Lynne Mishele, Who Lost House in Anne Heche Car Crash Is ‘Extremely Fortunate’ to Be Alive, Neighbor Says
Friday, the home of Lynne Mishele was allegedly demolished by ‘Donnie Brasco’ actress Anne Heche, who allegedly crashed into it while driving at 90 miles per hour.
A Los Angeles woman lost a lifetime’s worth of things when actress Anne Heche crashed her car into her home, igniting a fire that nearly claimed the lives of both women.
A GoFundMe page created for Lynne Mishele has raised almost $50,000 in one day. The page describes how Mishele, described as a ‘kind and generous person,’ “narrowly evaded physical harm” in the aftermath of the disaster.
The post reads, “Lynne lives with her beautiful pups Bree and Rueban, and tortoise Marley in the Mar Vista home that was destroyed this week by a car driving into the home at a high rate of speed, catching the house on fire. “
Lynne and her family very narrowly escaped physical harm, and for that we are very, very grateful. The home, however, was completely burned – with 59 firefighters taking 65 minutes to extinguish the flames – and immediately red-tagged by the LAFD, necessitating that Lynne leave the place she loves.
Even more distressing is that Lynne lost her entire lifetime of possessions, mementos, all equipment for her business including her laptop and iPad, all of her clothing and basic necessities, and all household items. With firefighters’ help, she was able to pull a few damaged sentimental belongings from the wreckage. Everything else is gone.
The crash started a fire that took more than an hour for 59 firefighters to put out. Heche was taken to a nearby hospital right away, where she was given a breathing tube and treated for burns. She is in the ICU, and her condition is said to be stable.
David Manpearl, a neighbor, told FOX3 that Mishel first thought that something had come from the sky and exploded in her house.
She is fortunate to be alive. He stated, “She was trembling when she told me she had just been in the living room where the automobile had crashed.”
Just minutes before Heche crashed into the nearly 70-year-old house, the Donnie Brasco star was seen on the same street after crashing into a garage.
A doorbell camera shows that Heche’s blue Mini Clubman drove by a house on South Walgrove Avenue in the Mar Vista neighborhood at about 90 miles per hour just before he destroyed Mishele’s house.
Mishele’s residence is located at 1766 South Walgrove Avenue, approximately 15 miles from Heche’s residence, in the Eastern Columbia Lofts building in Downtown Los Angeles’ Broadway Theater District.
Lynne Bernstein, Mishele’s neighbor, told FOX3 that her friend was ‘very fortunate’ to have survived. She said, ‘As were her dogs and turtle.’
According to Bernstein, Mishele was located elsewhere in the house than where the crash took place.
She said of her initial response to the collision: “I don’t think she understood what was happening.” What happened? she questioned. What just happened?
In addition, according to Bernstein, Heche’s automobile “nearly all the way through” the house before “very immediately” catching fire.
The 53-year-old “Vanished” actress was apparently driving her blue Mini Cooper through a Los Angeles suburb around midday when she smashed into an apartment complex garage.
According to the source, witnesses attempted to assist Heche in exiting the vehicle, but she allegedly backed up and drove away before smashing into a second residence and catching fire.
A bottle with a red cap was seen in the car’s cup holder right before the accident, which makes it look like Heche may have been drunk. But it was hard to get in touch with the Los Angeles Police Department right away.
People in the area tried to get the “Donnie Brasco” actress out of the car, but she turned around, drove away, and crashed into a house, starting a serious fire, the news outlet reported.
First responders pulled Heche from the wreckage while her clothes were still on fire, and aerial footage the site got shows that she tried to get out of the gurney.
In a hospital, she was connected to breathing machines and in severe condition, but she was “expected to live.”
According to investigators, Heche was traveling at such a high rate of speed that her Mini Cooper became wedged 30 feet within the house. According to officials, there was one resident in a different section of the home who was not hurt.
Local CBS station surveillance footage revealed that her blue automobile was recklessly driving through a residential neighborhood prior to the collision.
KCBS-TV aired footage of a charred, debris-strewn automobile being pulled away from the accident scene, revealing that the vehicle was scarcely recognizable after the collision.
According to the report, Heche’s critical state precluded investigators from administering an alcohol test.
The actress has discussed her struggles with substance misuse in public.
“I had a drink. I used to smoke. I used drugs. I had intercourse with other individuals. “I did everything I could to get rid of the humiliation in my life,” she told ABC News in 2020.
The actress, who had a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the 1990s before marrying cameraman Coleman Laffoon and dating actor James Tupper, has stated that she turned to alcohol and drugs as a means of coping with the traumatic experience of having her father, Donald Heche, engage in sexually abusive behavior toward her when she was a child.
According to the 2018 story, her brother Nate Heche, who was also sexually assaulted by their father, died in a high-speed automobile crash that the actress believed was a suicide three months later.
According to the report, Heche lost two other siblings; her eldest sister Susan died of brain cancer in 2006, and her other sister Cynthia perished in infancy. According to the story, she has one surviving sister, Abigail, and was separated from her mother for decades.
