Hollywood actress Anne Heche was hospitalized, unconscious and in a coma on Monday, four days after she was seriously injured in a violent car crash in Los Angeles, where she was connected to a ventilator. said a spokesperson for the performer.
Heche, 53, was hospitalized shortly after the compact car she was driving ran out of control late Friday morning in Los Angeles' West Side neighborhood, ramming it into a home and setting it ablaze, police said.
No one was injured in the house, but the impact set the house on fire, requiring dozens of firefighters to respond.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department said Monday that the cause and circumstances of the crash are under investigation.
Heche is in a coma and has not regained consciousness since shortly after her crash, said her Michael McConnell, a member of Zero Gravity Management, the Los Angeles talent management firm that represents her. rice field.
"At this time, she is in an extremely critical condition," he told Reuters in his message over text, adding, "Severe lung damage requiring ventilator and surgical intervention." I have the burns I need," he said.
Los Angeles Her Times quoted Venice her beach saloon owner Richard Her Glass, recounting when Heche visited his shop shortly before the crash, saying, described her as a "pretty girl" who bought a red wig on Friday. morning.
Heche rose to fame with his Emmy Award-winning work on the daytime TV drama Another World and other films. These include the HBO series Hung where he went on to star in the role and films such as Wag the Dog and Cedar Rapids.
She made tabloid headlines in the late 1990s when comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian.After the breakup, Heche married photographer Coleman Laffoon. However, she later divorced and for several years dated actor James Tupper, who she co-starred in the short-lived TV show Men in Trees.
