Anne Heche crashed her blue Mini Cooper into a home a little before 11 a.m. PT on Friday, Aug. 5, in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles.
It took nearly 60 firefighters to rescue her from the wreckage that ignited a fire that raged so out of control, Heche was rushed to a nearby hospital with burns, and the home became uninhabitable.
The fiery car crash, it would later become clear, was her third car crash within a 30-minute span. While the actress' heart is still beating, she is brain dead, which is the definition of death according to California law.
On the heels of the tragic news, ET takes a closer look at the days and moments leading up to her horrific accident and what we know now.It's been reported that Heche recorded a since-deleted episode of her podcast in which she claimed to have been drinking vodka «with wine chasers» after being «rocked» by a «very bad day.»The episode dropped Friday, hours before her crash, leading some to speculate the crash happened after recording the episode.
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