Sadly, Anne Heche is back in the news, raising doubts about society’s views on mental health. She was in a coma for several hours after crashing her automobile into a Los Angeles home on Friday, when she was 53 years old. Anne is in a life-threatening situation right now due to severe burns and a serious lung injury that need artificial ventilation.
She has been in a coma since the accident and hasn’t regained consciousness since then “Variety quotes an actor’s representative as saying in a statement. The Mini Cooper Heche was driving initially impacted a home’s garage and may have gone deeper within the building, according to accounts. Both the car and the house were completely consumed by the flames.
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Heche has been taken to the hospital with severe burns, according to the Los Angeles Times and other media outlets. It was described as a “miracle” by an experienced reporter who saw the accident from a helicopter.
It was not the first time Heche had been involved in an emergency situation, nor was it the first time she had been involved in a car accident on the same day. Heche allegedly crashed into a wall in an apartment building earlier in the day but escaped without serious injury. An actor who showed up at a stranger’s house asked the homeowner to wash, started talking erratically about spacecraft, and refused to go was taken to the hospital in 2002.
Heche is currently being investigated for driving under the influence and hit-and-run charges. GoFundMe has been set up by friends of the woman, whose home was damaged, who believe she is lucky to be alive following the catastrophe. Support for Heche, on the other hand, has been noticeably absent. Mental health crises are difficult to deal with in the United States, especially when they involve substance abuse.
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“There’s not a lot of ladies I’ve worked with that are bold the way that Anne is strong,” Alec Baldwin said in an Instagram video on Saturday, referring to Heche as an “old pal.” A large number of the over 800 comments on the video are critical of Baldwin’s decision to support Heche, who may have been under the influence of alcohol when he crashed his car. “You’re filthy… You should be proud of her because she nearly killed people “One user commented on the subject.
“My thoughts and prayers are with you. I’m sorry for what happened to you, and I wish you the best “Using a passive voice, Baldwin describes the crash as if Heche’s actions had nothing to do with it. As far as Baldwin is concerned, he has been clean and sober since the 1980s. The actor has been open about his past drug overdose and drinking for a long time now.
As a child, Heche believes she was sexually abused by her father, who died in 1983. She has spoken publicly about this abuse and her subsequent use of drugs and alcohol as a way to cope. It was a common experience for Heche’s family. A coping strategy she revealed to ABC News in 2001: “I was able to escape into a fantasy world. Celestia was the name I gave to my other self. I felt sure I belonged in that world. I was convinced that I had arrived from another world. I’m not sure if I was crazy.”
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Despite this, Heche’s 2002 mental health crisis was widely seen as amusing. It was written in 2004, according to the Los Angeles Times “Anne Heche was insane four years ago, but she’s now calmed down. What’s the problem? That’s what tabloids dubbed her, and it’s what she called herself as well.”
His book “Call Me Crazy,” published in 2001, appeared to be an attempt at reclaiming the label of “crazy” that had been bestowed on Heche by everyone from late-night comedians to the stage piece “Call Us Crazy: The Anne Heche Monologues.”
There is less tolerance for jokes that went unnoticed in the early 2000s. However, it is still difficult to grasp the connection between alcohol and drug abuse and mental health problems.
Rosanna Arquette also tweeted her support for Heche, calling the accident “very awful” and urging people to pray for her recovery. In response to the criticism, Arquette tweeted an apology and stated, “I will always have compassion for anyone who is having to suffer a mental illness like Anne Heche driving under the influence and obviously not ok by having to put others lives in danger is so tragic.” Arquette received a flurry of criticism for her response.
The results of a warranted blood draw are being awaited by Friday’s crash investigators. Just hours earlier, in an episode of “Better Together” she had put online, Heche admitted to drinking vodka “with wine chasers” just before taping.
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On the podcast, Heche is said to have discussed how she coped with a “really horrible day” by drinking alcohol. According to one of the podcast’s producers, it was recorded before the accident occurred, despite its distribution on the same day.
Since then, the video has been removed from the site. The inquiry into the accident is still ongoing. If we’ve learned anything in the past decade, it’s that making nasty jokes about mental health is not acceptable. However, we’re still on the road to considering and empathizing with all substance misuse sufferers.
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