Sylvie Claire / August 6, 2022
American actress Anne Heche was taken to hospital in critical condition after her car crashed into a house in Los Angeles.
The car and house caught fire and the driver suffered severe burns, U.S. media reported. An anonymous source confirmed to CNN that Anne Heche was involved and the LA Times reports that the car was registered to her.
According to the newspaper, authorities assume Heche, 53, was under the influence of alcohol when she drove her car into the house on Friday morning (local time). There were no other injuries. It took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish the fire that broke out in the house as a result of the accident. Before crashing into the house, it is believed to have crashed into the garage of an apartment building.
Anne Heche first came to prominence in the early 1990s as an actress in the soap opera Another World. She went on to star in such films as Donnie Brasco, Six Days Seven Nights and Wag the Dog. In the late 1990s, she had a relationship with the presenter Ellen DeGeneres, which generated a lot of media attention.
Since then, Anne Heche has had roles in television series such as The Brave, Quantico and Chicago P.D.