Anne Heche in Critical Condition After Crash, Investigated for Hit-and-Run
Written by SOURCE on August 9, 2022
Actress Anne Heche is comatose and in “critical condition” three days after a fiery car wreck in Los Angeles hospitalized her. She is also being investigating for hit-and-run and driving under the influence, although she is neither under arrest nor charged at this point, per the L.A. Times.
“[Anne] has a significant pulmonary injury requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention,” read a rep’s statement to People. “She is in a coma and has not regained consciousness since shortly after the accident.”
The 53-year-old Emmy nominee—whose roles include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Six Days Seven Nights, and Gus Van Sant’s 1998 Psycho remake—drove her Mini Cooper into a home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles on Friday, causing a fire in which she sustained burns. The Times notes Heche “was captured on video crashing into a garage at an apartment building, then narrowly missing a pedestrian before striking a Jaguar.”
TMZ published some of the footage, including video of Heche speeding down a residential street, and claims one photo of the star in her blue vehicle may feature a visible bottle of alcohol.
Police procured a warrant to draw Heche’s blood, though TMZ was informed it could be weeks before those results are available.
Heche’s friend and partner in podcasting, Heather Duffy Boylston, stated, “Her family and friends ask for your thoughts and prayers and to respect her privacy during this difficult time.”
The aforementioned LAT piece cited Heche’s “best known” work as Another World, the soap opera on which she appeared from the mid-’80s through 1992, winning a Daytime Emmy in ’91.
