Anne Heche died of inhalation and thermal accidents, in accordance with Los Angeles County’s division of the medical examiner-coroner. Her dying was dominated an accident.
The official report lists sternal fracture as a consequence of blunt trauma as one other “vital situation.” Her date of dying is listed as Aug. 11, at some point earlier than a rep defined that she’d been declared “mind lifeless” and 6 days after the Six Days Seven Nights actress crashed her automotive 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 dying surfaced simply as a neighbor’s 911 name was launched. Within the name, folks might be heard shouting within the background, as Heche’s blue Mini Cooper Heche erupted in flames.
“Anyone 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 automotive.”
Then somebody noticed the flames and yelled, “fireplace!” Paramedics had 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 flicks Donnie Brasco and Wag the Canine, the TV exhibits All Rise and Hung, and the play Twentieth Century, for which she obtained a Tony nomination, lapsed right into a coma shortly after she was pulled from the wreck. She remained on life assist till her dying.
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 Timber co-star James Tupper.
