WEEK AFTER A CAR ACCIDENT, ACTOR ANNE HECHE PASSED AWAY

Fri 12 August 2022:

Anne Heche, an American actress, died a week after being badly injured in a vehicle accident.

A spokesman for her family confirmed the news to the US online media source TMZ, saying in a statement, “We have lost a bright light, a kind and most joyful soul, a loving mother, and a loyal friend.

On Friday afternoon, Heche’s representatives confirmed she was “brain dead,” which is the legal definition of death in California. Heche’s life support was turned off earlier in the day, according to reports. Her heartbeat was apparently kept going in case an appropriate organ donation could take place.

Many believed Heche would survive when her publicist reported her in “stable” condition after crashing her car into a residence in Los Angeles on August 5. She was communicating to firefighters when she was cut free from the wreckage and rushed to the hospital, according to firefighters.

However, the actor soon lost consciousness, and on August 8, representatives released an update, stating that Heche was in “extreme critical condition” and had slipped into a coma.

Heche, an actor of sharp intelligence, rose to prominence in the early 1990s, playing twins on the soap Another World, and with film roles, including the part of Laura in Nicole Holofcener’s debut feature, Walking and Talking.

Her first major role was as Johnny Depp’s girlfriend in gangster drama Donnie Brasco (1997). In the same year she was cast in other enduring titles: political satire Wag the Dog, disaster movie Volcano and slasher classic I Know What You Did Last Summer.

In 2001, Heche married cameraman Coleman Laffoon, with whom she had Homer. The marriage ended in divorce and in 2009, Heche had another son, Atlas, with James Tupper, her Men in Trees co-star.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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