Rosie O'Donnell feels regret over past mocking of Anne Heche and calls car crash 'horrifying'

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Rosie O’Donnell took to TikTok Sunday in a clip in which she expressed regret for mocking actress Anne Heche over a 2001 interview in the wake of Heche's battle for life after a car crash on Friday.'I can’t stop thinking about this Anne Heche accident and how horrifying the whole thing is,' O’Donnell, 60, said, 'and feeling bad that I made fun of her when she was talking to Barbara Walters about having a relationship with space aliens.'O’Donnell alluded to the possibility that Heche, 53, might have been under the influence of alcohol in the incident, in which Heche had been riding a Mini Cooper that careened into a Mar Vista, California home that caught fire following the collision.

The latest: Rosie O’Donnell, 60, took to TikTok Sunday in a clip in which she expressed regret for mocking actress Anne Heche, 53, over a 2001 interview in the wake of Heche's battle for life after a car crash on Friday'If we have an honest discussion about drunk driving, we find out just how prevalent it is and that’s terrifying, isn’t it?' O’Donnell said. 'I wonder if she’s OK.

I think it’s a miracle that she didn’t kill anyone … and I hope she survives. 'But wow, what a tragic tale. That car was on fire for a long time, they say ...

that is a hard sentence to give yourself, you know.' O’Donnell praised the effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous and encouraged her followers to get help if they're 'struggling' with alcohol, saying, 'Try it before it’s too late - try it before you’re at your lowest.'Heche, speaking in a 20/20 interview in September of 2001, said that she had built a 'fantasy world' and adopted an alternate identity named Celestia as result of the trauma from being sexually molested by her father at a young age.