Actress Anne Heche was left severely burned after her car was engulfed in flames following a single-car crash in Los Angeles Friday.
Heche, 53, was driving her Mini Cooper through a Mar Vista apartment complex around noon when she crashed into a garage.
Bystanders tried to get Heche out of the vehicle, but she backed up, drove off and drove into a home, igniting a serious fire.
Heche was finally pulled form the wreckage by first responders wearing charred clothes and trying to wiggle out of her gurney.
She was hooked up to breathing machines and in critical condition at a hospital, but was expected to live.
Police said Heche was driving at a high speed that caused her Mini Cooper to be lodged 30 feet inside the house. There was someone inside the house, but luckily they were in another area, escaping any injuries.
Home security footage had shown Heche’s blue car recklessly speeding through a suburban-style community before the crash.
The mangled vehicle was barely recognizable afterward, footage of the burnt-out debris-strewn car being towed from the accident scene.
Heche’s grave condition prevented officials from testing her for alcohol. The actress has spoken publicly about her troubles with substance abuse.
“I drank. I smoked. I did drugs. I had sex with people. I did anything I could to get the shame out of my life,” Heche said in a 2020 interview.
The actress, who dated Ellen DeGeneres in the 90s before marrying cameraman Coleman Laffoon and dating actor James Tupper, said she turned to booze and drugs to deal with the trauma of being sexually abused by her father, Donald Heche.
Donald was an evangelical Christian who died of AIDS in 1983, which he contracted while living a secret gay lifestyle.
Her brother Nate Heche, who was also sexually abused by their father, died in a high-speed car crash that the actress believed was a suicide three months later, according to a 2018 report.
Heche lost two other siblings; her oldest sister Susan died of brain cancer in 2006 and another sister Cynthia died in infancy. She has one surviving sister, Abigail, and was estranged from her mother for decades.
Heche has two children of her own, one with Laffoon and one with Tupper.
To bad they didn’t have or use copper P concentrate (By ISOMERS plumping of the skin is it’s call to beauty aids) to heal the burns that were not open. I attest It applied constantly after a burn can erase up to the borderline 3rd degree burns within min to hours. Small grease burns and steam burns skip the blistering and pain. An ignored but amazing quick healing. I healed a guy with a radiator burn all over his chest and back! One evening with applying it to his reddened burnt skin. He went to work the next day nearly unscathed. One tiny spot I missed was an open peeled back blister on his lower neck. The rest never blistered. Including saving his nipple. Last but not least to quit frying him.