Plunged into a coma for a week after her terrible car accident in Los Angeles, actress Anne Heche was declared dead on August 11, 2022. While an autopsy was performed on her body, traces of cocaine were discovered.
Hollywood movie star in the 90s, the actress Anne Heche came to a dramatic end on August 5, 2022. That day, she was the victim of a serious car accident in Los Angeles. While she was driving her Mini Cooper, she hit the garage of a building. Subsequently, after restarting the vehicle, Anne Heche crashed into a villa. During this 2nd collision, his car caught fire. About sixty firefighters were then mobilized for more than an hour to come to his aid. Diving into a coma after this very publicized accident, the actress was targeted by an investigation for driving while intoxicated, or under the influence of narcotics. Anne Heche was finally declared dead on August 11, 2022a week later, at the age of 53.
Since the late actress was under investigation before her death, an autopsy was performed by a medical examiner on his body, in order to detect the presence of possible narcotics within his organism. Tuesday, December 6, 2022, the American magazine People unveiled the results of this famous autospy. It would seem thatAnne Heche was not impaired by drugs at the time of her car accident. In any case, this is what the report of the medical examiner of the county of Los Angeles affirms. The autospy, however, reveals that the actress had already used both cocaine and cannabis. “Hospital admission blood showed the presence of benzoylecgonine, the inactive metabolite of cocaine, meaning she used in the past but not at the time of the accident“, said a spokesperson for the county of Los Angeles on this subject.
Anne Heche died of an “anoxic brain injury” caused by her burns
Also, cannabinoids were found in his urine, but “undetected in admission blood and consistent with prior use, but not at time of injury“Toxicology tests performed on Anne Heche’s body also showed that the actress had fentanyl in her bloodstream, although the medical examiner’s report indicated that it had been”obtained after receiving treatment in hospital and is therefore compatible with therapeutic use“.”This is supported by the lack of fentanyl in the blood sample taken at hospital admission“, also underlines the report of the autospy, which also specifies that the burns of which the actress suffered because of her accident were so serious, that they prevented his body from efficiently absorbing oxygen. These injuries eventually caused a “anoxic brain injury“, which was fatal to Anne Heche. As a reminder, the actress suffered from 3rd and 2nd degree burns, but also from a fractured sternum when she was transported to the emergency room of UCLA Ronald Reagan Hospital in Los Angeles. Anne Heche was subsequently transferred to an intensive care unit specializing in burns at West Hills Hospital.