The actress Anne Heche remained in a coma and was not anticipated to outlive the accidents she sustained in a automobile crash final week, based on an announcement that her publicist launched Thursday night time on behalf of her household and pals.
Ms. Heche, 53, was critically injured on Aug. 5 when the Mini Cooper she was in crashed into a house within the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, the authorities stated. She suffered a extreme anoxic mind harm and was being handled on the Grossman Burn Heart at West Hills Hospital, the household assertion stated.
“It has lengthy been her option to donate her organs and he or she is being saved on life help to find out if any are viable,” the assertion stated.
The crash began a fireplace that took 59 firefighters greater than an hour to extinguish, the Los Angeles Fireplace Division stated. Ms. Heche was the one particular person within the automobile, the authorities stated.
On Monday, a special consultant, Michael A. McConnell, informed Reuters that Ms. Heche had not regained consciousness since shortly after the accident.
In 1991, Ms. Heche gained a Daytime Emmy award for excellent youthful actress in a drama collection, for taking part in good and evil twins on the NBC cleaning soap opera “One other World.”
She starred in a number of well-liked Hollywood movies within the late Nineties, together with “Donnie Brasco,” “Wag the Canine” and “Six Days Seven Nights.” She continued to have tv roles, together with on “Males in Bushes” in 2006 and “Hung” in 2009, and carried out on Broadway, starring in “Proof” in 2002 and “Twentieth Century” in 2004.
Mike Ives contributed reporting from Seoul.