Anne Heche is in critical condition, on a ventilator after the accident
Anne Heche remained hospitalized on a ventilator and underwent surgery on Tuesday, four days after the actor was injured in a car accident.
“Shortly after the accident, Anne passed out, went into a coma, and is in critical condition.” spokeswoman Heather Duffy Boylston said in an email. “She has a serious lung injury that requires mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention. Pulmonary means dealing with the lungs. podcast buddy. On August 5, Heche’s car crashed into a home in the Mar Vista area of west Los Angeles. Flames broke out and firefighters pulled Heche, who was alone in the car, from the vehicle embedded in the home. It took more than an hour for 60 firefighters to put out the blazes, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Originally from Ohio, Heche rose to fame on the NBC soap opera Another World from 1 to 1991, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award.
Her film career began in the late 1990s when Heche played stars like Johnny Depp
(“Donnie Brasco”) and Harrison Ford (“Six Days, Seven Nights”). In her 2001 memoir, Call Me Crazy, Heche opened up about her lifelong mental health struggles and abusive childhood. She was married to cinematographer Coleman Laffoon from 2001 to 2009. The two have a son together. She had another child while in a relationship with actor James Tupper, her co-star on the television series Men In Trees. Heche has consistently worked in smaller films, on Broadway, and on television shows over the past two decades.
Roles on the network series Chicago P. and All Rise, and in 2020 he took part in Dancing With the Stars.