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Anne Heche's Cause of Death Revealed
Officials person released caller details regarding Anne Heche's death.
According to a Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner study dated Dec. 6 and obtained by E! News, traces of cocaine, cannabinoids (a substance recovered successful cannabis plants) and benzodiazepines (a depressant) were detected successful the Men successful Tree star's strategy successful August erstwhile she was admitted to a infirmary pursuing a car crash.
However, the coroner's spokesperson clarified that determination was nary grounds of impairment by illicit substances astatine the clip of the crash.
The cannabinoids were detected successful her urine but not her humor sample, which is "consistent with anterior usage but not astatine the clip of injury," per the coroner. Meanwhile, a trial connected her humor illustration astatine the infirmary showed the beingness of benzoylecgonine, an inactive metabolite of cocaine.
A urine trial performed aft Heche's hospitalization besides recovered fentanyl successful her system, though the coroner noted successful the study that the magnitude was "consistent with therapeutic use" by the hospital.
Heche tested antagonistic for alcohol, according to the report.
As E! News antecedently reported, Heche died of inhalation and thermal injuries sustained successful an Aug. 5 car crash, with a sternal fracture owed to blunt trauma importantly listed as "significant conditions" that contributed to her death. She was pronounced dead at 53 connected Aug. 11, after spending days successful a coma.
Per the caller coroner's report, Heche's inhalation injuries caused "changes to the respiratory strategy that decreases the intake of oxygen needed to prolong life," resulting successful anoxic encephalon injury.
"Anoxic encephalon wounded (despite the name) is not the effect of carnal trauma to the assemblage but is an wounded owed to deficiency of oxygen," the coroner wrote. "The sternal fracture she sustained is expected to beryllium achy portion breathing erstwhile she was successful her vehicle, further complicating oxygenation and truthful besides importantly contributed to death."
The coroner determined Heche's mode of decease arsenic an accident.
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The Six Days, Seven Nights actress' assemblage was cremated connected Aug. 18, according to a decease certificate obtained by E! News, with her final spot of burial listed arsenic the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Heche is survived by friends and family, including sons Homer Laffoon, 20, and Atlas Tupper, 13.
In a connection to E! News connected Aug. 23, Laffoon—who was recently named the imperishable head of Heche's estate—said helium and his member chose to hide their parent astatine the well-known cemetery due to the fact that it's "beautiful, serene and she volition beryllium among her Hollywood peers."
"Most importantly, Hollywood Forever is simply a surviving place, wherever radical be movies and concerts and different events," helium continued. "She was our Mom, but the kindness and the outpouring of the past fewer days reminded america that she besides belongs to her fans, to the amusement community, and now, to the ages."
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