Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register LOS ANGELES, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Hollywood actress Anne Heche remained in hospital in critical condition, in a coma and on a ventilator on Monday, four days after being seriously injured in a fiery car crash in Los Angeles, a spokesman for her said. performer. Hetse, 53, is hospitalized shortly after the compact car she was driving went out of control in a Westside neighborhood of Los Angeles late Friday morning, plowed into a house and burst into flames, police said. No one inside the home was injured, but the impact set the residence ablaze, requiring dozens of firefighters to respond. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register A Los Angeles police spokesman said Monday that the cause and circumstances of the crash remain under investigation. Heche has been in a coma and has not regained consciousness since the accident, said Michael McConnell, a member of the Los Angeles talent agency that represents her, Zero Gravity Management. “Right now, he is in extremely critical condition,” he said in a message to Reuters, adding that Heche “has a significant lung injury that requires mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgery.” The Los Angeles Times quoted a Venice Beach salon owner, Richard Glass, as recounting a visit by Heche to his shop shortly before the accident, describing her as “a sweet little girl” as she bought a red wig on Friday morning. Heche became known for her Emmy-winning work on the daytime television drama “Another World” and went on to star in other screen roles, including the HBO series “Hung” and such films as “Wag the Dog” and “Cedar Rapids “. He made tabloid headlines in the late 1990s for an affair with comedian Ellen DeGeneres around the time DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian. After their separation, Heche married cameraman Coleman Laffoon, but they later divorced, after which she spent some years in a relationship with actor James Tupper, her co-star on the short-lived TV show Men in Trees. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Steve Gorman. Edited by Stephen Coates Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.