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The family of American actress

Anne Heche

has assured that the artist suffers from a

severe brain injury

due to her traffic accident and that she is not expected to survive, according to a statement sent to

People

magazine .

"Unfortunately,

Anne

suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a critical coma.

She is not expected to survive.

Her choice has always been

to donate her organs

and she is kept on life support to determine if any of them are viable." , said a representative of the family.

On the other hand, the Los Angeles Police (LAPD) is investigating

whether the actress was driving under the influence of drugs

before the traffic accident last Friday.

The Los Angeles Police Office of Public Information confirmed Thursday to the media that

blood tests reveal the presence of drugs

, although "additional tests are needed to rule out other substances administered in the hospital," Fox News reported.

According to the

TMZ

newspaper , police sources confirmed that

Heche

had used cocaine, according to these analyses, in which traces of fentanyl were also found.

The actress has been in the hospital since Friday, when her blue Mini Cooper

crashed into a house in the Mar Vista area

(Los Angeles, USA) and the vehicle ended up engulfed in flames.

According to the Police, the car was going so fast that it left the road and caught fire when it hit the building, causing severe burns to

Heche

.

Before the incident, multiple security cameras recorded her driving recklessly through a residential area.

In fact, she was involved in two accidents, crashing first into a car and then into a garage from which she fled while a neighbor yelled at her, as can be seen in a video posted on the internet.

Heche

, who had high-profile relationships with actress

Ellen DeGeneres

and actor

James Tupper

, rose to fame in the late 1980s with her portrayal of

Vicky Hudson

and

Marley Love

on the soap opera "Another World," for which she won a Emmy.

She went on to star in several independent films - "Psycho" (1998), "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997), "Six Days, Seven Nights" (1998) - and went on to earn a Tony nomination for the Broadway play "TwentiethCentury".

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