Extremely critical condition: Family asks for prayers for actress Anne Heche

• Anne Heche was speeding when she had a serious accident.
• The actress was severely burned.
• Family and friends ask for prayers.

After reports of Anne Heche’s serious car accident, the first statements about Ellen DeGeneres’ ex have emerged. How serious is her condition? Her family asks for prayers for actress Anne Heche.

Anne Heche was hospitalized Saturday after an accident where she crashed her car into a house and was engulfed in flames, a spokeswoman said. “Anne is in the ICU, she is lucky to be alive. She has severe burns and a long recovery ahead of her. Her team and her family are still trying to process what led up to the accident,” a source close to Heche told CNN on Saturday morning.

Family asks for prayers for Anne Heche

“Anne is in stable condition. Her family and her friends ask for prayers, and to respect their privacy during this difficult time,» Heather Duffy Boylston, Heche’s friend and fellow podcaster, said in a statement yesterday, according to AP.

Heche was speeding when she came to a T-intersection, veered off the road and crashed into a home in the Mar Vista section of West Los Angeles shortly before 11:00 a.m. Friday, said Tony Im, a police officer from Los Angeles.

Anne Heche was in a serious car accident

The vehicle ended up inside the two-story home and caused a fire that took 60 firefighters over an hour to put out, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Anne Heche was taken in critical condition to a local hospital by paramedics from the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Video from a television news show shows a badly damaged and burned blue Mini Cooper Clubman being towed away from the home and a woman on a stretcher struggling to sit up as she is being loaded into an ambulance.

The incident is still under investigation by the authorities

No other injuries were reported and no arrests have been made. Police are investigating what happened. Ohio native Anne Heche rose to fame on the NBC soap opera Another World which aired from 1987 to 1991. She won an Emmy award for her performance on that series.

She has also been recognized for great performances alongside actors such as Johnny Depp, Tommy Lee Jones, Harrison Ford, as well as Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix.

Only one of her famous exes has spoken

Anne Heche had a three-year relationship with talk show host Ellen De Generes. A year later she married cameraman Coleman Laffoon. They were married for eight years and share a son.

In addition, James Tupper, who was her co-star on Men In Trees, is the father of Anne Heche’s second son. Tupper has been the only former partner of the actress who has spoken out on social media to wish her a speedy recovery.