Hollywood actress Anne Heche remained hospitalized in critical condition, comatose and connected to a ventilator on Monday, four days after being seriously injured in a car crash in Los Angeles, a spokeswoman said. of the artist said.
Heche, 53, was hospitalized shortly after the compact car she was driving lost control in the Westside neighborhood of Los Angeles on Friday morning, crashed into a house and caught fire, according to police. cop.
No one inside the house was injured, but the impact set the house on fire, requiring dozens of firefighters to respond.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department on Monday said the cause and circumstances of the crash were still under investigation.
Michael McConnell, a member of the Los Angeles talent agency that represents her, Zero Gravity Management, said Heche was in a coma and hasn’t regained consciousness since the accident shortly after.
“At this point, she is in extremely critical condition,” he told Reuters in a text message, noting that Heche “had severe lung damage that required mechanical ventilation and burns that required surgical intervention.” art.”
The Los Angeles Times quoted Venice Beach shop owner Richard Glass as recounting Heche’s visit to his shop shortly before the accident, describing her as “a sweet little girl” when She bought a red wig on Friday morning.
Heche became famous for his Emmy-winning work on daytime dramas Another world and went on to star on other screens including the HBO series hang and movies like Wag the Dog and quick cedar.
She appeared in the tabloids in the late 1990s for her relationship with comedian Ellen DeGeneres around the time DeGeneres came out as a lesbian. Following their split, Heche married cinematographer Coleman Laffoon, but they later divorced, and she spent a few years afterward in a relationship with actor James Tupper, her co-star in the show. short TV show The man in the tree.
