Anne Heche - The actress died at the age of 53, who is the donor of her heart?

Anne Heche's rep told E!: "Today we have lost a bright light, a kindest and most joyful soul, a loving mother and a loyal friend.

People miss her very much and the image of Anne is still present in her children. Her courage to stay true to herself delivered a message of love and acceptance that continues to have a lasting impact."

Homer Laffoon, son of Heche, painfully confirmed the sad news. He said in the statement: "Brother Atlas and I have lost our mother. After 6 days of almost unbelievable emotional upheaval, I am left with only deep, indescribable sadness. I hope you are not. more pain. Rest in peace mom, I love you."

MC Ellen Lee DeGeneres - Heche's once famous gay lover - expressed on Twitter: "I send all this love to Anne's children, family and friends." The tweet came shortly after ET published the news of Heche's death.

According to information, even though Heche died legally under California law, her heart was still beating. The actress's family allowed One Legacy - an organization specializing in the rehabilitation of non-profit agencies - to find a suitable heart recipient.

A day ago, Deadline reported that Heche fell into a state of brain death, a prolonged coma after a serious car accident in Los Angeles. The actress did not improve her health after a period of active treatment.

The star born in 1969 was identified with brain damage, severe lung injury. She has to be kept alive on a ventilator.

On August 5, Heche drove a car on a street in the suburbs of Los Angeles (USA). At noon of the same day, her car lost control and crashed into the garage of the apartment complex. The people around tried to help the actress get out of the car. However, she reversed the car and crashed into another house, setting the whole vehicle on fire.

Born in 1969 in Ohio, Anne Heche is best known for her acting career spanning more than three decades, appearing in more than 40 films and television shows. Entering the film industry in 1987, she was known to the public for her first lead role in the soap opera Another World. Her role as twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love in this film earned her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress.

In addition, Heche made his mark in the works: Donnie Brasco, Wag the Dog, If These Walls Could Talk, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Six Days, Seven Nights... Before his death, in July, Heche has completed his last role in The Idol - the HBO series.

Successful in his career, Heche experienced a life of many tragedies. She is the youngest child in a poor family with siblings. The family settled in Ocean City, New Jersey when Heche was 12 years old. Due to tight finances, her whole family was evicted for not paying enough rent, had to live in a church.

In an interview on Larry King Live in 2001, Heche said that she had been raped by her father many times when she was a child. In March 1983, her father died of HIV/AIDS when she was 13 years old.

In 2020, in an interview with ABC News, Anne Heche said she used to plunge into alcohol, drugs and sex constantly, "lost her mind" in the first 31 years of her life to forget the pain of being sexually abused by her father. Heche once said that she, who had undergone mental health treatment, created an imaginary world called "The Fourth Dimension" to make herself feel safe.

Anne Heche's love life was turbulent. Heche had a deep same-sex relationship with MC Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s and broke up in August 2000. On the day of the breakup, the actor only wore a bra and shorts, walking on the street. Heche was taken by ambulance to the University of Fresno Medical Center and hospitalized, but was released within hours. Upon receiving news of the death of her one-time lover, Ellen DeGeneres wrote on Twitter: "I send Anne's children, family and friends all my love."

After DeGeneres, Heche was married to cinematographer Coleman "Coley" Laffoon, had a son Homer, and broke up in 2008 after eight marriages. After filming Men in Trees, the star fell in love with co-star James Tupper, dated and gave birth to a second son - Atlas - and then broke up in 2018.

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