The 53-year-old actress Anne Heche, starred at noon on Friday a ferocious accident. The call received by the Los Angeles Police reported that, at 11 in the morning, a car had rammed an apartment complex. While the witnesses to the event tried to get the driver out of the vehicle, the woman, later recognized as Anne Heche, backed up at full speed and he escaped from the place.
In that maneuver, His vehicle hit the garage of a house and caused a large fire that “engulfed the home.” The news was reported by the American media TMZ, whose journalists spoke with some of the witnesses of the strange episode. According to the information obtained, Heche was driving a blue Mini Cooper in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles when she crashed into a building.
Firefighters pulled her out of the vehicle, which was engulfed in flames, and she was taken directly to a hospital.. According to various local media, the actress suffered several burns and had to be intubated. this sunday magazine People provided more details about what happened when the actress was pulled out of her car and the heartbreaking words she said to people trying to help her in the middle of the fire and before the firefighters arrived.
Lynne Bernstein, who has lived in the area with his wife Natalie since 1976, said that he and his neighbors, Dave and Gabriel, were able to communicate with the actress before she was taken to the hospital. “The vehicle was almost entirely inside the house and it caught fire almost instantly,” the man shared, later repeating the words Heche told him: “I’m not okay.” “We asked her to raise her hand or something, but she told us that she couldn’t, that she was really bad,” recalled the witness of the event and one of the individuals who helped the actress.
On the other hand, Bernstein said that, in such a confusing moment, it was difficult for them to breathe and see clearly around them. Dave, friend and neighbor, was the one who inhaled the most smoke. “The smoke covered him completely, he went behind the house to find an alternative route to access the vehicle, but in the back the situation was already very intense,” added the witness. “[Anne] She was very lucky, as we looked inside the house we thought: ‘How do you survive that?’ Because even we ourselves had difficulty breathing, so I guess someone protected her, as injured as she was.”
The representative of the actress gave a brief statement to People. Although Heche is stable, caution was requested. “Her family and her friends ask that you pray for her and respect her privacy at this very difficult time,” said Ellen DeGeneres’ ex-partner’s agent.
The protagonist of the remake of Psychosis Gus Van Sant once recounted the impact that his relationship with the comedian had on his career. “I was in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres for three and a half years. and the stigma that bond brought at the time was so bad that I got fired from a multi-million dollar contract and didn’t work with a movie studio again for 10 years.“, revealed.
Ellen and Anne, who began dating in 1997, separated in 2000. “Our time together was a beautiful part of my life and something that I carry with honor. I was part of a revolution that brought social change. And I wouldn’t have made it if I hadn’t fallen in love with her, ”said the actress, who rebuilt her life with cameraman Coleman Laffoon at the most turbulent time of her life. The couple, who have a son together, divorced in 2009, although Laffoon had filed for divorce two years earlier.
The actress fell in love with actor James Tupper and in 2008 confirmed that she was expecting her second child. Ten years later, the couple announced their separation. “Our thoughts and prayers are with this lovely woman, actress and mother, Anne Heche. We love you,” Tupper wrote. Instagram in a publication where Heche is seen with Atlas, the 13-year-old son they had together.