Actress Anne Heche is pronounced brain dead

The actress undergoes artificial respiration until it is determined if it is possible to donate organs.

The family and friends of Anne Heche, 53, were hoping for a miracle after the actress’s terrible car accident. 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 on Friday 5th. About 60 firefighters fought the fire caused by the collision. 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 website TMZ, the suspicion arose after witnesses reported that the actress made irregular 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.

He had just finished shooting the show. Girl in room 13, from the Lifetime pay channel, which explores the dark underworld 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, starting in the 1980s on the soap opera Another world. She has starred in films such as Donnie Brasco (1997), I know what you did last summer (1997), the remake of Psychosis (1998) and Six days, seven nights (1998), in which it was a love interest for Harrison Ford. 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, as she became involved with a camera assistant and, later, with James Tupper, her love interest in the series. Men in the trees, with whom she had a son. The 2006 series, by the way, was her biggest success and anticipated a storyline model that has been successfully revived to date, see virgin river on Netflix.

On TV she did too Suspended, to say, quantum, consequences, The brave And Chicago PDamong many other attractions.

He leaves five unreleased films, in post-production, and one last role in a series, The idolcreated by The Weeknd, coming to HBO.

Source: Terra

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