"Serious lung injury": Anne Heche is in a coma

US actress Anne Heche's car crashes into a house in Los Angeles and catches fire - she suffers burns and is taken to the hospital.

"Serious lung injury": Anne Heche is in a coma

US actress Anne Heche's car crashes into a house in Los Angeles and catches fire - she suffers burns and is taken to the hospital. After reports of a "stable condition", details of her injuries are now emerging that refute this. Artificial ventilation is required, they say.

US actress Anne Heche remains hospitalized after her car crash in Los Angeles last Friday. Her condition is critical. "She has a significant lung injury requiring mechanical ventilation and burns requiring surgery," a spokesman said in a statement given to People magazine.

"She is in a coma and has not regained consciousness since shortly after the accident." It was recently explained that the 53-year-old Heche was in a "stable condition". Her family and friends would ask that "they pray and think of her and respect her privacy at this difficult time."

Heche drove her blue Mini Cooper Clubman off the road on Friday and crashed into a home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, setting both the vehicle and the two-story home on fire. The car was on fire after the impact and the driver suffered burns, the fire department said. Among other things, sources then reported to CNN that the woman was Anne Heche.

According to witnesses cited by TMZ, the actress previously crashed into an apartment complex garage. There she is said to have reset herself and continued on her own. The investigation into the accident continues.

The actress, who was born in Ohio, first gained an audience in the series "Another World" (1987 to 1992). In the soap opera she can be seen in a double role. This was followed by film appearances in "Wag the Dog" with Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro or "Six Days Seven Nights" with Harrison Ford. At the end of the nineties she was also seen in the remake of Hitchcock's classic "Psycho". She was also very successful on TV with the lawyer series "Ally McBeal". But even recently she has been successful in film and series productions. Around 2017 in the biopic "My Friend Dahmer", where she embodies the mother of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Anne Heche was in a relationship with both comedian Steve Martin and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. She has two sons.