Actress Anne Heche (53) has died, a week after the violent car accident, several British media reported on Friday evening.Anne Heche died after she was disconnected from the ventilator on Friday, a week after the car accident in Los Angeles.Her death was announced by her friend Nancy Davis, reports Showbiz411.Heche crashed into a house in Mar Vista in Los Angeles on Friday a week ago.Both the car and the house caught fire.The actor suffered an injury which means that oxygen does not reach the brain.A spokesperson for the family said on Friday morning that she was therefore not going to survive, according to NBC News.- It has long been her desire to donate organs, and she is therefore being kept alive while it is investigated whether someone is suitable, said the spokesperson.Tests of Heche's blood after the accident show that the blood contains traces of drugs, say the police in Los Angeles.It is currently unknown which intoxicant or which medicine is involved.Heche got his breakthrough in the soap opera "Another World" in the early 1990s, and has starred in films such as "Donnie Brasco" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer".She recently had a role in the TV series "Chicago PD".From 1997 to 2000, Anne Heche was in a relationship with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.- This is a sad day.I send all my love to Anne's children, family and friends, writes DeGeneres on her own Instagram story on Friday evening.James Tupper, Heche's ex-husband, posted on Instagram shortly after Heche's passing.- Love you forever, writes Tupper under the picture of his ex-wife.A post shared by James Tupper (@mrjamestupper)