Hollywood actress Anne Heche remained hospitalized in critical condition, unconscious, and connected to a respiratory gadget on Monday, August 8, four days after suffering severe injuries in a fiery Los Angeles vehicle crash, a spokesperson for the performer stated.
At this time, she is in severely critical condition,’ says Michael McConnell, part of the talent management company representing her; he additionally added that Heche “has huge pulmonary damage requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention.”
Heche, aged 53, has been hospitalized after the compact car she was using sped out of control in a Westside community of Los Angeles late Friday morning, ploughed into a residence and burst into flames, according to police.
No one in the house was hurt. However, the impact set the residing ablaze, requiring a response by dozens of firefighters.
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson stated on Monday that the reason and instances of the crash continue to be investigated.
Heche came to prominence for her Emmy-winning work in the daytime tv drama Another World and went on to star in other display screen roles such as the HBO series Hung and such movies as Wag the Dog and Cedar Rapids.
She made tabloid headlines in the late 1990s for an affair with comedian Ellen DeGeneres when DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian. Following their split, Heche wed cameraman Coleman Laffoon, but they later divorced, and she spent a few years after she started a relationship with actor James Tupper.
