Anne Heche Intubated After Car Crash Where She Was Severely

[angeli]

Aug 7, 2022 20:49:17 GMT waterslide said:

The thing is, she held it together enough to bring liquor in the car and she actually backed up pretty well in the getaway video and she's driving in a completely straight, unwavering line the whole way. I mean, maybe she thought she was going to drive her car into a tree and end it, but there are millions of other trees in other parts of California that she could have driven into and not even hurt the tree, much less destroy someone's home and possibly kill other people. I have no idea what was going through her mind, but it seems to me that if suicide was the plan, she might have thought she was going to die and was going to take anyone in her way with her.  I mean, that is hugely speculative, but I'm just going through possibilities in my head.  She may just have simply been in a fugue state and won't remember any of it.  



I've seen the Ring camera video and also watched some of the helicopter footage as they were trying to pull her car out of the house and then get Heche into the ambulance. Several people commented that the shrieking sound of Heche's car on the Ring video sounded like her emergency brake was on. If that's the case, she may have had mechanical problems that led to her car going through the intersection, over the curb, through a wall of bushes and deep into the house. She recorded a podcast with her partner ("Better Together with Anne and Heather") where they were drinking vodka and then wine (I think) that may have been filmed the same morning. So she could have been drunk. The helicopter pilot said it took 59 firefighters more than an hour to extricate "the driver." He didn't know that the driver was a female at the time nor did they know who she was. He commented that the firefighters were referring to "the patient" and not "the victim," which indicated that the driver of that car was still alive, although he didn't see how that was possible. They extricated Heche and almost got her into the ambulance when she abruptly sat up as though she was gasping for breath. Then they hustled her into the ambulance. She's apparently been in a coma ever since.


This is one of those situations where you don't know whether to hope she pulls through. Her lungs were apparently damaged in the fire and she has serious burns, so she could be hospitalized for months in great pain. She's obviously a fighter if she's survived all her family trauma, but burns are the worst kind of pain.

Woman Who Lost House in Anne Heche Car Crash Is 'Extremely Fortunate' to Be Alive, Neighbor Says

"A kind and generous person, Lynne is always first to offer help to others," neighbors wrote in a GoFundMe for Lynne Mishele, the woman who lost her home in Anne Heche's recent car crash

By Glenn Garner and Marissa Charles Published on August 7, 2022 04:15 PM


Woman Whose House Was Destroyed in Anne Heche Car Crash 'Extremely Fortunate' to Be Alive. www.gofundme.com/f/help-lynne-mishele-after-devastating-fire-loss?utm_campaign=p_nacp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer. Lynne Mishele

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The woman whose house was destroyed in Anne Heche's recent car crash is rebuilding her life with some help from her community.

Lynne Mishele's neighbor, Lynne Bernstein, tells PEOPLE the tenant "was extremely fortunate" to survive the accident with no injuries, after the Emmy Award winner, 53, crashed her car into the Los Angeles residence on Friday, causing it to catch fire.

"So were the dogs and her turtle," Bernstein adds of Mishele's pets. The woman was in another section of her small home when the incident occurred.

Anne Heche Was 'Trapped' in 'Intense' Smoke from Car Crash as Neighbors Attempted to Rescue Her

Bernstein adds that Mishele "was in shock" before she even noticed the vehicle, as she saw him and two other neighbors inside her house trying to help everyone get out safely. "I don't think she got what was going on. She said, 'What happened? What happened?' " he recalls.

According to Bernstein, Heche's vehicle drove "almost all the way through" the house and "almost immediately" caught fire. The Los Angeles Fire Department told PEOPLE that the accident caused "structural compromise" and "heavy fire" to the one-story home.



Anne Heche photos from the accident scene are taken by our own Marissa Charles

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Heche has since been hospitalized and intubated after suffering burns, and her rep told PEOPLE on Saturday that she is "currently in stable condition."

Fellow neighbors John and Jennifer Durand have since launched a GoFundMe to help Mishele cover the loss of "the place she loves" and most of her belongings.

"Lynne lives with her beautiful pups Bree and Rueban, and tortoise Marley in the Mar Vista home that was destroyed this week by a car driving into the home at a high rate of speed, catching the house on fire," the Durands wrote with the campaign. "Lynne and her family very narrowly escaped physical harm, and for that we are very, very grateful."

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They noted that the Los Angeles Fire Department "immediately red-tagged" the house and Mishele lost an "entire lifetime of possessions, mementos, all equipment for her business including her laptop and iPad, all of her clothing and basic necessities, and all household items."

"With firefighters' help, she was able to pull a few damaged sentimental belongings from the wreckage. Everything else is gone," they added.

The Durands urged supporters to donate to the campaign and patronize her home organization business Creative Organization on Instagram and TikTok.



BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 12: Anne Heche attends the 74th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards at The Beverly Hilton on March 12, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

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"A kind and generous person, Lynne is always first to offer help to others," they wrote. "Today we are asking the community to come together and help Lynne start over."

Heche was inside a blue Mini Cooper that crashed into Mishele's home Friday morning on South Walgrove Ave. in the neighborhood of Mar Vista, causing the residence to catch fire.

LAFD responded to the call at around 10:56 a.m. It took 59 firefighters around 65 minutes to extinguish the flame and extract Heche from the driver's seat, according to a release.

Witnesses told TMZ that Heche first crashed into a garage of an apartment complex before she reversed and sped off, colliding with the nearby home shortly after.

Driving on Preston Way, Heche reportedly ran a stop sign at the Walgrove intersection and drove through some large privacy bushes before the car came to a stop inside the house, according to KTLA.

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[angeli]

Aug 9, 2022 4:03:33 GMT chaz said:

So weird when she sits up. Could be due to pain. And topless? So sad all around. Filming from above seems a bit intrusive.

She wasn't topless. She was wearing a coral colored tank top. You can see it in the photo where she sits up by the ambulance (if you look closely). The top appears to be smoke-stained, but intact, at least from the back.

[charmedhour]

Aug 9, 2022 4:03:33 GMT chaz said:

So weird when she sits up. Could be due to pain. And topless? So sad all around. Filming from above seems a bit intrusive.

Generally speaking, people who have suffered severe burns don’t feel pain immediately, especially if they’re 3rd degree. Skin and nerves are burned so those pain receptors aren’t firing.

[waterslide]

A ‘coherent’ Anne Heche posed for a smiling photo just 21 minutes before crash
By Lee Brown
August 9, 2022 2:31pm Updated

A “coherent” Anne Heche didn’t appear to be inebriated as she posed for a smiling photo during a shopping trip just 21 minutes before the high-speed crash that left her in a coma, the owner of the store told The Post.

The actress posed with salon owner Richard Glass, 51, while buying a $125 red-haired wig and supplies from him during a visit to his salon in Los Angeles’ hotspot Venice.

The pic was timestamped 10:35 a.m., Glass told The Post — meaning she left around 20 minutes before Heche’s car slammed into a house in nearby Mar Vista at 10:56 a.m.

“I posted the image and not even an hour later it started blowing up,” Glass told The Post Tuesday of the post he originally assumed would be nothing more than marking a “so random” visit from a Hollywood celeb.

“I didn’t expect — or suspect — anything at all,” he said of the star, who police have confirmed is being investigated for possible hit and run and DUI for her wild, near-fatal high-speed drive after leaving his salon.



Richard Glass with Anne Heche.

Venice salon owner Richard Glass told The Post he took this photo at 10:35 a.m. Friday, just 21 minutes before Heche crashed.

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“She was polite, cordial and engaging — and she was coherent,” insisted Glass. “It was extremely pleasant — she was a delight,” he said.

Asked if he spotted any signs of her being drunk or on drugs, he insisted firmly: “Not at all.”

Glass — who has owned his studio, Glass Hair, for 21 years — said it was the first time Heche had ever visited.

“She came through the rear entrance of my studio while I was working on a client and said that she wanted a red wig,” he recalled.

The one she liked “hadn’t been cut or styled,” and he told her if she came back later he would have it washed and conditioned and fully prepared, he said.

“She said, ‘No worries, I’ll just take it now,'” he recalled, saying she bought special shampoo and conditioner for it, too, without saying why she wanted it.

“She asked, ‘Haven’t we worked together before?’ and told me I was beautiful,” he recalled warmly. “The whole encounter was less than 10 minutes.”

He was shocked when he later found out what happened to his celeb shopper, saying all he could think when he heard about her crash was “what in the world?”

Later, he noticed the red wig he sold in Heche’s car in a photo first posted by TMZ, which also said there appeared to be a bottle of booze.

While Glass insisted Heche seemed calm and coherent, the long-troubled actress was allegedly caught in a series of wild incidents in the moments after leaving Glass Hair and crashing into a house.

Police confirmed to The Post Monday that she is being investigated for hitting another car and then driving off. She was also filmed speeding away from someone telling her to get out of her car when she hit a garage door — as well as almost hitting a pedestrian.

Doorbell cameras then caught the sound of her roaring through quiet residential streets — before slamming into the house, sparking a blaze that 59 firefighters took more than an hour to tackle.

She’d only recently posted a since-deleted podcast, too, in which she admitted downing vodka and wine after being “rocked” by a “very bad day.” Her rep insisted to TMZ, however, that it had been recorded days before the crash.

As of Monday, Heche remained in a coma, her rep told Page Six. “She has a significant pulmonary injury requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention,” the rep said.

By Tuesday, an online fundraiser has also raised more than $100,000 for Lynne Mishele, the woman whose home was destroyed in the smash.

“Ms. Mishele is devastated by what happened to her on Friday — not only because she and her pets almost lost their lives, but because all of her property, including items of profound sentimental value, were destroyed,” her attorney, Shawn Holley, told The Post.
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This is random. She went in the rear entrance of a store to buy a wig and didn't seem inebriated? OK.

trixie the GoFundMe is at $100,000 now.

[Sarzy]

^ That makes me think of Britney and her pink wig.

[waterslide]

Sarzy it made me think of that, too. Like did she just have a break or is she such a good alcoholic that she was able to hide her drunkenness or all of the above.

I just realized at the bottom of the article I posted that Lynne Mishele's attorney is Shawn Holley of Lindsey Lohan attorney fame.

[MsDark]

Could be either. But even if she was drunk, I'm going with good old-fashioned "crazy" as being the primary cause of the erratic behavior culminating in the crash.

[kittylady]

Aug 9, 2022 4:03:33 GMT chaz said:

So weird when she sits up. Could be due to pain. And topless? So sad all around. Filming from above seems a bit intrusive.

It could be adrenaline. I knew a guy who was in a motorbike accident and looked to be a walking wounded - got himself in the ambulance, chatted away to the paramedics and then suddenly collapsed just as they got to the hospital with a massive internal bleed. He sadly didn't make it.

[trixie]

Aug 9, 2022 21:01:51 GMT waterslide said:

This is random. She went in the rear entrance of a store to buy a wig and didn't seem inebriated? OK.

trixie the GoFundMe is at $100,000 now.

Yeah, I looked at it yesterday and it was 97k I think. Since her claim is only for her personal property, that's a pretty good haul. Plus probably up to 100k from Anne's insurance. 

The concept in tort law is to make someone whole, not make them benefit above and beyond. There's some definite wiggle room if it's a bodily injury claim, but property damage is only worth what it's worth. Don't get me wrong, this woman may have lost all of her posessions and that's awful but she wasn't injured, her pets weren't injured and does she deserve $100k gift for that? If there was no inurance coverage I might say yes, but if she has a way to recoup her losses, then no.

[czb]

in southern CA, 100k will likely not pay for much of the damage to her home, even if it is a modest one. i'm curious about AH's insurance policy and how much damage it will cover.

[trixie]

^ Me too. But I was going on the assumption that she's a renter and doesn't own the house, so her only claim would be for personal property and maybe a period of additional living expenses in a hotel or short term rental while she looks for a new place to live.

[angeli]

Aug 9, 2022 21:33:53 GMT Sarzy said:

^ That makes me think of Britney and her pink wig.

Aren't they both bipolar?

[waterslide]

I don't know what either Britney or Anne were diagnosed with, but from my armchair psychiatrist point of view, Anne has PTSD from childhood trauma and that's where "Celestia" came from. It seems like Britney's issues are partly environmental and partly organic. In other words, if Anne had any sort of support system growing up with her abuse, she probably would be fine - an energetic, fun, witty person. Britney, on the other hand, if she'd gone on to be a hair stylist or receptionist or president of a bank, would still have suffered from some mental illness flare up. Just my opinion. Which means nada. lol However, both paths lead to psychotic breaks, so maybe it doesn't even matter, sadly.

[eva]

Nurse here - used to also be a Case Manager in an ICU. We always draw drug and alcohol levels right away in a trauma because it effects mental status, drugs we can give, etc. The cops had to get access to the results of the testing that were taken right away. A warrant, etc probably took time.

[Sarzy]

Anne Heche 'was on cocaine' when she crashed her car into a Los Angeles home last Friday

A close friend told Dailymail.com she was in 'terrible condition' and begged for prayers, saying 'only God can save her now' 
'The smoke inhalation is life threatening,' her friend said, adding she is in 'terrible condition'
'She will be in a coma for a long time and there are fears she could die because her lungs don't work on their own,' a source said

LAPD are treating the horrific crash as a potential felony, due to the injuries inflicted on the woman inside the home, Lynne Mishele



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