Alec Baldwin is one of the celebrities who has come under fire for defending Anne Heche after the actress allegedly drove intoxicated and slammed into a house following a 100 mph joyride.
Baldwin referred to Heche in a video he shared on Instagram on Saturday as “an extremely gifted woman” and urged his followers to offer their “support and love” to the 53-year-old actress, who is presently being treated at a nearby hospital and is doing well.
Baldwin, who is still under fire for fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his movie last year, said, “Hey, I just want to give out my best wishes and all my love to Anne Heche.”
Baldwin introduced Anne as an old friend and remarked, “There aren’t many women I’ve worked with that are fearless in the manner that Anne is brave.”
Then he remembered how they both appeared in the Broadway play Twentieth Century, for which Heche received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play. In the 1996 judicial thriller The Juror, they also acted together.
Baldwin, 64, praised Heche as “an extremely talented woman.”
“I adore you, Anne, and I think you are such a gifted individual. I hope everything works out and that you survive this. My sympathy is with you.
He said, “I’m sorry this sad incident happened to you, and I’m giving you all my love.”
“I want everyone to join me in offering love and support to the amazing Anne Heche. Thanks.’
Many, including Instagram user LisaDoo50, criticised Baldwin for his support, asking: “What about the folks she almost killed?” Is she more essential?
Heche’s 13 Minutes co-star Peter Facinelli also posted a photo of the two of them on his Instagram Story with the statement, “Praying for you and your beautiful family.”
Additionally, actress Rosanna Arquette tweeted that Anne Heche was hospitalised after suffering severe burns in a car accident.
This is just tragic, wrote Arquette. Say, “Pray for her.”
Big Little Lies actor James Tupper, who dated Heche for ten years and has a 13-year-old son with her, posted about the tragedy on Instagram and expressed their hopes for Heche’s quick recovery on behalf of their kid.
He wrote, “Thoughts and prayers for this beautiful woman, actor, and mother tonight.” We adore you.
Others on the internet, however, criticised Heche for driving at 90 mph into a Mar Vista house and setting it on fire.
She had previously been seen with what seemed to be a bottle of vodka in her Mini Clubman’s cupholder, and she had mentioned drinking vodka with wine chasers on an episode of her podcast that had just been made available hours before the accident.
She was driving while intoxicated, according to Live Free or Die Hard actor Dennis Depew, who also noted that the woman who killed everyone on the corner of La Brea and Slauson yesterday was also driving while intoxicated.
He advised: “Anne Heche needs to go to treatment ASAP. Once they release her from the ER, she’ll definitely get arrested and charged.”
Political consultant Nathan Schneider also tweeted: “She may have killed someone.”
Before Heche hurts someone, she needs to receive significant mental health treatment.
Heche may have hit a curb when she swerved into an apartment complex’s garage in her blue Mini Clubman while driving in the Mar Vista neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
Locals flocked to the stranded actress’ aid, with one man yelling for her to exit the vehicle.
She disregarded the advise and put her car into reverse, restarted the ignition, and drove off down the road at a high rate of speed.
After the initial collision, she was seen on camera and in pictures appearing confused behind the wheel. A witness also saw her driving with a bottle with a red top in the car.
Later, she abruptly turned off the road once more, ploughed through a hedge, and slammed into a house in the 1800 block of South Walgrove Avenue.
The blue Mini Cooper crashed 30 feet into the house, but the owner managed to flee unharmed.
After the collision, she fled to a neighbour’s home for protection and spent the remainder of the day there.
Fortunately, neither she nor her two dogs suffered any injuries, as neighbour Roy Morgen told ABC 7. She just so happened to be seated next to them.
“She was just in the home with us to explain that the dogs were sitting with her when the automobile came roaring through, and the car stopped about two feet from where she was sitting.”
Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department, stated that her home is now “uninhabitable,” adding that the impact of the car caused “structural damage” and ignited a “major fire.”
Heche was still awake and able to talk as she was extricated from the rubble despite the rapidity of the collision and the ferocity of the accompanying fire, Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Erik Scott told ABC 7 in the wake of the incident.
“We had a single car that looked to be travelling at a high speed on a perpendicular street and launched through the front yard into the residence when we arrived on the scene,” the responding officers said.
She was talking to us at the time that we were able to bring her out, so that’s a good sign, Scott said, adding that Heche, a mother of two, was stuck in her car while the flames advanced.
A neighbour who saw the collision and informed NBC 4 that Heche had to be removed from the burning car by a crane.
Up to 30 minutes may have passed while she battled the sweltering heat inside the on fire car until 59 firefighters came and pulled her to safety.
After her automobile caught fire mid-morning on Friday, Heche was subsequently seen being hauled from the burning wreck by firefighters.
Before being loaded into the back of an ambulance and hurried to a nearby acute care unit, she was observed squirming around on the stretcher.
The burned-out wreckage of her Mini Clubman, which was being removed from a hedge across the street from a school in the Mar Vista neighbourhood, is also visible in horrifying pictures.
Additionally, a doorcam video shows the actress’s car rushing down a Mar Vista street before colliding with a house and setting it on fire.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said that it took 59 personnel 65 minutes to extinguish the “stubborn flames” and “rescue one adult female located inside the vehicle.”
Following the terrible incident, Heche is currently described as “stable,” a family spokesman informed People Magazine.
Her family and friends ask that you respect her privacy during this trying time and keep them in your prayers, the rep said.
She is still being intubated in the hospital, but Thomas Jane, Heche’s ex-boyfriend, previously told DailyMail.com that she is “expected to pull through.”
Jane, 53, also offered her an emotional tribute, calling her “one of the true talents of her time” and offering her his “thoughts and prayers” despite the fact that they are no longer together.
Homer and Atlas, who she had with her ex-boyfriend James Tupper and cameraman Coleman Luffoon, respectively, are Heche’s two kids.
While Anne and I are no longer a couple, the awful news of today was upsetting to me and to everyone who loves her, according to Jane, who dated Anne in 2019 and 2020 and collaborated with her on the HBO series Hung.
“Anne and her two sons have my deepest sympathies.”
Currently stable and anticipated to survive, Anne. Anne, who is one of the true talents of her generation, is in my thoughts and prayers. God is good that none else was wounded.
They even bought a property together and dated as recently as 2020.
They have been friends for more than ten years and acted together as a divorcing couple in Hung from 2009 to 2011.
Heche, who is originally from Aurora, Ohio, most recently appeared in the action film 13 Minutes opposite Thora Birch, Amy Smart, and Will Peltz.
She and her ex-husband James Tupper went through a very public divorce in January 2018.
The couple has been together for ten years and has a 13-year-old son named Atlas.
She gained notoriety in the 1990s for her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres.
She invited the talk show presenter to the 1997 world premiere of her film Volcano.
She said that as a result of the incident, Hollywood “blacklisted” her.
She said to Page Six, “I didn’t do a studio picture for ten years.” “I was sacked from a $10 million movie deal and did not appear in a studio picture,” the actor claimed.
She was discovered confused and mumbling in the California desert after she and Ellen broke up. After breaking up with the comedian, she stumbled into a stranger’s house before being taken to the hospital.
I was instructed to travel to a location and meet a spaceship there. I was informed that I would need to take an ecstasy hit in order to board the spaceship, Heche said.
Fresno marked the end of a journey and of the world to which I had believed I had to flee in order to find love.
The director wed Coley Laffoon not long after they started dating.
Homer Laffoon, a 20-year-old son, is also a shared child.
In 2009, two years after the couple had called it quits on their relationship, Heche and the cameraman divorced. James Tupper, the blonde’s co-star in Men in Trees, and the blonde later began dating; they broke up in 2018.
James Tupper, Heche’s ex, and Atlas are parents together.
Heche had a relationship with actor Thomas Jane more recently. The two had co-starred in the provocatively titled 2009–2011 HBO series Hung as an angry divorced couple.
They both had other relationships at the time. He is with Patricia Arquette, while she is with James Tupper.
They collaborated once more over ten years later, playing a married couple in the Netflix independent thriller The Vanished.
Although they are no longer together, the couple made their affair public in the latter part of 2019. Heche has previously been transparent about her struggles with drug misuse.
“I drank.” I lit up. I smoked pot. I engaged in human sex. She told ABC News in 2001, “I did everything I could to get the shame out of my life.
She said that her decisions were influenced by a difficult childhood in which her father, Donald Heche, sexually assaulted her.
“I’m not insane, but life is wild,” you say. It took me 31 years to get the crazy out of me since I was raised in a weird home.
“I had a fantasy world where I could disappear.” I gave my other self the name Celestia. I thought I belonged in that world. I thought I was from an other world. I believe I was crazy.
Heche described her father’s assault as follows: “He raped me, he pushed his d**k in my mouth, he fondled me, he put me on all fours, and he had sex with me.”
Children find it difficult to discuss abuse because it only exists in their memories. I didn’t carry a tape recorder with me. Nothing was chiselled into stone by me.
Anyone who takes the time to look may ask, “How do you know for sure?” One of the most unpleasant aspects about it is that. Heche stated in the 2001 interview, “You don’t.
Heche also disclosed that she had herpes as a small child, although she was not of whether her mother was aware that her father was abusing her.
“I experienced a rash, blisters, and welts on my lips and nose,” the person said.
She claimed that she doesn’t identify as straight, gay, or bisexual. I would never declare I would only be with a man or a woman, she continued.