Anne Heche’s family and friends were hoping for a miracle after the actress’s terrible car accident last Friday (8/5). She didn’t, and now her closest relatives are making the difficult decision to turn off her life support. She was pronounced brain dead.
The actress undergoes artificial respiration until it is determined whether organs not damaged by the accident and subsequent fire can be donated.
“We want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers for Anne’s recovery, and thank the dedicated staff and wonderful nurses who cared for Anne at West Hills Hospital’s Grossman Burn Center,” a representative said in a statement. of the family of Heche.
“Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne Heche suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma, in critical condition. She is not expected to survive.”
“It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept alive to determine if any of them are viable.”
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. More than her extraordinary talent, she saw kindness and joy spreading as her life’s work, particularly moving the needle towards acceptance. of those you love. She will be remembered for her courage and honesty and we will miss her very much for her light. “
Heche was hospitalized after the car she was driving crashed into a house and caught fire in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles. About 60 firefighters fought the fire caused by the clash. The actress suffered severe burns and fell into a coma, never recovering.
LAPD was granted a warrant to carry out the blood draw after evidence suggested that Heche may have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the accident and traces of cocaine and fentanyl were found in the blood. ‘actress.
According to the TMZ website, the suspicion arose after witnesses reported that the actress performed erratic and reckless maneuvers on the street. A video of her also captured her as she was almost running on a pedestrian. Also, before her worst accident, she crashed into a car parked in the garage of an apartment complex. When she was rescued by the residents, she backed up and accelerated to escape the scene, then she crashed the vehicle head-on into a house, in a collision that proved fatal.
She recently wrapped filming the Lifetime pay-TV film “Girl In Room 13,” which explores the dark underbelly of the human trafficking industry. Amy Winter, executive vice president and chief of programming for Lifetime Networks, said the film will screen in September as planned. “This project is important to Anne, as well as to each of us,” said Winter.
The 53-year-old actress has had a long career in films and television series, which began in the 1980s with the soap opera “Outro Mundo”. She starred in such films as “Donnie Brasco” (1997), “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997), the remake of “Psycho” (1998) and “Six Days, Seven Nights” (1998), in which she was Harrison Ford’s love interest. But from there, her film career was influenced, in a biased way, when she took over her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres.
Years later, she declared herself bisexual, when she became involved with a camera assistant and, later, with James Tupper, her love interest in the “Men in Trees” series, with whom she had a child. The 2006 series, by the way, was her biggest hit and anticipated a successfully replicated storyline model to date, see “Virgin River” on Netflix.
On TV, he also did “Hung”, “Dig”, “Quantico”, “Aftermath”, “The Brave” and “Chicago PD” among many other attractions.
He leaves five unreleased films, in post-production, and a final role in a series, “The Idol”, created by The Weeknd, which will be released soon on HBO.
Source: Terra
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