Milo Ventimiglia fights back tears while visiting rubble of charred home lost in California fire
Milo Ventimiglia fights back tears while visiting rubble of charred home lost in California fire
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‘It hits you so quick,’ the ‘This is Us’ actor said after surveying destruction for first time. Milo Ventimiglia fought back tears while visiting the remains of his house that was ravaged by the deadly California wildfires raging through the Los Angeles area.
![[Milo Ventimiglia fought back tears while surveying wreckage of home in California fires]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/10/08/newFile-1.jpg)
The This is Us and Heroes actor was one of many Hollywood stars who lost their homes after evacuating Malibu on Tuesday (7 January) and, while surveying the damage for the first time, he emotionally reflected on the “heavy” loss. He also described the incident as “life imitating art”, revealing it “wasn’t lost” on him that his This is Us character Jack Pearson saved his family from a house fire.
![[The Malibu location where Milo Ventimiglia’s home stood before being ravaged by wildfires]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/10/08/newFile-2.jpg)
News footage showed Ventimiglia pulling up to the location where his home, worth $4.4m, stood just days before. “Then you see your neighbours’ houses and everything around, and your heart just breaks.”. Choking up while speaking, Ventimiglia added: “Man, it hits you so quick.”.
He said he watched the house burning down with his heavily pregnant wife Jarah Mariano for a little while before turning the cameras off. “I think there’s a kind of shock moment where you’re going, ‘Oh, this is real, and this is happening,’” he said. “And then at a certain point, we just turned it off. What good is it to continue watching? We kind of accepted the loss.”.
