Anne Heche was torn between life and death since last August 5 she suffered a very serious traffic accident in Los Angeles. The 53-year-old American actress lost control of the car she was driving and ended up crashing it into a house in the residential neighborhood of Mar Vista, causing a spectacular fire. She has since been in a coma and intubated at West Hills Hospital's Grossman Burn Center.
"Unfortunately, Anne suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma, in critical condition," the actress' representative said in a statement. “She is not expected to survive. She has long since chosen to donate her organs and is kept on life support to determine if any are viable, ”added the text in which the family expressed their gratitude for the shows of support and for the care received at the medical center. . "Anne had a huge heart (…) she will be remembered for her brave honesty and will be missed for her light", concluded the letter, which made very clear the non-existent hopes of the family in her recovery. .
The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating whether the protagonist of Six Days Seven Nights was driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Before the final accident, the actress's vehicle was involved in two other crashes. Born in Ohio in 1969, Anne Celeste Heche began her career as an actress when she was only 12 years old, working in a theater cafe to help the battered family economy. At 17, she moved to New York to act in the television series Another World, playing the twins Vicki Hudson Frame and Marley McKinnon for four years. Her dual role earned her a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991.
He continued on the small screen in The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones and several telefilms until he drew attention in the film Jury Duress, a judicial thriller in which he shared the poster with Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin. Her subsequent appearances in Smokescreen with Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, the hit disaster movie Volcano opposite Tommy Lee Jones; Donnie Brasco, with Al Pacino and Johnny Depp; the series Ally McBeal and the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer made her a very popular actress in the 1990s.
A fame that was later helped by the entertaining romantic comedy Six Days and Seven Nights (1998), this time with Harrison Ford as his adventure partner. Gus Van Sant offered to take over from Janet Leigh as Marion Crane in the ill-fated remake of Psycho with Vince Vaughn in the role of psychopath Norman Bates.
The entrance of the new century was not so fruitful for his career. Her romantic relationship with the media presenter Ellen DeGeneres between 1997 and 2000 was the target of the gossip press and she herself commented that the romance generated a stigma that caused her to be fired from Fox. "I did not work in a film studio for 10 years", she recounted in 2020 when she was a contestant on the dance show Dancing with the Stars."I took Ellen to the preview of Volcano and they told us that Fox would terminate my contract and that I would be fired. They told us that we could not allow the press to take pictures of us together That same week we were both fired.” It should be remembered that at that time coming out of the closet was not allowed without consequences.
Heche left DeGeneres to go with cameraman Coleman Laffon, an intimate of the presenter, whom she considered "a brother." The couple had a son, Homer. The relationship did not prosper either and she Heche left Laffon for actor James Tupper, with whom she was until 2018. As a result of her union, her second child was born, named Atlas Heche Tupper.
Although the big screen turned its back on him for a time when he only appeared in inglorious films, Heche found refuge on television with the series Men in Trees, Hung, The Michael J. Fox Show and The Brave. She was nominated for a Tony for the Broadway play Twentieth Century and an Emmy for her work as a drug-addicted mother in Gracie's Choice.
For this 2022 he premiered the adventure drama Supercell and the HBO series The idol, with The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp. Looking ahead to next year, he had the horror movies Full ride pending, alongside Dermot Mulroney, and Chasing nightmares.
Anne Heche published her memoir called Call me crazy in 2001 and in its pages she recounted a life full of difficulties, marked by the loss of her three brothers and the sexual abuse she suffered from her father, who died of AIDS when she was a teenager. Ella's sister Cynthia died as a child, her brother Nathan died in a car accident she considers to be "suicide," and her sister Susan died of a brain tumor in 2006.
Very hard blows that, as he acknowledged, caused him great emotional instability. In the same book she showed off having a parallel personality called 'Celestia', a reincarnation of God who could contact aliens. Such statements of hers further removed her from serious projects in the film industry, where she was considered a problematic actress. However, she never stopped working. Until the misfortune that had hit her family relentlessly knocked on her door again. Hollywood mourns her death today.
