Anne Heche Dies Days After Car Crash at Age 53
Actress Anne Heche, the former partner of Ellen DeGeneres, died Friday at 53. Heche's death comes a week after after she crashed her car into a house in Los Angeles, setting the car and house on fire.
Police said she had narcotics in her system. Heche's family confirmed her death after earlier announcing that she had been taken off life support.
She had suffered severe burns and a brain injury in the crash, had been put on a ventilator, and was in a coma.Philanthropist Nancy Davis, a close friend of Heche's, first announced the actress's death via Instagram. “Heaven has a new Angel," she wrote.
She and DeGeneres were in a relationship from 1997 to 2000 and were a high-profile couple after DeGeneres came out as a lesbian.They appeared together on Oprah Winfrey’s show and many others.
