WEST HILLS — After per week of hospitalization following a weird crash right into a Mar Vista dwelling, Anne Heche was declared mind lifeless at Grossman Burn Middle at West Hills Hospital and Medical Middle, her household introduced Friday, though the actress was saved on life help so her organs might be harvested for donation.

A household consultant instructed Rolling Stone and different media shops that Heche, 53, was formally declared mind lifeless Thursday night time. Her loss of life got here a few week after the actress crashed her blue Mini Cooper into a house within the 1700 block of South Walgrove Avenue round 11 a.m. final Friday, Aug. 5. The home was largely destroyed within the ensuing fireplace.

The household introduced earlier Thursday night time that Heche was not anticipated to outlive her accidents. Hours earlier, a Los Angeles Police Division officer instructed Metropolis Information Service blood exams on Heche following the crash confirmed the presence of “narcotics,” however extra exams can be wanted to rule out substances that will have been administered at a hospital following Friday’s crash.

A “felony DUI investigation” was being performed, Officer Annie Hernandez mentioned.

The blood exams confirmed that Heche was not drunk on the time of the crash, Hernandez mentioned.

TMZ reported that the exams confirmed Heche “was beneath the affect of cocaine … this in accordance with regulation enforcement sources, and probably fentanyl as nicely,” however it was unclear if the fentanyl was already in her system or was the results of drugs administered on the hospital.

Tributes started pouring in for the actress Friday. Ellen DeGeneres —with whom Heche had a high-profile relationship from March 1997 till they broke up in August 2000 — wrote on Twitter Friday morning, “It is a unhappy day. I’m sending Anne’s kids, household and associates all of my love.”

Actor James Tupper, who had a son with Heche, posted a photograph of her on Instagram and wrote merely, “Love you eternally.” Tupper and Heche co-starred in “Males in Timber,” which aired on ABC from 2006-2008.

Shut good friend Nancy Davis wrote on Instagram, “Heaven has a brand new Angel.”

“My loving, type, enjoyable, endearing and exquisite good friend (Heche) went to heaven,” she wrote. “I’ll miss her terribly and cherish all the gorgeous reminiscences we’ve got shared. Ann was all the time the kindest, most considerate one who all the time introduced out the very best in me. She was so supportive with something she may do to assist @racetoerasems and would all the time say sure when she knew she may contribute one thing together with her time, expertise and artistic genius to assist discover a treatment for MS. My coronary heart is damaged.”

Heche rose to fame on the cleaning soap opera “One other World,” the place she performed the twin position of twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love from 1987 to 1991 and received a Daytime Emmy Award for her efficiency.

She additionally had roles in movies together with “Donnie Brasco,” “Six Days, Seven Nights,” “Wag the Canine,” “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” and director Gus Van Sant’s remake of “Psycho.”

Heche additionally appeared on tv collection together with “Ally McBeal,” “Chicago P.D.” and a recurring position on the CBS courtroom drama “All Rise.” In June, she signed on to star in Lifetime’s “Woman in Room 13,” which is about to premiere this fall.

The Ohio native additionally had a 20-year-old son, Homer Heche Laffoon, with ex-husband Coleman ‘Coley’ Laffoon.

The weird collection of occasions that led to her loss of life started earlier the morning of Aug. 5. TMZ obtained video displaying Heche concerned in a minor collision at a Mar Vista-area condominium complicated, crashing right into a wall in a parking space, then driving away as folks close by tried to assist. The crash into the house occurred a short while later.

Surveillance video posted on social media confirmed her automobile rushing down the 1700 block of South Walgrove Avenue, a residential avenue close to Palms Boulevard, simply previous to the crash, which despatched Heche’s blue Mini Cooper fully into the house.