Actress Anne Heche has died at the age of 53 after being taken off life support on Aug.14 following a fiery car crash in Los Angeles just nine days earlier.
Heche was “peacefully taken off life support,” after a compatible person was found to receive her donated organs, spokeswoman Holly Baird said in a statement to Reuters Sunday night.
Heche was hospitalized after crashing her blue Mini Cooper into a Los Angeles home shortly before 11 a.m. on Aug. 5, prompting a huge fire that took nearly 60 firefighters more than an hour to put out, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The Ohio native suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury” among other critical injuries, and was not expected to survive, a representative for her family said in a statement obtained by Deadline on Aug. 11…