Hollywood actress Anne Heche, known for movies from the 1990s like Donnie Brasco and Six Days, Seven Nights, has been declared legally dead on 12 August 2022.
This comes a week after the 53-year-old crashed her car into a Mar Vista house, which burst into flames and left her with a severe brain injury and burns.
Injuries from Car Crash Quickly Escalated
On 5 August, Heche crashed her car and had to be rescued from the fiery scene. The fire was so heavy that it reportedly took 59 firefighters more than an hour to contain and fully extinguish the flames.
Heche was rushed to the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles.
She was reportedly in stable condition after the crash, and was even speaking to the firefighters who cut her free from the crash scene. However, she lost consciousness shortly afterwards.
On 8 August, her representatives gave an update stating that she was in “extreme critical condition” and has went into a coma. Heche was declared “brain dead”, which is the definition of death under California law, on 12 August afternoon.
She has been taken off of life support, although her heartbeat was still being maintained in case it could be donated.
Blood Test Showed Positive Results for Drugs
Preliminary tests of Heche’s blood showed a positive result for drugs, according to local media reports on 11 August. Celebrity gossip magazine TMZ has said that the positive results were for cocaine and fentanyl.
However, more tests are needed to ensure that the drugs weren’t administered during her treatment in the hospital. Specifically, fentanyl is sometimes used for pain relief in clinical settings.
It is still unclear why the car crash happened.
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Rose to Fame Through Acting and High-Profile Relationship with Ellen
Her role as twins in the soap opera Another World won Heche a Daytime Emmy back in 1991, and catapulted her to fame. Her first major film role was as Johnny Depp’s girlfriend in the 1997 gangster drama Donnie Brasco.
In 1997, she was also cast in the slasher classic I Know What You Did Last Summer. The same year, she began a three-year high-profile relationship with the talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, after the comedian came out as gay.
She was also nominated for, but did not win, a Tony award for her role in Twentieth Century on Broadway in 2004.
You can view the actress’ full works here.
The actress is survived by her two sons, 20-year-old Homer and 13-year-old Atlas, and divorced husband Coleman Laffoon.
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