Following a brain damage sustained in a catastrophic LA vehicle accident last week, Anne Heche has been formally pronounced brain dead and will be taken off life support.
According to Heche’s desires, the 53-year-old actress will remain on a ventilator to see if any of her remaining organs are still healthy enough to be given. She is in a severe state and in a coma.
According to a statement issued Thursday night on behalf of Heche’s family and friends, the August 5 incident left her with a “serious anoxic brain damage.”
She is now being treated at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills Hospital, north of Los Angeles.
Such a damage is brought on by a persistent deficiency of oxygen to the brain.
“We want to thank everyone for their warm thoughts and prayers for Anne’s recovery,” a spokeswoman for her family stated.
“We also want to thank the committed staff and amazing nurses who cared for Anne at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital.”
Sadly, Anne Heche’s accident caused a severe anoxic brain injury, and she is still in a critical condition and in a coma. It is unlikely that she will live.
Heche will continue to receive life support until doctors can determine if she has any viable organs to offer since, according to them, it has “long been her decision” to be an organ donor.
“Anne had a tremendous heart and impacted everyone she met with her giving nature,” the statement read.
Beyond her great skill, she considered it her life’s purpose to inspire compassion and joy, particularly by promoting acceptance of who you love.
She will be missed much for her brightness and remembered for her brave honesty.
The actress, 53, was last seen struggling for her life in the “worst condition you can imagine” while lying in a coma after slamming into a home last Friday while “high on cocaine.”
According to Heather Duffy Boylston, a representative for Heche, Heche had lung injuries that necessitated ventilator usage and burns that necessitated surgery on Tuesday.
According to LAPD spokesperson Officer Jeff Lee, detectives with a search warrant collected a sample of Heche’s blood and discovered drugs in her system.
Following the terrible accident, it was revealed that Heche’s blood was discovered to contain fentanyl and cocaine.
Despite being seen with a vodka bottle in her cupholder, officials said she had not been drinking.
She is in terrible shape, a close friend of the actress told DailyMail.com. Inhaling smoke poses a serious health risk.
If she survives this and awakens from her coma, it will be a miracle.
According to the actress’s representative, the actress was severely burned after she lost control of her car and it crashed into a house.
To “access, confine and fully extinguish the stubborn flames” brought on by Heche’s crash, it took 59 firefighters 65 minutes.
According to a source who asked to remain anonymous, “She will be in a coma for a very long time and there are fears she could die because her lungs don’t work on their own.”
Firefighters were seen rescuing Heche from the horrific scene while wrapping her in a white towel to presumably prevent infection of her severe burns.
Later, as they loaded Heche into the ambulance, they were seen ripping the towels off of her.
Due to Lynne Mishele’s injuries and reports that the actress was under the influence of cocaine, sources told TMZ that LAPD is investigating the horrific accident as a possible felony.
The extent of Mishele’s wounds is not yet known.
According to her representative, Heche “has a significant pulmonary injury requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention.”
They said, “She is in a coma and has not awakened since immediately after the accident.”
According to Showbiz411, Heche is receiving care at the Grossman Burn Unit, which was established by Dr. Peter Grossman’s father.
Two boys, ages 11 and 8, were killed while crossing the street with their parents at a designated crosswalk, according to accusations made against his wife Rebecca Grossman. She entered a not-guilty plea.
Earlier on Monday, newly released video showed the minutes leading up to the collision when Heche almost ran over a lady.
She was seen rushing through an alleyway in the city’s Mar Vista neighbourhood when a pedestrian was seen crossing the street.
Just before 11 a.m. on Friday, the unidentified lady spun around in shock as the blue Mini Clubman sped by.
Heche, who was intubated with terrible burns following the harrowing disaster, is going to be looked into for the 90 mph collision, according to police sources.
She was seen in a witness’s before-crash photo driving a blue Mini Clubman while holding a bottle with a red top, appearing glassy-eyed.
Meanwhile, fresh pictures revealed the horrified homeowner’s reaction as she saw her “entire lifetime of goods” burn to the ground following the horrific incident on Friday morning.
Lynne Mishele was seen watching in shock as the actress tore through her life’s work at breakneck speed, causing everything to explode in a blaze.
59 firemen fought the sizable fire, which took more than an hour to put out, while she stood outside on the sidewalk with her hands in her pockets and an expression of shock on her face.
Heche’s Mini initially overturned on a garage block, then she sped off, smashed into a hedge, and finally ended up completely buried in Mishele’s house on 1766 South Walgrove Avenue.
Prior to the deadly collision at Mishele’s residence, footage also captures Heche’s blue Mini Clubman barreling down a tiny alleyway at breakneck speed.
Despite a woman being seen crossing the exit onto the main road, she did not immediately apply the brakes; the actress only did so just in time.
The stumbling pedestrian turns around to gaze at the automobile as it speeds off into the distance, bringing the five-second movie to a close.
According to the sources, they obtained a warrant to sample her blood since they thought she was drunk, but it may take weeks for the findings.
According to them, the actress might be charged with hit-and-run for the garage accident in which she fled the scene despite being seen on camera by astonished bystanders.
Before the accident, a slurring Heche made light of drinking vodka with wine chasers on a podcast, saying she was having a “really awful day” at the time.
Just hours before she slammed her vehicle into the home, her co-hosted show Better Together aired.
Refined, a vodka distillery that sponsored one of her programmes, allegedly handed her and her co-host Heather Duffy free booze.
We each have a bottle of Refined in front of us since our friends gave us a bottle of it.
I believe we once made a poor commercial for them back in the day.
Duffy says, “Dr. Rahm suggested that we should be drinking vodka instead of wine, and we listened, and we are drinking it.” Heche responds, “And we are drinking it.”
After Duffy says they are using wine to find the vodka, Heche says, “Today has been a really strange day.”
“I don’t know what happened, sometimes days just suck, and I don’t know if you ever had those no good, very horrible days, and sometimes days just wind up like this,” the speaker said.
She adds, “I don’t know whether you ever had days like this, but you know certain days, Mama says simply going to be like this.” There are certain days that are really terrible.
“I don’t know why certain days simply wind up like this, and things don’t really shake me like that,” the speaker said.
Later, she admitted that she had a difficult week and described how individuals had disturbed her when she was meditating in her apartment.
It’s still unknown if the podcast was really recorded on Friday or whether that was merely the day it went up.
Despite the claimed drinking on the podcast, Anne Heche didn’t have any alcohol in her system when she wrecked the vehicle, claims TMZ.