The Los Angeles County Department of Forensic Medicine (United States) confirmed on Wednesday that the death of actress Anne Heche was due to injuries sustained after the traffic accident in which she was involved on August 5.
A sternum fracture after severe trauma, as well as multiple head injuriesburns and inhalation of a large amount of smoke are among the causes of his death, according to the published report, reproduced by the EFE agency.
Anne Heche was declared brain dead on the night of August 11.
However, her heart continued to beat for two more days, which made it possible to complete the task of finding compatible people to donate the organs of the American interpreter, who was withdrawn from life support last Sunday.
The actress was admitted to the West Hills hospital in Los Angeles on Friday, August 5, when her blue Mini Cooper crashed into a house in the Mar Vista area (west county) and the vehicle ended up engulfed in flames.
According to police, the vehicle He was going so fast that he left the road and burned when he hit the buildingcausing serious burns to Heche.
Before the incident, multiple security cameras recorded her driving recklessly through a residential area.
In fact, she was involved in two accidents, crashing first into a car and then into a garage from which she fled while a neighbor yelled at her, according to a video posted on the Internet.
The Los Angeles Police Office of Public Information confirmed last week to the media that blood tests revealed the presence of drugs.
Anne Heche rose to fame in the late 1980s with her portrayal of Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the soap opera “Another World,” for which she won an Emmy.
He then starred in several independent films, some with great popular success such as “Psycho” (1998), “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997) and “Six Days, Seven Nights” (1998).
On stage, she was nominated for a Tony for the Broadway play “Twentieth Century” and also competed in the program “Dancing With The Stars”, one of the most popular formats on American television.
On her professional horizon, the premiere of the film “Girl in Room 13” was pending, in which she played the mother of a daughter kidnapped by a women’s trafficking network. The Lifetime television channel confirmed that it will broadcast the film.
For years, Heche discussed her mental health struggles, which she distilled into a book, “Call Me Crazy,” published in 2003, after she entered a rehab center.
With information from EFE
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