Anne Heche in critical condition after car crash.
 

Prayers for Anne.

I just saw this. How horrific. I wonder what was going on that she drove into a house, then drove away and hit another house. Was she having a medical emergency? Or maybe a mental health emergency. I'm hoping the very best for her.

I'm guessing mental not physical.

There's a photo (TMZ or some such) of her in her car prior to the event (not clear if it was taken by a neighbor or a paparazzi or what) and they zoomed in on what looks like a bottle of booze..but who knows.

Their story says she rammed into a different bldg, an apartment complex or something first, then when people came out and tried to interact with her she raced off, and then hit someone's house with her car which somehow started a nasty fire (gas tank of car exploding, who knows) and the house was badly burned, as was she. People tried getting her out but she was reportedly freaking out. There's reports and some pics of first responders getting her out and onto a stretcher and her clothes are clearly sooty and she was being somewhat aggressive with them as they tried loading her into the ambulance.

I remember a long time ago she was in some strangers yard howling at the moon or something strange like that. Sounds like she's been a looney bin for her whole life.

Yeah, she's out there. How long did Lindsey date her?

And what year?

Apparently during the OOTC tour-

https://buckinghamnicksinfo.tumblr.c...in-with-fm/amp

And a search of Ledge posts-

https://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=13057

She slipped into a coma.

It looks like maybe alcohol was involved. This is beyond sad.

Not looking very good at this point.

She suffered a severe anoxic brain injury, that's bad bad news, it's brain deprived of oxygen. I just read she won't make it. The family will disconnect the machines keeping her alive, or so I read.

The family is planning to donate her organs to those in need.

This is very sad. Thankfully no one else was killed or injured. I was a fan of hers from the first episode I saw her in on Another World- she really did jump off the screen even then, and I wasn’t a bit surprised when she became successful after leaving the show. I read a disturbing interview with her where she spoke about having regular conversations with God, which told me right away she had serious mental health issues. There’s a difference between meditation/prayer and thinking you’re having conversations with God, and her later behaviors were examples of that. She grew up with a father who was gay but closeted, who died from AIDS, and she went from high school right to the soap opera.

Has Lindsey said anything at all about this? I was hoping even a simple comment of condolences or sympathy would be forthcoming. Even Ellen Degeneres has expressed concern for her.

I too was reading about here today. Very very sad. :(

Rest In Peace

Very sad. I was reading this today and forgot so much about her. She had a very hard childhood with abuse and her parents were fundamentalists. She made it big on tv and film until she dated Ellen and she no longer was given leading lady roles. Her mother melted down over Ellen and still has not gotten over it. She had many hard obstacles in her past. Publicly she overcame lots but probably not so much privately. Very talented and its very sad she is gone.

Was the reason that she was not given leading roles really because she had dated Ellen ? Jodie Foster is married to another of Ellen's ex girfriends and won a Golden Globe for acting last year and has another film coming out with Annette Bening and is about to start filiming HBO's True Detective season 4 as the lead.

True, but Anne and Ellen dated back in the late 1990s, I think, almost 25 years ago. A lot has changed in 25 years, and some of that change is due to Anne and Ellen for being willing to be honest about their relationship. I remember reading at the time that the movie studio was considering dropping Anne from Six Days Seven Nights because they thought the publicity about Anne dating Ellen would keep people from believing she could be a love interest for Harrison Ford, and Harrison had to pull his weight to keep that from happening.

and let's not forget that Jodie Foster was not out publicly until she was much later in her career (2010s)...well after she was established and award-winning and all that. Recall that Ellen got her sitcom cancelled once she came out, and didn't really work for years until she made her comeback with her talk show.

Very true. Its crazy to think but in the episode of Ellen where she says the words "I'm Gay" had half of her advertisers cancelling the show. Wendy's was one of them.
Besides the backlash Ellen and Anne had from the relationship, Anne had it worse because Ellen was not an actress who needed casting. During their breakup, Anne got flamed even from many in the gay community for dumping Ellen and the immediately dating a man. I dont remember the exact quote but Rosie O'Donnel had an issue with it and publicly said so. Apparently NO ONE is allowed to dump Ellen and get away with it.

One of the craziest anti-gay Hollywood moments ever involved a heterosexual/straight guy. Actor Harry Hamlin played a gay guy in the 1982 movie Making Love. Playing a gay guy on film destroyed his career and he never was cast in a major role again. Studios feared he would be thought of as that "gay guy." But he's not gay and was playing a character in a film. He was on his way to A list actor before Making Love and then was almost blacklisted.