The Los Angeles police have obtained an order from the judicial authorities to be able to carry out a blood test on actress Anne Heche (Ohio, 53 years old) and thus clarify whether she was driving under the influence when she had a serious accident last Friday, August 5. of some substance, whether alcohol or drugs, a police spokesman has confirmed to
People
.
At the moment, and according to the same magazine, the investigation is ongoing and no evidence has been confirmed that the interpreter was intoxicated at the time of the accident.
The protagonist of the film
Six days and seven nights,
in which she shared the leading role with Harrison Ford, crashed with a blue Mini Cooper that was driving at high speed against a house in the Californian city and the crash caused a fire in the house while she She was trapped for long minutes in the vehicle.
“Since she is in the hospital and she is a public figure, I imagine they will take her time.
They're not going to be in a hurry to arrest her," legal analyst and former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Emily D. Baker
told
People .
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Actress Anne Heche, hospitalized with burns after crashing her car into a house
At the moment, Heche remains in a coma, with assisted breathing and in critical condition.
"She has a significant lung injury that requires mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention," explains the statement that the representative of the actress made public this Monday.
"She is in a coma and she has not regained consciousness since shortly after the accident," she added.
The accident took place on Walgrowe Avenue in the Mar Vista neighborhood, near the Santa Monica airport.
The Los Angeles Fire Department reported last Friday that they had rescued an adult woman in "critical condition" from a car that had crashed into a house in this residential area.
“A vehicle with a single passenger has crashed into a 738-square-foot [69-square-meter] two-story home built in 1952, causing structural damage and a massive fire prior to the arrival of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Los Angeles (LAFD)," the body explained in a statement.
In the rescue, which took more than an hour, 59 firefighters had to intervene.
The state of the house where actress Anne Heche crashed her car last Friday, August 5, 2022 in Los Angeles.
Carolyn Cole (Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
According to the testimonies collected by the specialized celebrity medium
TMZ
from several witnesses who witnessed the accident, Anne Heche crashed for the first time into the garage of an apartment complex and after continuing the march came the second and fatal crash.
This same means of communication would be the first to identify the driver as the interpreter of
Donnie Brasco
and would post pictures of the actress inside the car.
In addition, she released a video in which several neighbors were seen asking the artist to get out of the car after that first accident, but the interpreter ignored that request, she backed up and accelerated sharply.
Later, the CBS chain broadcast other images taken with a video surveillance camera in which Heche's vehicle is seen circulating at full speed before the accident.
"We asked her to raise her hand as a sign if she was okay and she told us that she couldn't,"
Lynne Bernstein, one of the neighbors of the house that Heche crashed into and who went to the scene of the incident nothing , explained to
People
. more the accident occurs.
According to Bernstein, the vehicle went through "almost all" of the house and caught fire "almost immediately."
For their part, John and Jennifer Durand, the owners of the house destroyed by the flames, have launched a
crowdfunding
campaign through the GoFundMe platform to help Mishele, the tenant who currently lived in the property, to cover the repair costs. and most of their belongings, as they have explained to
People
.
Before the accident, Anne Heche was involved in various projects in recent months.
In June she finished filming the film
Girl in Room 13
, which will be released this fall, and she recently starred in the
psychological
thriller
The Vanished .
for Netflix, directed by Peter Facinelli.
In addition to her career as an actress, Heche became very famous for her relationship with presenter Ellen DeGeneres, between 1997 and 2000, for which she received great media attention.
At the moment, the presenter has not made any public comment on the situation of her ex-partner.
Yes, the actor James Tupper, with whom Heche had a decade-long relationship until they broke up in 2018, has spoken. "Thoughts and prayers for this lovely woman, actress and mother tonight," he wrote on his Instagram account along with a photograph de Heche with one of her children.
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