Proper earlier than Anne Heche crashed her automotive right into a Mar Vista dwelling just a little earlier than 11 a.m. Friday, she was performing like “a candy little lady” as she purchased a brilliant crimson wig at Glass Hair Design in Venice, salon proprietor Richard Glass stated Monday.
About an hour after the crash into the home, almost 60 firefighters rescued Heche from the wreckage of her small blue automotive in Mar Vista, a neighborhood on L.A.’s westside, simply two miles from the salon. Additionally they extinguished flames that enveloped the automobile and left the home uninhabitable.
Movies taken earlier than the crash present Heche rushing within the neighborhood, slamming into an house constructing’s storage, narrowly lacking a pedestrian and hitting a Jaguar earlier than winding up on the home within the 1700 block of South Walgrove Avenue.
Heche was in essential situation Monday, on a ventilator and in a coma, after struggling critical burns due to the crash, her consultant advised The Occasions in a press release. The burns require “surgical intervention,” the assertion stated, and the actor has “a major pulmonary damage.”
Heche is now underneath investigation by the LAPD, and authorities have obtained a search warrant for the actor’s blood drawn on the hospital to see whether or not she was intoxicated.
Nonetheless, based on superstar hair and make-up artist Glass, Heche “wasn’t talking in cursive” when she stopped at his salon round 10:35 a.m. Friday, based on time stamps on a number of photographs he took with the actor after ringing up her buy.
“Talking in cursive” is how Glass describes an individual who’s underneath the affect, be it alcohol or medicine. Heche didn’t seem altered to him, he stated in an unique interview with The Occasions on Monday.
The Daytime Emmy winner was “very nice,” Glass stated, when she popped into his Major Avenue salon by the again door sporting a strappy prime, comfortable pants and fluffy, plush home footwear.
When he first caught her out of the nook of his eye, strolling into the store by herself from the parking zone, Glass stated he thought she was certainly one of his shoppers, “Orange Is the New Black” actor Lori Petty. Then he realized her hair was too lengthy.
Heche instantly eyed some wigs organized on a shelf over his shampoo space — in colours starting from pure shades to stunning pink and stable white — and requested a few blue one. When Glass stated that that one was spoken for, Heche stated she would purchase a brilliant crimson wig as a substitute.
The salon proprietor stated he advised Heche that the crimson wig hadn’t been minimize or styled and even washed but, however that the 53-year-old did not care. By the point he went to ring her up, he had acknowledged who she was and so they proceeded to take quite a lot of selfies collectively. He posted one exhibiting the 2 of them — and the wig — on his Instagram account.
“So I met @anneheche right now and he or she bought a #redwig so random,” Glass captioned the selfie for his 3,000 followers. “I like #venicebeach #actress #director #mother #superstar #life-style.”
Within the photograph, Heche is sporting no make-up and her hair is a bit rumpled as she smiles for the digital camera.
The “Six Days Seven Nights” actor “grabbed my face” and cuddled it, stated Glass, a Venice native, and he or she requested him if that they had labored collectively earlier than. Glass advised her no, however stated he was positively out there sooner or later.
“In one of many photos TMZ posted, you possibly can see the wig on the console,” the stylist stated. And certainly, the photograph that many consider allegedly exhibits a bottle of alcohol within the automotive’s cupholder additionally exhibits a little bit of crimson fringe the place the wig sits on the passenger aspect of the middle console.
After Heche left, Glass returned to the consumer whose hair he had been engaged on, and so they mentioned their surprising customer. “We talked about that she had gone out with Ellen [DeGeneres],” Glass stated. “We seemed her up. I IMDb’d her!”
The entire encounter was “so unusual,” he stated. “Very, very random.”
Mar Vista neighbor David Manpearl advised The Occasions on Monday that he noticed a automotive velocity by his window, then heard a loud thud. It took him a number of seconds to determine that there had been a crash, he stated, however when he arrived, he discovered the entrance wall of the home was lacking and particles was all over the place.
Heche’s Mini Cooper had gone by the home and was lodged in a wall within the again, he stated. He stated he discovered the house’s tenant standing barefoot together with her tortoise and two canines in the course of what was left of her kitchen, surrounded by particles.
Occasions employees writers Richard Winton, Nicole Kagan and Christian Martinez contributed to this report.
This story initially appeared in Los Angeles Occasions.
