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Blood work showed that actress Anne Heche had narcotics in her system after she was critically injured in a fiery car crash in Los Angeles, according to police.
Heche, 53, is „unconscious“ and in „critical condition“ after she was involved in the one-car crash, which also damaged a Los Angeles home, her representative confirmed to ABC News on Monday.
The Los Angeles Police Department said Thursday that they received results of blood that was drawn shortly after the crash, which showed she had narcotics in her system.
Additional work is being done to rule out a positive result based on any drugs administered at the hospital, ABC News has learned.
Investigators that no alcohol was detected in Heche’s blood sample, though because the blood draw was many hours after the crash they are not ruling it out.
Law enforcement sources briefed on the crash and rescue that first responders who pulled Heche out of the car were unsure she would live on Friday given the severity of her injuries. The sources said she was unable to talk and without an ID, which may have burned in the fire, and that it took police until Saturday to positively identify Heche.
It is standard in such a crash to investigate whether drugs or alcohol could have been involved, sources said.
