Hollywood celebrities break down on social media as wildfires rip through Los Angeles
Hollywood celebs forced to flee their homes are taking to social media breaking down over the devastating wildfires tearing through Los Angeles.
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Celebrities have detailed their devastation on social media as wildfires tear through Hollywood heartland, forcing them to flee their homes.
Around 180,000 people have now been told to evacuate as a handful of separate fires burn across Los Angeles, with the ritzy Pacific Palisades among the most ravaged areas, engulfing more than 17,000 acres. Five people have been confirmed dead as of Thursday, local time.
US model and actress Molly Sims, who attended the Golden Globes on Monday, could be seen hysterically sobbing in a video shared to her Instagram page, with the star saying she had no idea if her Palisades house was intact.
“I just wanted to give everyone a little update,” the 51-year-old said, before breaking down in tears.
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She continued, “Our community is beyond devastated. We are all pulling together, a lot of my friends have lost their homes, I’m waiting to see if our home will be there.
“Right now, it’s just a waiting game. But I just wanted you to know I appreciate all the texts and DMs [direct messages], and anything you can do in terms of donations … I’ll share a whole list. All we can do is wait.”
Sims, who also owns a home in the Hamptons, is married to US film producer Scott Stuber, with whom she shares three children.
Elsewhere, comedian and podcast host Whitney Cummings shared a TikTok video of herself frantically preparing to evacuate her home, which also doubles as her recording studio, in Topanga, a region nestled between Malibu and the Palisades.
“I am evacuating my home. It’s so hard to leave the podcast studio behind,” Cummings, 42, tearfully said.
“I know that sounds insane. I have everything, like my son’s birth certificate. But just to leave … all this.”
Cummings, who created the 2011 sitcom 2 Broke Girls and started recording her popular podcast Good for You from her home in 2019, then panned the camera to her window, showing the large smoke clouds nearby.
“I don’t know if you can see. It’s pretty close,” Cummings said, sobbing.
“I don’t know what I’m gonna lose, but it’s weirdly like, you really find out what matters to you when you have to evacuate. I’m not taking the cameras. I’m just taking little trinkets and stuff that you guys gave me at shows.”
Paris Hilton, Anthony Hopkins, Billy Crystal, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, and Adam Brody and Leighton Meester are among the high-profile names who have lost their homes so far.
Meanwhile, stars have turned on LA Mayor Karen Bass over the city’s response to the most destructive fire in the city’s history.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress Sarah Michelle Gellar led the criticism, sharing on her Instagram stories: “City of LA you want everyone to evacuate yet you have complete gridlock and not one traffic cop on the roads helping,” she wrote, tagging Bass, 71, and the city of Los Angeles.
Fellow actress Sara Foster, best known for roles in 90210 and Barely Famous, didn’t hold back in a scathing post on X, demanding that both Mayor Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom should “resign” over their handling of the crisis.
“We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared,” she tweeted.
“Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are getting their drug kits. @MayorOfLA @GavinNewsom RESIGN. Your far left policies have ruined our state. And also our party.”
Actor James Woods, who earlier live-tweeted the devastation as the fires closed in on his Palisades home, called both Newsom and Bass “liberal idiots” on social media: “One doesn’t understand the first thing about fire management and the other can’t fill the water reservoirs,” he claimed.
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