It sounds like her car left the road at high velocity and crashed into a house ultimately creating quite the fireball. Yikes. We should wish her well in her recovery.
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...soon to be taken off life support. Not RIP yet.
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Yikes. I first encountered Heche together w/Catherine Keener (and Liev Schreiber and Todd Field - almost everyone in this tiny movie became some sort of star!) in Walking and Talking (1996), This was Nicole Holofcener's writing and directing debut and breakthough, and it's a very funny, insightful comedy about female friendship w/ beautiful soundtrack work by Billy Bragg. The friends' lives diverge when Heche's character gets engaged to her serious boyfriend (Todd Field) at the beginning of the movie then, at the end of the movie, marries him. It's currently on youtube for free here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P05bNhiqV-Q
[Uh-oh, the youtube video is cropped to a 2.2-1 or 2.35-1 asp. ratio from its natural 1.85-1, so while its useful for checking the odd scene-fact or line of dialogue, you'll have to track down another source for your primary viewing experience.]
Heche's screen persona like Keener's seemed to emerge fully formed in Walking and Talking. She's cute, fun but discontented so difficult, spiky/pricklish. My sense is that the restless discontent that Heche radiated as a young woman bloomed into being genuinely troubled as an adult, and that her adult life has not been easy.