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Actress Anne Heche joked about drinking vodka with wine chasers in the most recent episode of her podcast
She seemed to slur her words as she and co-host Heather Duffy said a company provided them with free alcohol to try on their show
They said they were following the advice of a doctor who told them to drink vodka instead of wine, but noted they are using wine to chase down the vodka
Heche then goes on to say she is having a bad day in the episode that aired Friday
The 53-year-old actress crashed her Mini Cooper into a Mar Vista home that morning
She had earlier been pictured with a bottle of vodka in her car
Authorities say she was able to speak with firefighters on the scene following a fiery crash in Los Angeles
LA Fire Department Captain Erik Scott said she was trapped in her car as the fire began to spread, but noted: 'She was talking to us at the time that we were able to pull her out'
Heche was later filmed rising up off a hospital trolley as she was wheeled into an ambulance
A neighbor recounted how fire department officials had to use a crane to pull her out of the car
A slurring Anne Heche joked about drinking vodka with wine chasers as she detailed how she's been having a 'very bad day' in an episode of her podcast that aired just hours before she crashed her Mini Cooper into a house.
In Friday's episode of Better Together, the 53-year-old actress appears to slur her words as she and co-host Heather Duffy tell the audience Refined - a vodka distillery which sponsored one of their shows - provided them with free alcohol.
'We each have a bottle in front of us because our friends sent us a bottle of Refined and I think we even did a bad commercial for them in the beginning of our days
'Dr. Rahm said that we should be drinking vodka instead of wine,' Duffy says, to which Heche adds, 'and we listened, and we are drinking it.'
Duffy then reveals they are using wine to chase down the vodka, before Heche reveals: 'Today's been a very unique day.
'I don't know what happened, sometimes days just suck and I don't know if you ever have them [but] some days, those no good, very bad days, and some days days just end up like this.
'Sometimes days just suck and I don't know if you ever have them, but you know some days, Mama says just gonna be like this,' she continues. 'Some days there's those no good, very bad days.
'And I don't know why some days just end up like this, and things don't really rock me like that.'
She later revealed how she has had a tough week, explaining how people interrupted her meditating at her apartment.
It remains unclear if the podcast was recorded on Friday, or if that is just when it aired.
But it came just hours before Heche pranged her Mini Clubman on a block of garages in Los Angeles around 11am Friday, before speeding off at up to 90mph and plowing 30 feet into a home.
She had earlier been pictured with what appeared to be a bottle of vodka in the cupholder of her Mini Cooper, and was filmed racing in her blue Mini Cooper down a Venice Beach road, which residents said she had circled several times that morning.
The video, obtained by TMZ, shows Heche gripping her steering wheel as she sped down the street at around 10.45am. The resident who took the video said it was actually the third time she circled the street, and on the second go-around people started screaming at her to slow down.
In Friday's episode of Better Together, Heche appears to slur her words as she and co-host Heather Duffy tell the audience they are drinking vodka with wine chasers.
A photo from earlier on Friday shows Heche moments before the second accident at the wheel with a bottle of vodka with a red cap plonked in the cup holder
Despite the speed of the smash and the intensity of the ensuing blaze, Heche was still conscious and able to speak as she was pulled from the wreckage, Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Erik Scott told ABC 7 in the aftermath of the devastating crash.
'When we arrived on the scene, we had a solo vehicle that appeared to be driving at a high rate of speed on a perpendicular street and launched through the front yard into the home,'
Scott said Heche, a mom-of-two, was trapped in her car as the flames began to spread, but noted: 'She was talking to us at the time that we were able to pull her out, so that's a good sign.'
The actress, who once dated Ellen DeGeneres, was spotted on doorbell footage hammering down a residential street before she took out a hedge, slammed through a building, causing her car to explode on impact.
She is understood to have battled scorching heat in the burning vehicle for up to 30 minutes before 59 firefighters arrived to drag her to safety.
Authorities then had to use a crane to pull Heche out from the flaming vehicle, a neighbor who witnessed the crash told NBC 4.
Aerial footage later showed her bursting through the straps in a white bag before writhing in pain on a stretcher as she was bundled into an ambulance and rushed to a local ICU.
Heche remains hospitalized and in intensive care, an anonymous source told CNN.
'Anne is in the ICU, she's lucky to be alive,' the unnamed source said. 'She has severe burns and has a long recovery ahead.
Actress Anne Heche has been intubated in a critical condition after crashing her Mini into a garage before speeding off and smashing it into an apartment block where it exploded
The 53-year-old suffered horrific burns during the collision and was recorded being dragged out of the mangled wreck by firefighters after it burst into flames in LA around 11am
An interior shot shows the Mini Clubman's airbag had blown out along with most of the decor being burnt through following the crash
Last night, Heche was said to be intubated and in a critical condition in an LA hospital having suffered horrific burns during the collision.
She was recorded being dragged out of the mangled wreck by firefighters after her car burst into flames mid-morning on Friday.
She could be seen writhing around on the stretcher before she was bundled into the back of an ambulance and rushed to a nearby intensive care unit.
Shocking images also show the burnt out wreckage of her Mini Clubman as it was towed out of a hedge across the road from a school in the Mar Vista area.
And video captured by a doorcam shows the vehicle owned by the actress speeding down a Mar Vista street moments before crashing into a home, sparking the blaze.
Heche had been driving her blue Mini Clubman in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles when she careered into a garage of an apartment complex, after possibly hitting a curb.
Locals rushed to help the stricken actress with one man demanding she get out of the car. She ignored the advice and restarted the ignition, slammed her car into reverse and sped off down the road at speed.
Pictures and video showed her looking dazed at the wheel after the first crash, with a witness captured her with a bottle with a red top on it in her car.
She later quickly veered off the road again, smashed through a hedge and and rammed into a nearby home in the 1800 block of South Walgrove Avenue.
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The actress, who dated Ellen Degeneres before they split up, suffered severe burns and has been intubated but is expected to live following the horror crash
The Los Angeles Fire Department said it took 59 firefighters 65 minutes to put out the 'stubborn flames' and 'rescue one female adult found within the vehicle.'
'The house was tons of smoke. I think they used the crane to move the car to extract the driver. It was crazy,' an eyewitness told NBC Los Angeles.
Aerial footage showed her with brutal scarring across her back from the fire after her top appeared to have been shredded by the heat and she writhed across the stretcher in pain.
Firefighters were able to get the flames out within about an hour, according to Fox 11 but Heche suffered severe burns in the resulting blaze.
'If there's somebody alive in there this is going to be a miracle' Fox 11 reporter Stu Mandel said as he watched from a helicopter hovering above the scene.
Jaw-dropping pictures from the scene showed the burnt out hull of the car as it was recovered from the hedge before being towed away by the authorities.
'We really had a multifaceted incident here,' LAFD Capt. Erik Scott said. 'We had a significant traffic collision, we had entrapment of a woman inside that, we had car that erupted into fire, and then we had a home that had significant fire that is red tagged. It's at this point destroyed.'
'Her condition prevents doctors from performing any tests to determine if she was driving under the influence of alcohol,' TMZ reported.
The Los Angeles Fire Department also revealed how the vehicle had driven 30 feet into the residence but that the occupant had escaped without injury.
The vehicle struck a two-story house 'causing structural compromise and erupting in heavy fire.' The building was left 'uninhabitable', spokesman Brian Humphrey added.
DailyMail.com previously spoke exclusively with neighbor David Manpearl who caught the incident on his doorbell camera. His home office looks out to his yard on a residential street about five houses away from where Heche crashed.
He said: 'At about 10:50am I heard a car go speeding by and looked out my window where I saw the car going about 90 miles an hour.
DailyMail.com spoke exclusively with neighbor David Manpearl who caught the incident on his doorbell camera
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DailyMail.com spoke exclusively with neighbor David Manpearl who caught the incident on his doorbell camera
'Within seconds I heard a loud crash at which point I ran outside in my flip flops because I knew someone was hurt and boy was I right.'
Manpearl who has lived in the family friendly neighborhood said he ran towards the intersection where the Mini had crashed into the home.
'Before I approached the car, I saw the resident of the home standing barefoot in the debris. She was in shock and frantically asked me to help get her pets out of the house.
'I was able to get the leashes for her two small dogs and escorted her out of the side of her house. She had her two dogs with her and a tortoise.'
Manpearl explained how he then went to the car to help the driver who was wedged inside between the airbag and the seat.
he said: 'I tried speaking with her a few times asking if she was ok but she wasn't responding so I had to get closer. I was able to open the back door of the car and crawled half-way inside.
'This time when I asked her if she was ok, she said no.' Manpearl asked Heche if she could raise her hand to see if she was ok and she said no and made some grunts.
That was when the hero neighbor felt water dripping on him only to realize another neighbor was squirting a hose at the car which had now caught on fire and was quickly spreading up the walls of the house.
He continued: 'I tried to talk to her again and noticed it was getting smokey and the flames were now on my right and my left so I quickly made my way out of the car.'
The engineer made his way to the front of the house and attempted to put out the flames with another hose but realized it was useless because the whole house was ablaze. By now nearly ten fire trucks had arrived.
He said: 'I was positive that the driver was dead. That she had burned up. It took at least 30 minutes for the fire department to douse the flames, extract the car and pull her out of the car.'
'I was surprised to find out that it was Anne Heche. I think I knew she had had problems in the past.'
The owner of the house that was hit, with all her pets including a tortoise, spent the remainder of the day at Manpearl's house and was in the garden when the car hit.
Neighbor Roy Morgen added that the homeowner ran inside his home for safety following the crash.
'Luckily she didn't get hurt and neither did her two dogs,' Morgen told ABC 7. 'She happened to be sitting with them.
'She was just in the house with us o tell us that the dogs were sitting with her when the car came flying through, and the car stopped like two feet away from where she was sitting.'
The LAFD said her home is now destroyed.
Heche is now said to be 'stable' following the fiery crash.
She is 'expected to pull through' but remains intubated in hospital following the horror crash in Mar Vista on Friday morning, her ex-boyfriend Thomas Jane told DailyMail.com.
Jane, 53, also paid an emotional tribute to her, saying despite the fact they are no longer together he offers her his 'thoughts and prayers' and credited her 'one of the true talents of her generation'.
Heche is a mother to two sons - Homer, with cameraman ex-husband Coleman Luffoon, as well as Atlas, who she had with former boyfriend James Tupper.
The actress, 53, (left) is the former partner of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, and is known for films including Donnie Brasco, Cedar Rapids, and a remake of Psycho
Jane, who dated in 2019 and 2020 and worked together on the HBO series Hung, told DailyMail.com: 'While Anne and I are no longer an item, todays tragic news was devastating to me and to all who love her.
'My heart goes out to Anne and her two sons. As of right now Anne is stable and expected to pull through. My thoughts and prayers are with Anne, one of the true talents of her generation. Thank God no one else was hurt.'
The couple dated as recently as 2020 and had even bought a house together. They had known each other for more than a decade and had co-starred as an acrimoniously divorced couple in Hung.
Heche is pictured with Harrison Ford in 1998 movie Six Days Seven Nights, her biggest role to date.
Heche, a native of Aurora, Ohio, most recently starred in the action pic 13 Minutes, in which she starred alongside Thora Birch, Amy Smart and Will Peltz.
She went through a very public divorce in January 2018 from her ex-husband James Tupper. The couple were together for 10 years and share a son, Atlas, 13.
She was well known for her romance with DeGeneres in the 1990s. She brought the talk show host to the premiere of her movie Volcano in 1997. She claimed the act saw her being 'blacklisted' from Hollywood.
'I didn't do a studio picture for 10 years,' she told Page Six. 'I was fired from a $10 million picture deal and did not see the light of day in a studio picture.'
Following her and Ellen DeGeneres' public breakup, she was found incoherent and babbling in the California desert. She stumbled into a stranger's home before being carted off to a hospital – hours after breaking up with the comedian.
'I was told to go to a place where I would meet a spaceship. I was told in order to get on the spaceship that I would have to take a hit of ecstasy,' Heche explained.
'Fresno was the culmination of a journey and a world that I thought I needed to escape to in order to find love.'
Shortly after the couple dated, the director tied the knot to Coley Laffoon. They also share 20-year-old son Homer Laffoon.
Heche's divorce from the cameraman was finalized in 2009, two years after they initially ended their romance. The blonde later started dating Men In Trees co-star James Tupper in 2007, before they split in 2018.
Heche shares son Atlas with her ex James Tupper.
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