Actress Anne Heche was in the hospital Saturday after an accident in which her car crashed into a house and burst into flames, a spokesman said. “Anna is currently in a stable condition. Her family and friends ask for your thoughts and prayers and to respect her privacy during this difficult time,” said Heather Duffy Boylston, Heche’s friend and podcast contributor. Heche’s car reached a T-intersection and veered off the road and into a home in the Mar Vista section of West Los Angeles just before 11 a.m. Friday, Los Angeles Police Officer Tony Im said. The car came to rest inside the two-story home and started a fire that took nearly 60 firefighters more than an hour to extinguish, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Television news footage showed a blue Mini Cooper Clubman, badly damaged and burned, being towed outside the house, with a woman sitting on a stretcher and struggling as firefighters put her into an ambulance. No other injuries were reported, and no arrests have been made. Police detectives are investigating. Originally from Ohio, Hetze first appeared on the NBC soap opera Another world from 1987 to 1991. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role. In the late 1990s she became one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood, consistently on magazine covers and in big budget movies. He co-starred with Johnny Depp in 1997 Donnie Brasco; with Tommy Lee Jones in 1997 Volcano; with Harrison Ford in 1998 Six days, seven nights; with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix in 1998 Return to Paradiseand with an ensemble cast in the 1997 original I know what you did last summer. Her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to 2000 increased her fame and brought enormous public scrutiny. 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. Authorities said she appeared agitated and disoriented and spoke incoherently to residents. In a memoir published the following year, Call me CrazyHeche opened up about her lifelong struggles with mental health and her childhood of abuse. She was married to camera operator Coleman Laffoon from 2001 to 2009. The two had a son together. She had another son during a relationship with actor James Tapper, her co-star in the TV series Men in trees. Heche has worked steadily in smaller films, on Broadway and in television shows over the past two decades. He recently had recurring roles on the network series Chicago PD and All standingand in 2020 he was a contestant on dancing with the Stars. Better togetherthe podcast, hosted by Heche and Duffy Boylston, is described online as a celebration of friendship. Sign up for The Globe’s arts and lifestyle newsletters for more news, columns and advice in your inbox.
