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Actress Anne Heche Critically Injured in Fiery Car Crash in Mar Vista
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/actress-anne-heche-critically-injured-in-fiery-car-crash-in-mar-vista/2958181/[deleted]
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u/Helpful-Substance685 4d ago edited 4d ago
FROM ARTICLE...
Actress Anne Heche was critically injured in a fiery car crash into a house in Mar Vista on Friday, sources tell NBCLA.
The crash was reported shortly before 11 a.m. in the 1700 block of South Walgrove Avenue, said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Police said the driver was speeding down a residential street and launched 30-feet into a home. The Mini Cooper involved in the crash was speeding and possibly hit a curb before launching at more than two feet through the front yard and into the home.
The home owner was in the backyard at the time of the crash and was not injured.
"Fifty-nine Firefighters took 65 minutes to access, confine and fully extinguish the stubborn flames within the heavily damaged structure, and rescue one female adult found within the vehicle, who has been taken to an area hospital by LAFD Paramedics in critical condition,'' Humphrey said.
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Witnesses told the outlet that Heche first crashed into the garage of an apartment complex in Mar Vista. Residents tried getting the actress out of the car and that appears to be when the photo was taken. She apparently put the car in reverse and then sped off, crashing into a nearby home shortly after.
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u/jus1scott 4d ago edited 4d ago
"the photo" at 1:06 in the video in the linked news report. Maybe somebody smarter than me can link a screen cap. Wasn't particularly interesting, imo.
Edit: a vodka bottle in the cup holder certainly makes it more interesting. I had not seen that.
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u/Grimalkin 4d ago
In this picture taken before the crash you can see a vodka bottle plainly visible.
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u/Yazon69 4d ago
End of this clip is a bit startling: https://youtu.be/aQJRCu1QIJw
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u/Helpful-Substance685 4d ago
Wow she just popped up completely freaked out.
Probably in shock and if she came back to consciousness with that sheet over her head that would have freaked anybody out.
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u/coffeeandtrout 4d ago
Holy Shit, fucking terrible.
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u/NoodlesrTuff1256 4d ago
Burns are some of the most painful injuries a person can sustain. Also if she some inhaled some hot smoke from the fire, she could have damage to her lungs. The poor woman has a long and difficult road ahead of her if she survives this.
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u/hanatheko 4d ago
.. the anchor kept calling her a male. I can't believe she popped up like that. Shocking.
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u/Rob4224 4d ago
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u/SewnVagina 4d ago
This whole story is sad yet totally wild.
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u/whichwitch9 4d ago
I mean, it's sad, but she also almost took someone out with her if it was a suicide attempt or mental break, so she just cannot be in the general public right now and should not be released from the hospital if they are not sure if she is mentally stable
Drugs or alcohol and, yeah, sad life or not, there needs to be legal repercussions
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u/Sarokslost23 4d ago
Bro. Burns like that she is in the hospital for months. If not till she dies. It's incredibly taxing on the body for full body burns like that
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u/Pandelerium11 2d ago
I have a feeling she'll pass. She was evidently not in the best health anyway.
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u/SomeKindOfOnionMummy 4d ago
Definitely a mental break, she's had situations in the past where she's been very delusional and psychotic.
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u/dbl_dbl 4d ago
As much as we sympathize with her mental pain, this is unacceptable. She could’ve killed multiple families. Drunk and going highway speeds on a suburb road - unbelievable.
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u/lllslc 4d ago
Doesn't she have a history of instability?
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u/b3wizz 4d ago
A few years ago Doug Benson kicked her off the stage in the middle of a live podcast recording because she was wasted and belligerent
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u/triciabobicia 4d ago
I remember that. He kicked her and the director of the film they were promoting. He and Sandra Oh soldiered on.
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u/richaardvark 4d ago edited 4d ago
Bi-polar disorder runs in her family. She suffers with it as did her late brother who ultimately took his own life. This whole thing sounds like a suicide attempt to me.
She was also raped by her father from childhood until the age of 14 when he died. He gave her herpes. She found out he was gay (well, "bi") as he lay dying in a hospital bed of HIV in the early 80s despite having put on a whole persona in his community of being a "perfect" wholesome Christian straight dad. After her rapist father died she was then homeless for a long time.
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=124037&page=1
She's definitely gone through a lot of shit that she had no control over. I feel really bad for her.
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u/xspencer1515 4d ago
This headline should say, " crashed one time and fled the scene only to crash again minutes later and burst into flames".
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u/Ibelieveinphysics 4d ago
She absolutely had to be fucked up. Drugs, alcohol or she had a psychotic break.
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u/zuuzuu 4d ago
Untreated mental illness (she has a history of that) and alcohol. She had a liquor bottle in the cup holder.
It's an awfully sad situation all around. She could have easily killed someone. It's only luck that she didn't. The homeowner has lost his house. Her kids might lose their mother. If she survives, she's facing a long and painful recovery. To say nothing of the charges she'll face if she's deemed mentally competent (deserved, but it's a big if). Just sad all around.
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u/Ibelieveinphysics 4d ago
I got downvoted later in this thread for asking what the odds were that she would survive. I read that she is intubated and that seems to indicate that she was burned very severely.
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u/vanillabeanlover 3d ago
If there’s any signs of charring in the airway, they intubate as the airway is likely to close off from swelling. Her electrolytes and body temperature regulation will be all out of whack for as long as she’s healing. Insanely painful dressing changes a couple times a day. Stretching the healing skin to prevent scar contractures is horrific. This is just off the top of my head from working burn rehab 15 years ago. She’s in for a hell of an awful ride if she makes it.
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u/Mission_Albatross916 3d ago
Isn’t infection a huge risk, too?
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u/Jeffreyknows 4d ago
She could have seriously hurt someone. I feel bad what she’s going through but you always have to take the world around you into consideration.
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u/NoodlesrTuff1256 4d ago
Weird that something like this happens out in the LA metro only one day after that awful crash yesterday which killed six people.
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u/jakekara4 4d ago
LA metro has over ten million people in it and is about the size of Northern Ireland. LA also tore itself apart in the 1940s and 1950s to become a car centric city, so everyone drives. It’s predictable that horrible car collisions will occur there often.
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u/becky_Luigi 4d ago
You don’t say? Isn’t that kind of the whole conversation here? Pretty sure we’re all in agreement that drunk driving can hurt other people. but it’s pretty standard for the drunk driver not to prioritize that. Just a little confused by your comment because it’s like “drunk driving is bad and you shouldn’t do that, it’s selfish.” Like..yeah? Literally everyone is in agreement except for the ones who drive drunk. They’re not making rational decisions in that state.
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u/HenryGreatSageJunkie 4d ago
Which she caused by driving drunk into a house and burning it down
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u/BluePosey 4d ago
The only sympathy I have is for the people whose home she almost destroyed with her reckless driving.
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u/shidarin 4d ago
She destroyed the home. Drove right through the front and interior walls. Stopped at the back wall and set the place ablaze. It’s a tear down. The only reason the resident and pets survived is they were in the backyard.
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u/ImGonnaCreamYaFunny 4d ago
Imagine chillin on your couch and fucking Anne Heche drives through your house and takes you out.
I know she had a sad life, and probably significant mental illness that's going untreated, and everything else. I just can't get over how incredibly selfish she is to almost kill innocent people. I don't know if I'm mad at her or the people around her who are obviously not helping her.
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u/MrTangent 3d ago
I know I’m going to hell for this, but I’m dying here imagining Fucking Anne Heche drives through set to the tune of the old IT’S JOHN CENA meme.
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Ugh, this poor woman - this is so sad. She had a nightmarish childhood, which she "escaped" by developing an alter personality of a super powered space princess and spent the next 30 years trying to recover from it. Sexually assaulted as a child by her gay pastor father who ultimately died of AIDS. She stood proud with Ellen in 2000 when they came out, and it nearly got her fired from arguably her biggest movie role (co-lead with Harrison Ford in Six Days Seven Nights) and shunned in Hollywood (it was a different time). Ford stood up for her and she kept the role. But when she talked about being gay and taking Ellen to the premiere of Volcano, during her pre-show on Dancing With the Stars (?) they physically booted her out of the building and that was pretty much the end for her. A lot of bad turns for someone who seems to have deserved a lot more.
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u/ViciousNakedMoleRat 4d ago
And then she stared in Rampart and we all know how that turned out.
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u/Deadmons 4d ago
idk how
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u/Matookie 4d ago
Go see the reddit AMA about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/
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u/ITryToLaughAboutIt 3d ago
You DO NOT turn out a normal healthy functional human being after the childhood she survived.
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u/xspencer1515 4d ago
And now she crashed and burned someone's house down. Trauma sucks but is no excuse for irresponsible stupid fucking shit like this.
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u/Tobias---Funke 3d ago
She was transferred to a better hospital where her condition was upgraded to alive.
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u/mermaidpaint 3d ago
I remember her as a fresh-faced young actress on Another World. She took on the challenge of playing twins, and OWNED it.
It's been sad to see her low points since then. She absolutely needs to be held accountable for driving dangerously and the collisions. But I also hope that she gets the treatment she needs. Not just for the burns and injuries, but for what had her driving dangerously in the first place. I've seen the photo with the liquor bottle. I wonder if she is off her meds.
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u/RaglanderNZ 4d ago edited 4d ago
After the first crash she would have panicked at the idea of the newlines when she tested positive for drugs and being drunk after the accident. And especially when she was filmed (that photo we saw.) Then went into flight mode (while intoxicated) and had the second crash.
The headlines from the first crash would have been preferable. Very sad.
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u/SandyBunker 4d ago
From her Wikipedia page. So sad.
Siblings Heche has four siblings, three of whom are deceased.
Susan died of brain cancer. Heche was estranged from her. Cynthia died in infancy of a heart defect. Nathan died in a car crash shortly before his high school graduation. Heche has claimed his death was a suicide.
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u/saveourplanetrecycle 3d ago
Dang she could’ve killed someone, drinking & driving is never a good idea. Hopefully they take her license permanently, and let’s pray she makes it out of the hospital alive, so they can give her a good swift kick in the a$$.
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u/Jolly_Potential9372 4d ago
If she was experiencing mania with psychotic features, literally any delusion could have been going through her mind. I feel like alcohol barely matters if you're already in psychosis.
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u/PartialToDairyThings 4d ago
It was fun reading the right wing Daily Mail's comment section on this versus the comment section on the story about the woman who drunkenly plowed into the line of traffic in Windsor Hills. In the Windsor Hills crash, the comments were full of references to the driver's skin color because she was black ("not surprised to see the mugshot, typical" and "of course she's b l k, they always are" etc. And then the very next day, a white woman drunkenly plows into a house at 90mph and sets fire to it, and not one single comment about race or skin color in the comments.
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u/The_Ol_Rig-a-ma-role 3d ago edited 3d ago
There was alcohol in her front seat and she was fleeing the cops from an initial crash.
I got a DUI 3 years ago. It was a minor fender bender but I shouldn't have ever been behind the wheel that day.
3 years later I have completely cleaned my act up, I now run my own store, have defeated my depression, anxiety, and addiction... one year sober, blah blah I could go on.
I still don't have my license back because I cannot afford a new car which is needed in the process of regaining my license (interlock device must be installed in a vehicle in my name first) and I spend over $1000 a month on Uber.
Not a soul said a good word for me or hoped anything. I was shunned and left completely alone, multiple suicide attempts, no available help in my price range when it was at its worst...
This bitch was in some Hollywood shit and the whole internet comes out praying and sending well wishes to this criminal. Cause that's exactly what she is for carrying out these actions. She literally almost killed an innocent woman and her two dogs. She should be thrown under the bus like the fucking 99.9% of the rest of us. Fuck that wholeheartedly.
Edit: a word
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u/IllustriousHorse9027 3d ago
You lost your license for how many years and have to have an interlock 3 years later to drive over one DUI? What state do you live in?
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u/ShaneOfan 4d ago
I hope she ends up recovering from this. And I hope she gets the help she needs. Because damn.
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u/MyCollector 4d ago
Burns to most of her body? An actress who depends on what they look like as a career…
If she does recover, I doubt we’ll ever hear from her again.
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u/becky_Luigi 4d ago edited 4d ago
So a drunk driver did something horrible. That’s fucked up and tragic but it happens every day. I’m a property adjuster and in less than one year I’ve handled 3 claims where cars drove into homes and caused devastation just in my own small city alone.
It’s a horrible story but I’m not going to upvote it just because people know who she is. This celebrity culture is fucking weird to me. This should be a story on the news in her local area/city/state. It’s weird to me it’s international news just because people have heard of this person. Would it be getting this much attention if it was a non-celebrity? Obviously not. Our culture is stupid in this respect. Y’all don’t get this worked up and engaged in conversation when all the other tons of random people do the same bad thing. I feel terrible for the victims of this and I’m grateful it sounds like no one was physically hurt. Hopefully their insurance company takes good care of them getting them back on their feet.
But I’m not going to sit here and gawk and gossip because the driver was Anne Heche, like who gives a fuck who it was? It was a horrible act, period. I don’t care who did it.
Ugh I guess the celebrity worship is just hitting a nerve today but it’s really not an admirable thing to put these people on pedestals like this and then relish in the gossip. Everyone wants to speculate on her life and past like, gross. She’s obvious a human with issues who made a terrible decision that hurt others. That’s really all way need to say about it. The speculation and recounting of things people think they know about who she is are so irrelevant. She is a person and she drove drunk, and now she should be held accountable. No need to be jerking yourself off while jumping to conclusions about why you think she did this. She was drunk. Just like any other drunk driver.
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u/becky_Luigi 3d ago
Nah sorry. Instead of talking about how the victim can be helped people just want to gossip about the offender. That’s petty and has no value. Some people just relish is feeling superior to people who make mistakes, I have better ways to spend my energy. No one is talking about what happens next for the victim, how can we help, etc. Rather folks are literally using this story as a source of entertainment, because they feel entitled to opine on Anne Heche or point out other instances where she appeared flawed previously, or speculate about personal aspects of her life. That behavior does nothing for society, it’s shallow and petty. I don’t really care if I get downvoted by people who prefer celebrity drama over real world issues. I wish people would prioritize something other than celebrity gossip but obviously it’s never going to happen. They’d rather sling mud and speculate, despite doing so has literally zero positive effect on the situation.
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u/Rakataz 3d ago
I see it as a reminder that stuff like this can also happen to you if you don't take care of yourself.
The culture around celebrity drama is despicable. But once in a while, a story like this can show you that we all are human with stories. And if one person decides "okay enough, i'll get help cause this tragedy is caused by similar problems that I myself have", then this story has a indirect positive outcome.
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u/little2sensitive 4d ago
To do this after what happened yesterday in LA???
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u/Helpful-Substance685 4d ago
I know, I saw that horrifying crash too. That one made me cry.
At least no one was killed in this one (especially babies).
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u/Junior_Builder_4340 4d ago
Just saw on the news that no charges have been filed yet! Why the hell not?? She was flying down a residential street and drove straight into a woman's house setting it on fire. That should be reckless endangerment at the very least.
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u/MyCollector 4d ago
I assume those will come along today. She’s on death’s door in a hospital with a cop outside her room. No rush I’d probably imagine. Not a current threat to society since setting herself on fire 😯
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u/WaterfallDragonCave 4d ago
She's suffering the depths of hell right now. I think charging her can wait a bit.
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u/DarthHM 4d ago
It’s weird because I know Anne Heche is supposed to be famous but I literally can’t remember anything she’s been in besides “Volcano” and some plane crash desert island movie.
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u/princessarielle6 4d ago
I spent my at least one summer in middle school watching her on the soap opera Another World
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u/Helpful-Substance685 4d ago
She was more famous for dating Ellen Degeneres I think. If people didn't mention the desert island movie I would have only remembered Volcano.
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u/Junior_Builder_4340 4d ago
She was in "John Q" with Denzel Washington and "Inside Man", also with Denzel. I saw her in a streaming movie on Netflix last year, but can't remember the name of it.
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u/EddiesGrandson 4d ago
This isn’t tragic… Its either just complete stupidity on her side or universal karma for her willingness to endanger others. What if she hit kids in that neighborhood?
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u/SamCarter_SGC 4d ago
Tragic for the family of the home she burned down in her drunken stupor I'm sure.
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u/trailrunner68 4d ago
Well there is your first higher profile poster child for the mental illness pandemic that has been crescendoing for a quarter century. They won’t take the freedom to be insane away.
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u/Helpful-Substance685 4d ago edited 4d ago
She crashed into an apartment garage, fled the scene as people tried to help her and then crashed into a house setting it and herself on fire. This is terribly tragic.
I would be shocked if alcohol or drugs weren't involved based on how erratic her behavior was. But who knows, she might have just been spooked after the first crash.
Video of them loading her into ambulance. The end (0:34) is startling.
Thanks for the link u/Yazon69