<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Actor Anne Heche was “stable” in hospital amid a wave of support from fans and fellow stars following an accident in which she drove her car into a Los Angeles home, causing severe burn injuries to herself as well as damaging the house which has become “uninhabitable”.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>As of Saturday, the Los Angeles police department (LAPD) said it was investigating the incident but had not determined its cause. The Los Angeles fire department (LAFD) said in a statement it took 59 firefighters to extinguish the fire.</div><div><br></div><div>In a statement Heather Duffy Boylston, Heche’s friend and podcast partner, said: “Anne is currently in stable condition. Her family and friends ask for your thoughts and prayers and to respect her privacy during this difficult time.”</div><div><br></div><div>Ohio native Heche emerged on the NBC soap opera Another World from 1987 to 1991 where she snagged a Daytime Emmy. In the 1990s she became one of the hottest actors in Hollywood and co-starred with Johnny Depp in 1997’s Donnie Brasco, with Tommy Lee Jones in 1997’s Volcano and with Harrison Ford in 1998’s Six Days, Seven Nights.</div><div><br></div><div>Many people expressed their sympathy on Twitter as news unfolded of the fire through the weekend.</div><div><br></div><div>Actor Alix Wilton Regan called Heche “brilliant and complicated”, and applauded her for her kindness during the time they worked together. “Wishing her a quick recovery from these horrible crashes and safer, more solid, times ahead,” Regan said.</div><div><br></div><div>Actor Alec Baldwin said that Heche was an “amazingly talented woman”. In a video posted to Instagram he added: “I love you and I think you are such a talented person. I hope everything is OK, I hope you come through this. My heart goes out to you.”</div><div><br></div><div>Rosanna Arquette tweeted: ‘‘This is really tragic. Pray for her.”</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, Heche’s ex-partner, Big Little Lies star James Tupper, who shares a 13-year-old son with Heche, said they were both hoping for a quick recovery. “Thoughts and prayers for this lovely woman, actress and mother tonight.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fans also expressed support. “There cannot be anything worse than suffering from burns over any part of one’s body,” wrote one Twitter user, expressing sympathy for her sons.</div><div><br></div><div>Many also expressed their support and sympathy for the residents of the house struck by Heche’s car who reportedly escaped without injuries.</div><div><br></div><div>Heche’s long career has had its ups and downs after a traumatic childhood, which she has documented in a memoir and spoken about in many interviews. She is a survivor of years of sexual abuse from her father, and said it took 31 years for her to come out of that trauma.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2020, she claimed that her same-sex relationship with the comedian Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s caused significant harm to her career at a time when an anti-LGBTQ prejudice was rife in the entertainment industry.</div><div><br></div><div>She said 20th Century Fox told her if she invited DeGeneres as her partner to a premiere, they would “cancel” her contract. She was “ushered out” of the premiere when she took DeGeneres.</div><div><br></div><div>DeGeneres has not yet made any statement regarding Heche’s accident.</div><div><br></div><div>A CBS Los Angeles reporter said in a tweet the resident of the house, which was engulfed in fire, is “a mess”.</div><div><br></div><div>“I’m a mess. We’re alive, but that’s about as far as it goes,” the woman was quoted as saying.</div><div><br></div><div>A GoFundMe created for the victim, identified as Lynne Mishele, has raised more than $5,000 in a little over 12 hours. The Guardian could not independently confirm whether the fundraiser belongs to her. -The Guardian</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>