James Woods has revealed that his home is “nonetheless standing,” after indicating earlier this week that he’d misplaced his house within the fires raging throughout Los Angeles, in what he calls “a miracle.”
“A miracle has occurred. We managed to get to our property and our house, that we had been advised is gone ceaselessly, continues to be standing,” Woods wrote on X Friday, sharing a video from his deck. “On this hellish panorama ‘standing’ is relative, however smoke and different harm will not be just like the utter destruction round us.”
Woods shared the information about his home when he returned to his neighborhood. The actor additionally posted photographs and movies of the devastation throughout him, together with what appeared like charred and destroyed buildings, which he stated had been his neighbors’ houses.
He additionally shared a video of 1 road the place one facet appeared unaffected by the fires with the opposite facet destroyed.
“Whereas we rejoice to search out our home intact, within the midst of a hellscape like this, you may solely consider your neighbors,” Woods wrote. “I used to be so sure our home was gone a day in the past, however the fickle finger of destiny determined in any other case.”
Certainly, he stated the wreckage round him made it troublesome to have fun that he hadn’t misplaced his house.
“So many stunning messages from all of you. I’m so completely happy and grateful, however actually all the space appears to be like just like the darkish facet of the moon,” he wrote. “It’s so essentially gut-wrenching and upsetting, it’s nearly laborious to have fun the joyous information that our house survived.”
Woods had indicated earlier within the week that his house had burned down. He posted a video on X very early Wednesday morning, writing, “I took this final evening from our stunning little house within the Palisades. Now all the fireplace alarms are going off without delay remotely.” And he added: “It exams your soul, dropping all the things without delay, I need to say.”
In a dwell interview on CNN later that day, Woods stated his complete road was burning down, however highlighted how one neighbor was capable of save an aged resident with dementia shortly earlier than that man’s home burned down.
“There was a lot chaos, it was like an inferno. Each home was on hearth round us,” he stated of fleeing his house. “We had been evacuated with the garments on our again.”
Quite a few Hollywood stars have misplaced their houses within the wildfires, together with Anthony Hopkins, Billy Crystal, Mel Gibson, Jeff Bridges, Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Paris Hilton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Diane Warren and Cary Elwes.
