Actress Anne Heche gets into wild crash in LA where she drove her blue Mini Cooper into a garage

Actress Anne Heche has been intubated in a critical condition after crashing her Mini into a garage before speeding off and smashing it into an apartment block where it exploded.

The 53-year-old suffered horrific burns during the collision and was recorded being dragged out of the mangled wreck by firefighters after it burst into flames in LA around 11am.

She writhed around on the stretcher before she was bundled into the back of an ambulance and rushed to a nearby intensive care unit.

Shocking images also show the burnt out wreckage of her Mini Clubman as it was towed out of a hedge across the road from a school in the Mar Vista area. 

An earlier shot also shows Heche moments before the second accident at the wheel with a bottle with a red cap plonked in the glove box with what appeared to be a vodka bottle.

The actress, who dated Ellen Degeneres before they split up, suffered severe burns and has been intubated but is expected to live following the horror crash.

Actress Anne Heche has been intubated in a critical condition after crashing her Mini into a garage before speeding off and smashing it into an apartment block where it exploded

An earlier shot also shows Heche moments before the second accident at the wheel with a bottle of vodka with a red cap plonked in the cup holder

The 53-year-old suffered horrific burns during the collision and was recorded being dragged out of the mangled wreck by firefighters after it burst into flames in LA around 11am

The 53-year-old suffered horrific burns during the collision and was recorded being dragged out of the mangled wreck by firefighters after it burst into flames in LA around 11am

Shocking images also show the burnt out wreckage of her Mini Clubman as it was towed out of a hedge across the road from a school in the Mar Vista area

Shocking images also show the burnt out wreckage of her Mini Clubman as it was towed out of a hedge across the road from a school in the Mar Vista area 

An interior shot shows the Mini Clubman's airbag had blown out along with most of the decor being burnt through following the crash

An interior shot shows the Mini Clubman’s airbag had blown out along with most of the decor being burnt through following the crash

Pictures and video showed her looking dazed at the wheel after the first crash, with a witness capturing her with a bottle with a red top on it in her car. It is not clear what was in the container but it looked like a vodka bottle

Pictures and video showed her looking dazed at the wheel after the first crash, with a witness capturing her with a bottle with a red top on it in her car. It is not clear what was in the container but it looked like a vodka bottle

The actress, who dated Ellen Degeneres before they split up, suffered severe burns and has been intubated but is expected to live following the horror crash

The actress, who dated Ellen Degeneres before they split up, suffered severe burns and has been intubated but is expected to live following the horror crash

Heche had been driving her blue Mini Clubman in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles when she careered into a garage of an apartment complex.

Locals rushed to help the stricken actress but she immediately slammed her car into reverse and sped off down the road.

Pictures and video showed her looking dazed at the wheel after the first crash, with a witness capturing her with a bottle with a red top on it in her car. It is not clear what was in the container.

She later quickly veered off the road again, smashed through a hedge and and rammed into a nearby home in the 1800 block of South Walgrove Avenue.

The horrific crash caused the car to explode into flames before Heche was dragged away by firefighters and raced to hospital in an ambulance.

Aerial footage showed her with brutal scarring across her back from the fire after her top appeared to have been shredded by the heat and she writhed across the stretcher in pain.

Firefighters were able to get the flames out within about an hour, according to Fox 11 but Heche suffered severe burns in the resulting blaze and is now in intensive care.

Jawdropping pictures from the scene showed the burnt out hull of the car as it was recovered from the hedge before being towed away by the authorities.

‘We really had a multifaceted incident here,’ LAFD Capt. Erik Scott said. ‘We had a significant traffic collision, we had entrapment of a woman inside that, we had car that erupted into fire, and then we had a home that had significant fire that is red tagged. It’s at this point destroyed.’

‘Her condition prevents doctors from performing any tests to determine if she was driving under the influence of alcohol,’ TMZ reported.

Jawdropping pictures from the scene showed the burnt out hull of the car as it was recovered from the hedge before being towed away by the authorities

 Jawdropping pictures from the scene showed the burnt out hull of the car as it was recovered from the hedge before being towed away by the authorities

Firefighters were able to get the flames out within about an hour, according to Fox 11 but Heche suffered severe burns in the resulting blaze and is now in intensive care

Firefighters were able to get the flames out within about an hour, according to Fox 11 but Heche suffered severe burns in the resulting blaze and is now in intensive care

Heche had been driving her blue Mini Clubman in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles when she careered into a garage of an apartment complex

Heche had been driving her blue Mini Clubman in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles when she careered into a garage of an apartment complex

Locals rushed to help the stricken actress but she immediately slammed her car into reverse and sped off down the road

Locals rushed to help the stricken actress but she immediately slammed her car into reverse and sped off down the road

The horrific crash caused the car to explode into flames before Heche was dragged away by firefighters and raced to hospital in an ambulance

The horrific crash caused the car to explode into flames before Heche was dragged away by firefighters and raced to hospital in an ambulance

Firefighters were able to get the flames out within about an hour, according to Fox 11 but Heche suffered severe burns in the resulting blaze and is now in intensive care

Firefighters were able to get the flames out within about an hour, according to Fox 11 but Heche suffered severe burns in the resulting blaze and is now in intensive care

'We really had a multifaceted incident here,' LAFD Capt. Erik Scott said. 'We had a significant traffic collision, we had entrapment of a woman inside that, we had car that erupted into fire, and then we had a home that had significant fire that is red tagged. It's at this point destroyed'

‘We really had a multifaceted incident here,’ LAFD Capt. Erik Scott said. ‘We had a significant traffic collision, we had entrapment of a woman inside that, we had car that erupted into fire, and then we had a home that had significant fire that is red tagged. It’s at this point destroyed’

'Her condition prevents doctors from performing any tests to determine if she was driving under the influence of alcohol,' TMZ reported

‘Her condition prevents doctors from performing any tests to determine if she was driving under the influence of alcohol,’ TMZ reported

Officers and firefighters are pictured on the scene following the horrific crash in Los Angeles on Friday morning

Officers and firefighters are pictured on the scene following the horrific crash in Los Angeles on Friday morning

Heche, a native of Aurora, Ohio , most recently starred in the action pic 13 Minutes,'in which she starred alongside Thora Birch, Amy Smart and Will Peltz

Heche, a native of Aurora, Ohio , most recently starred in the action pic 13 Minutes,’in which she starred alongside Thora Birch, Amy Smart and Will Peltz

She went through a very public divorce in January 2018 from her ex-husband James Tupper. The couple were together for 10 years and share a son, Atlas, 13

She went through a very public divorce in January 2018 from her ex-husband James Tupper. The couple were together for 10 years and share a son, Atlas, 13

Actress who dated Ellen DeGeneres in the 90s starred in Donnie Brasco, Volcano and I Know What You Did Last Summer before horror crash 

Actress Anne Heche came mainstream prominence in the late 1990s with roles in the crime drama film Donnie Brasco (1997), the disaster film Volcano (1997), the slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the action comedy film Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), and the drama-thriller film Return to Paradise (1998).

She landed on gossip pages for her romantic relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. The couple dated from 1997-2000.

Heche’s relationship with Ellen DeGeneres and the events following their breakup became subjects of widespread media interest. 

Following their breakup, she was found incoherent and babbling in the California desert. 

She stumbled into a stranger’s home before being carted off to a hospital – hours after breaking up with the comedian. 

Heche has stated that all of her other romantic relationships have been with men. 

After reportedly leaving DeGeneres for Coleman “Coley” Laffoon in 2000, on September 1, 2001, Heche married Laffoon, a cameraman whom she met the previous year on DeGeneres’ stand-up comedy tour. They share a son.

Laffoon filed for divorce in February 2007, after five years of marriage. The divorce was finalized  in 2009.

Heche reportedly left her husband for Men in Trees co-star James Tupper and in December 2008 she became  pregnant with their first child.

Tupper and Heche separated in 2018.

Heche has also previously been open about her battles with substance abuse.

‘I drank. I smoked. I did drugs. I had sex with people. I did anything I could to get the shame out of my life,’ she told ABC News in a September 2001 interview.

She said her choices were because of a painful  childhood in which she was sexually abused by her father, Donald Heche.

‘I’m not crazy, but it’s a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.’

Heche’s first starring role came in the 1998 romantic adventure Six Days, Seven Nights, where she appeared opposite Harrison Ford, portraying a New York City journalist ending up with a pilot, played by Ford in a deserted island following a crash landing. 

Six Days, Seven Nights received mixed reviews 

She was cast in the film one day before her same-sex relationship with Ellen DeGeneres went public.

Although Heche was cast in a second starring role shortly thereafter as Vince Vaughn’s love interest in the 1998 drama Return to Paradise, she felt that her relationship with DeGeneres destroyed her prospects as a leading woman.

Her 1998 films remain the only theatrically released films in which she played a leading role.

Heche was chosen by People as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in that year. 

Most of her roles in the early 2000s and 2010s were in independent films and television dramas. She also took on a role on Broadway in a play.

Heche, a native of Aurora, Ohio, most recently starred in the action pic 13 Minutes,’in which she starred alongside Thora Birch, Amy Smart and Will Peltz.

She went through a very public divorce in January 2018 from her ex-husband James Tupper. The couple were together for 10 years and share a son, Atlas, 13. 

She was well known for her romance with Ellen DeGeneres in the 1990s.

She brought the talk show host to the premiere of her movie Volcano in 1997. She claimed the act saw her being ‘blacklisted’ from Hollywood. 

‘I didn’t do a studio picture for 10 years,’ she told Page Six. ‘I was fired from a $10 million picture deal and did not see the light of day in a studio picture.’ 

Following her and Ellen’s breakup, she was found incoherent and babbling in the California desert. 

She stumbled into a stranger’s home before being carted off to a hospital – hours after breaking up with the comedian. 

‘I was told to go to a place where I would meet a spaceship. I was told in order to get on the spaceship that I would have to take a hit of ecstasy,’ Heche explained. 

‘Fresno was the culmination of a journey and a world that I thought I needed to escape to in order to find love.’ 

Shortly after the couple dated, the director tied the knot to Coley Laffoon, while the talk show presenter started a relationship with her now-wife Portia de Rossi. 

Heche’s divorce from the cameraman was finalised in 2009, two years after they initially ended their romance. 

The blonde later started dating Men In Trees co-star James Tupper in 2007, before they split in 2018.  

Heche has also previously been open about her battles with substance abuse.

‘I drank. I smoked. I did drugs. I had sex with people. I did anything I could to get the shame out of my life,’ she told ABC News in 2001.

She said her choices were because of a painful childhood in which she was sexually abused by her father, Donald Heche.

‘I’m not crazy, but it’s a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.

‘I had a fantasy world that I escaped to. I called my other personality Celestia. I believed I was from that world. I believed I was from another planet. I think I was insane.’ 

‘He raped me, he stuck his d**k in my mouth, he fondled me, he put me on all fours, and had sex with me,’ Heche said of the abuse by her father. 

‘I think it’s always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn’t carry around a tape recorder … I didn’t chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, ‘Well how do you know for sure?’ And that’s one of the most painful things about it. You don’t,’ Heche said in the 2001 interview. 

Heche also revealed that she had herpes as a young girl, but did not know if her mother knew she was being molested by her father. 

‘I had a rash, I had sores, I had welts on my nose and on my lips.’ 

Heche said she does not describe herself as straight, gay or bisexual. ‘I would never limit myself to saying I would be with a man or a woman,’ she said.

 

 

There was plenty of emergency services in attendance in the aftermath of the crash

There was plenty of emergency services in attendance in the aftermath of the crash

Heche could be seen, arms flailing, as she was placed into the back of an ambulance

Heche could be seen, arms flailing, as she was placed into the back of an ambulance

Heche's vehicle crashed into a home setting it ablaze

Heche’s vehicle crashed into a home setting it ablaze 

Fire crews were on scene as they attempted to put out the flames which took about an hour

Fire crews were on scene as they attempted to put out the flames which took about an hour

Smoke could be seen coming from the home into which Heche has crashed ino

Smoke could be seen coming from the home into which Heche has crashed ino

EMTs quickly ushered Heche into the back of an ambulance

EMTs quickly ushered Heche into the back of an ambulance 

The home into which Heche crashed into suffered significant fire damage with much of its roof destroyed

The home into which Heche crashed into suffered significant fire damage with much of its roof destroyed

Horrified witnesses watch on as the car is towed out of the garden following the horrendous crash on Friday morning in LA

Horrified witnesses watch on as the car is towed out of the garden following the horrendous crash on Friday morning in LA

One clasps her hands to her mouth as she watches the carnage unfold in front of her following the explosion near a school

One clasps her hands to her mouth as she watches the carnage unfold in front of her following the explosion near a school

The apartment complex with adjoining garage is pictured following the crash on Friday morning in Los Angeles

The apartment complex with adjoining garage is pictured following the crash on Friday morning in Los Angeles

The interior of the home which was struck appeared to be an almighty mess following the blaze

The interior of the home which was struck appeared to be an almighty mess following the blaze 

A warning sign tells people not to venture inside the home which was badly damaged by fire on Friday morning

A warning sign tells people not to venture inside the home which was badly damaged by fire on Friday morning

Firefighters are seen outside the home after the flames were put out

Firefighters are seen outside the home after the flames were put out 

Heche, 53, is now said to be in critical condition in hospital where she is intubated

Heche, 53, is now said to be in critical condition in hospital where she is intubated

Heche noted how her relationship with DeGeneres 'wasn’t a long-term love affair;' the two were snapped in 2000

Degeneres and Heche, seen at the 1998 Golden Globe Awards in LA, dated from 1997-2000

Heche noted how her relationship with DeGeneres ‘wasn’t a long-term love affair;’ the two were snapped in 2000

The ex files: Heche tied the knot to cameraman Coley Laffoon a year after breaking up from Ellen, but their divorce was finalized in 2009 (pictured in 2004)

The ex files: Heche tied the knot to cameraman Coley Laffoon a year after breaking up from Ellen, but their divorce was finalized in 2009 (pictured in 2004)

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