Ellen DeGeneres has reacted to ex-girlfriend Anne Heche’s health amid her 140km/h car crash last week in Los Angeles.
The horror crash saw the actress ejected from her vehicle after it burst into flames after crashing into a house. He is currently still in a coma in the hospital, Fox News reports
Asked if he had spoken to Heche since the incident last weekend, the 64-year-old former talk show host said: “No, no. We’re not in touch with each other, so I wouldn’t know.”
When asked if she wanted to send well wishes to the actress, DeGeneres simply said, “Sure,” as she walked to her convertible. “I don’t want anyone to get hurt.”
DeGeneres also agreed that “it sure was” a “dangerous accident” that happened almost a week ago in LA.
Heche, 53, is currently in “extremely critical condition” at a medical facility after the collision in Mar Vista, which also destroyed a home and displaced a woman and her dogs.
“He has a significant lung injury that requires mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention,” Heche’s representative said. “He is in a coma and has not regained consciousness since shortly after the accident.”
In 2000, just hours after her three-year relationship with DeGeneres ended, Heche suffered a public breakdown when she was found at a stranger’s home in Cantua Creek, Fresno County, after park your car on a road and walk through the desert.
Authorities responded to the home of the affected resident and Heche was taken to the hospital after officials at the scene determined there was a serious medical issue.
“She proceeded to tell me that she was God and that she was going to take everyone up to heaven with her in some kind of spaceship,” a Fresno deputy wrote in a report at the time.
A year later, Heche admitted to Larry King that he had taken an “ecstasy” when he got out of his car, adding: “I was so far away at that point, you know, when I took the pill, I was waiting for the my spaceship.”
she said Page Six Last year, the failed relationship not only blacklisted her from Hollywood, but also “banned” her from the entertainment industry for a decade.
“I didn’t do a studio photo for 10 years,” he said of the aftermath. “I got fired from a $10 million picture deal and didn’t see the light of day on a studio picture.”
The accident is under investigation
Witnesses to Heche’s horror crash told TMZ they tried to help the actress out of her car before she crashed into a garage door, backed out of a parking lot and fled the scene of the facts Minutes later, the star crashed his car into a house and started a fire that engulfed the house.
On Monday, a Los Angeles Police Department public information officer confirmed to Fox News Digital that authorities obtained a warrant to obtain a blood sample from Heche on August 5.
Blood test results are pending and the investigation is ongoing. Los Angeles Police Department officials confirmed that if Heche is found to be intoxicated during the crash, she will be charged with DUI.
Witness Lynne Bernstein called the crash “horrific” and said she “could hardly breathe” as she tried to help Heche out of the blue Mini Cooper he was driving.
“The smoke was getting too heavy, we could hardly breathe,” Bernstein said. “The smoke made it hard to see.”
Heche suffered burn injuries and was “conscious and breathing” when she was removed from the vehicle and placed on a stretcher, before jerking to her feet as authorities moved her to an ambulance in a video from the ‘scene of the incident.
The crash “scared the whole neighborhood,” Yaroslav Borets told Fox News Digital. “Something we’ll remember for a long time.”
The homeowner of the home Heche crashed into, Lynne Mishele, was home at the time and “escaped with great physical harm” after the fire started. Ms Mishele’s neighbors set up a GoFundMe campaign which raised $US45,000 ($63,000) in a day.
This story originally appeared on Fox News and is republished here with permission