Actress Anne Heche dies

LOS ANGELES — Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning film and television actor whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the 1990s and accomplished career contrasted with ...

She had another son during a relationship with actor James Tupper, her co-star on the TV series “Men In Trees.” Heche worked consistently in smaller films, on Broadway and on TV shows in the past two decades. In a memoir released the following year, “Call Me Crazy,” Heche talked about her lifelong battles. By the late 1990s Heche was one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films. A native of Ohio whose family moved around the country, Heche endured an abusive and tragic childhood, one that helped push her into acting as a way of escaping her own life. Around the same time, her personal life led to even greater fame, and both personal and professional upheaval.

Actor Anne Heche has died from a severe head injury sustained in a car crash at the beginning of August, it has been announced.

More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work – especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love. They separated in 2000. In her personal life, Heche was the subject of much media coverage in the late 1990s after she and comedian Ellen DeGeneres announced that they were in a relationship.

The actress had been on life support after suffering a "severe anoxic brain injury," caused by a lack of oxygen, when her car crashed into a home Aug. 5.

She said she believed her father, Donald, was a closeted gay man. The announcement came two days after Heche was declared brain dead from a brain injury and severe burns after speeding and crashing her car into a home in the residential Mar Vista neighborhood last Friday, Aug 5. The family moved around a lot. In her 2001 Memoir “Call Me Crazy,” and in subsequent interviews, Heche said her father abused her sexually as a child, triggering mental health issues which she said she carried with her for decades as an adult. Heche acknowledged the romance took a toll on her career, saying the relationship with DeGeneres led to her firing from a multimillion-dollar film agreement, and that she did not work in a studio film for a decade. Actress Anne Heche has died of injuries from a fiery car crash, a spokesperson said Sunday. She was 53.

Actress Anne Heche has passed away, exactly one week after the actress crashed her car into a home in Los Angeles, family members confirmed.

LAPD dismissed Anne Heche's felony DUI investigation after the actress was declared brain-dead on Friday. Heche crashed her car into a Mar Vista home on Aug ...

I am grateful for their love, as I am for the support of my Dad, Coley, and my stepmom Alexi who continue to be my rock during this time. "Any information or records that have been requested prior to this turn of events will still be collected as they arrive as a matter of formalities and included in the overall case. "My brother Atlas and I lost our Mom. After six days of almost unbelievable emotional swings, I am left with a deep, wordless sadness.

Some news outlets announced Anne Heche's death on Friday. Others said she died Sunday. Will more media change the policies on publishing obituaries?

For hours, the “American Girl” singer was either dead, hospitalized, “clinging to life” or “fighting for his life,” depending on the publication. “And I think this is one of those situations where you have to get it right.” On direction from husband Liam Neeson, Richardson was flown from Quebec back home to New York, admitted to a hospital and ultimately removed from life support once her loved ones were able to gather around her. The Times chose to wait to publish an obituary until later Friday, after the family released a statement saying that Heche had died; Times reporters reached Heche’s eldest son, Homer Laffoon, who said his mother had died, at which point the obituary published. Most major news organizations, including the Los Angeles Times, historically have waited to declare a person “dead” and to publish the obituary only after life support has been disconnected. Heche smashed her Mini Cooper into an L.A. home Aug. 5 and was severely burned when the car erupted in flames.