Anne Heche died of inhalation and thermal accidents, based on Los Angeles County’s division of the medical examiner-coroner. Her demise was dominated an accident.
The official report lists sternal fracture as a consequence of blunt trauma as one other “important situation.” Her date of demise is listed as Aug. 11, in the future earlier than a rep defined that she’d been declared “mind useless” and 6 days after the Six Days Seven Nights actress crashed her automobile right into a home within the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. Blood check confirmed that she had narcotics in her system. She was 53.
The reason for demise surfaced simply as a neighbor’s 911 name was launched. Within the name, folks could be heard shouting within the background, as Heche’s blue Mini Cooper Heche erupted in flames.
“Any individual is opening the again to see if we are able to entry,” the caller mentioned, “as a result of they’re kinda trapped … contained in the automobile.”
Then somebody noticed the flames and yelled, “fireplace!” Paramedics have been in a position to take away Heche from the wreckage, however not earlier than she was severely burned.
The Emmy-winning actress, whose credit additionally embody the films Donnie Brasco and Wag the Canine, the TV reveals All Rise and Hung, and the play Twentieth Century, for which she acquired a Tony nomination, lapsed right into a coma shortly after she was pulled from the wreck. She remained on life help till her demise.
Her survivors embody two sons, 20-year-old Homer Laffoon, whose father is Heche’s ex-husband Coleman “Coley” Laffoon, and Atlas, 13, whose father is Heche’s Males in Bushes co-star James Tupper.