The American actress Anne Heche died a week after she was critically injured in a car crash.
On August 5, 2022, Heche was in a car that was traveling at a high speed when it ran off the road and collided with a residence that became engulfed in flames in Los Angeles, According to reports.
The tenant of the house sustained minor injuries but Heche was severely burned.
Law enforcement officials said that Heche was “deemed to be under the influence and acting erratically” at the time of the crashes. The Los Angeles Police Department said that a preliminary blood analysis confirmed the presence of narcotics in Heche’s system, although more comprehensive toxicology tests that could take weeks are required to identify specific drugs.
Heche suffered a severe anoxic brain injury, which deprives the brain of oxygen, as a result the crash, according to the family’s representative on August 11.
“It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable,” the family said.
Anne Heche died on August 12, 2022, at age 53 in Los Angeles, California.
Anne Celeste Heche was an American actress, director, and screenwriter.
She was born May 25, 1969 in
Aurora, Ohio, United States, to Nancy Heche Prickett and Donald Joseph Heche.
Anne Heche rose to fame on the soap opera “Another World,” where she played the dual role of twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love from 1987 to 1991. She earned a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance on the show.
She subsequently featured in the crime drama film Donnie Brasco (1997), the disaster film Volcano (1997), the slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the action comedy film Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), and the drama-thriller film Return to Paradise (1998).
In 2001, Heche married cameraman Coleman Laffoon, with whom she had a son. The marriage ended in divorce and in 2009, Heche had a son with James Tupper.