Anne Heche Useless at 53

Anne Heche, identified for motion pictures like “Six Days, Seven Nights” and HBO sequence “Hung,” died at age 53 on Aug. 11 following a automotive crash in Los Angeles lower than every week earlier. “At the moment we misplaced a brilliant mild, a sort and most joyful soul, a loving mom, and a loyal good friend,” a rep mentioned in a press release to Individuals on behalf of her household and pals. “Anne might be deeply missed however she lives on via her lovely sons, her iconic physique of labor, and her passionate advocacy. Her bravery for at all times standing in her fact, spreading her message of affection and acceptance, will proceed to have a long-lasting impression.”

Heche suffered a extreme anoxic mind harm within the accident, as beforehand reported by Individuals, and was in a coma main as much as her demise. On Aug. 11, Heche’s rep mentioned that the actor was not anticipated to outlive and was being saved on life assist to find out her eligibility for organ donation.

Heche crashed her automotive right into a residential house in Los Angeles’s Mar Vista neighborhood on Aug. 5. Her automotive caught hearth, the LAPD confirmed in a press launch. On Dec. 7, the Los Angeles County coroner’s workplace revealed Heche died of “inhalation and thermal accidents,” per The Hollywood Reporter. The report additionally listed “sternal fracture attributable to blunt trauma” as a “vital situation” in her demise, which was listed as unintended.

The actor had been outspoken about her private struggles and launched a memoir in 2001 titled “Name Me Loopy,” getting candid a couple of tumultuous childhood stuffed with abuse that created long-lasting psychological trauma. Whereas selling the ebook, Heche mentioned throughout a “Larry King Dwell” look that she wished to inform her psychological well being story “and get to a spot the place I might transfer on from the darkness in my life and discover mild and pleasure and peace and stability within the now.”

Heche started her profession on the cleaning soap “One other World,” later occurring to look in initiatives like 1997’s “I Know What You Did Final Summer season” and “Wag the Canine.” She led sequence “Males in Timber” and appeared alongside Thomas Jane in “Hung.” Heche competed on “Dancing With the Stars” in 2020 and has a job in upcoming Sam Levinson HBO drama “The Idol.”

The actor, who was famously in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to 2000, was married to Coleman Laffoon, a cameraman, from 2001 to 2007, and the pair share a son. She dated “Males in Timber” costar James Tupper till 2018; they share a son as nicely.