LOC Actress Anne Heche, in critical condition after a car accident
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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