Anne Heche Car Accident: Actress Declared Brain Dead, But Still on Life Support for Potential Organ Donation

According to a representative for the actress, Anne Heche has been ruled brain dead even though she is still on life support for organ donation.

Heche is "legally dead according to California law," but her heart is still beating and she hasn't been taken off of life support so that "OneLegacy may see if she is a match for organ donation," according to the actress' spokeswoman Holly Baird.

Actress Anne Heche Declared Legally Dead

Following a vehicle accident on August 5, the actress sustained a serious anoxic brain injury and wasn't expected to live, according to a prior health update provided by the actress' team on Thursday. Per Hollywood Reporter, Baird said that the celebrity had been in a hospital since the accident and was in a severe condition.

A Los Angeles Fire Department report claims the actress struck a two-story house with her automobile in the Mar Vista district of Los Angeles, resulting in a fire. Anne Heche was previously identified by the Los Angeles Police Department to THR as being under investigation for misdemeanor hit-and-run and drunk driving related to the incident.

Anne Heche has two boys who are 20 and 13 years old. She is well-known for the movies 'Volcano', 'Six Days', 'Seven Nights', and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'. On television, she has been in 'Men in Trees', 'Hung', and 'All Rise'. For her work on the NBC soap opera 'Another World,' she was honored with a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991.

'Girl in Room 13' Starring Anne Heche Still Scheduled To Premiere

The network's upcoming feature 'Girl in Room 13', in which Anne Heche stars as a mother looking for her lost daughter, is still scheduled to air in September, Lifetime said earlier on Thursday. Police had earlier claimed to be looking into Anne Heche's suspected driving while intoxicated. Her blood was drawn by detectives with a search warrant, and they discovered drugs in her system, according to LAPD spokesman Officer Jeff Lee.

To identify the medications more precisely and to distinguish them from any prescription she may have been prescribed for treatment at the hospital, toxicology tests must be carried out. These tests might take weeks to complete, CBS News reported. Police stated that they are still gathering evidence from the collision and that after their investigation is over, if necessary, they would bring a case to prosecutors. Heche's spokesperson declined to comment on the probe.

According to Heather Duffy Boylston, a representative for Heche, she has been in a coma since the accident, sustained burns that required surgery, and had lung damage that necessitated the use of a ventilator to breathe. Lynne Mishele, the resident at the time of the accident, uploaded a video on Instagram on Thursday. Anne Heche has a GoFundMe page set up for her. Heche, 53, was one of Hollywood's most well-known movie actresses in the late 1990s, playing opposite with Johnny Depp.

The next movie on Heche's Internet movie page is another drama called 'What Remains,' which is said to be about a small-town pastor who "is forced to reckon with an act of forgiveness when the convict he forgave for murdering his wife returns to town five years later while the town sheriff investigates another murder that may be related."

Per NY Post, though it's unclear how she fits into the narrative, Heche is credited as playing a character by the name of Maureen. The 'What Remains,' cast is completed by actors Cress Williams, Kellan Lutz, Marcus Gladney Jr., Stelio Savante, and Juliana Destefano. The project was written and directed by Nathan Scoggins, and it was shot in Amarillo, Canyon, and Claude, Texas, in October 2021.

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