house against which the car collided suffered structural damage, its inhabitants did not suffer injuries.
Investigation of the facts
The Los Angeles Police revealed that it is investigating whether the actress had an accident due to driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. According to the spokesman for that force, Jeff Lee, traces of narcotics were found in the blood sample taken from Heche.
In any case, it was clarified that there are still other toxicology tests to identify the drugs found and differentiate them from any type of medication that they have supplied for her treatment in the hospital.
What Ellen Degeneres, her ex-partner, said
The presenter and comedian Ellen Degeneres, who was a partner of Anne Heche between 1997 and 2000, spoke about the state of health of the actress, after her accident.
When asked by a photographer in Santa Barbara, Ella Degeneres said that she had no contact with Heche and that she had not yet spoken to her family to find out about her condition, but that she hoped that she had a speedy recovery.
“We are not in contact with each other, so I would not know (what to say). I don't want anyone to be hurt," she briefly expressed, according to the Daily Mail.
The romance led by the stars at the end of the nineties captured the attention of the international press since they were one of the first couples of women in Hollywood to break the silence and speak openly about their S- choice.
“Our time together was a beautiful part of my life. I would not have achieved anything that I did if I had not fallen in love with her, ”Heche said in an episode of Dancing with the Stars, in 2020.
