Actress Anne Heche remained in hospital on Saturday after her car crashed into a Los Angeles home Friday morning, causing a house fire, authorities said.
At about 11 a.m. Friday, Heche was behind the wheel of a car when it drove into a two-story home near Mar Vista and set off a “severe fire,” the LA Fire Department said.
Crews pulled Heche from the car and she was taken to a hospital in critical condition, the fire service said. No one else was injured. It is not clear if anyone was in the house at the time.
Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to CBS Los Angeles on Saturday that 53-year-old Heche was the driver of the car. CBS Los Angeles also confirmed that the car was in her name.
A representative for Heche told CBS News on Saturday that she was still in hospital, but did not provide further details.
“Anne is currently in stable condition,” the representative said in a statement. “Her family and friends ask for your thoughts and prayers. We also ask that you respect her privacy during this difficult time. Thank you.”
Meanwhile, 59 firefighters took just over an hour to extinguish the flames, the fire service said. The house was ‘severely damaged’.
Security video obtained by CBS Los Angeles from a nearby homeowner showed the car hurtling down a residential street just before the crash. The sound of the collision can be heard, but not seen on the video.
CBS Los Angeles also captured footage of crews pulling the mangled car from the driveway of the home.
It was not immediately known about a possible cause, or whether Heche could be charged.
Born in Ohio, Heche first rose to fame in the NBC soap opera “Another World” from 1987 to 1991. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role.
In the late 1990s, she became one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on the covers of magazines and in big-budget movies. She co-starred with Johnny Depp in 1997’s “Donnie Brasco”; with Tommy Lee Jones in 1997’s “Volcano”; with Harrison Ford in 1998’s “Six Days, Seven Nights”; starring Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix in 1998’s ‘Return to Paradise’ and with a cast in the original 1997’s ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’.
Her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to 2000 increased her fame and sparked huge public criticism.
In the fall of 2000, shortly after the two broke up, Heche was hospitalized after knocking on a stranger’s door in a rural area near Fresno, California. According to authorities, she appeared shocked and disoriented and spoke incoherently with the residents.
In a memoir released the following year, “Call Me Crazy,” Heche spoke of her lifelong struggle with mental health and a childhood of abuse.
She was married to cinematographer Coleman Laffoon from 2001 to 2009. The two had a son together. She had another son while dating actor James Tupper, her co-star on the TV series “Men In Trees.”
Heche has consistently worked in minor films, on Broadway and in TV shows for the past two decades. She recently had recurring roles on the network series “Chicago PD” and “All Rise”, and in 2020 she was a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars”.