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One of the last images of Anne Heche in March of this year, when she attended an awards ceremony in California.
The family of the American actress Anne Heche reported that she is not expected to survive the accident she suffered on August 5 when her car crashed into a house in Los Angeles and was engulfed in flames.
The actress remains in a coma and suffers “a serious anoxic brain injury”, which occurs when the brain is deprived of oxygen.
“We want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers for Anne’s recovery and to thank the dedicated doctors and wonderful nurses,” the family added.
Heche, 53 years old, es mother of two children and acted in such films as Donnie Brasco, Cedar Rapids Convention, Volcano, Six Days Seven Nights, and the 1998 remake of the classic Psycho.
His name began to sound loud in the entertainment world when fShe was nominated for Leading Young Actress in a Drama Series at the Emmy Awards. for her performance on Another World in the early 1990s. Her other television work includes appearances on Ally McBeal, Chicago PD and the celebrity dance floor show Dancing with the stars.
Relations and confessions
At the end of the 1990s, the actress was also known for her love affair with the television presenter Ellen DeGeneresat a time when homosexual relationships were not so widespread in Hollywood.
That’s why the couple received a lot of press attention when they went together to the premiere of the movie Volcano in 1997. A year later the actress appeared in an episode of Ellen, her partner’s comedy.
The actress later confessed that making her love for another woman public cost her jobs in the entertainment industry in those years.
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Anne Heche had a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres at the end of the last decade of the last century.
“It was not a long-term love relationship, (but) it was a moment in my life where I was given the glory of being able to stand up for what I believe in and have believed in since I was a child,” she said in an interview.
In the family statement, after the accident, it is highlighted that Heche “fought especially for self-acceptance, love who you love. She will be remembered for her brave honesty and missed for her light.”
The accident
The actress is admitted to the West Hills Hospital Grossman Burn Center and is on assisted ventilation to determine if her organs are viable for donationexplained his family in his statement.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the actress’s car “exploded in a strong fire” after it was introduced more than 9 meters inside the house, which was left “uninhabitable”.
The only inhabitant of the building was uninjured.
Police said on Friday that preliminary blood tests had revealed the presence of drugs in his system, but additional tests were needed to rule out any substances administered at the hospital.
The Los Angeles Police Department told the PA news agency that the incident was being investigated as a felony traffic collision due to driving under the influence.
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