Chris Pratt, Anna Faris
Rich Fury/WireImage; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty ImagesChris Pratt offered an update on his family amid the ongoing fires in Los Angelesrevealing that his ex-wife Anna Faris“The house burned down.
“Alright, I’m going to go see my house. Miraculously, it’s still standing,” Pratt, 45, said in an Instagram video uploaded on Wednesday, January 22. “By the grace of God, we have four walls and a roof.”
Pratt said he was “going to visit the city,” noting that he had not been home since the Palisades fires.
“It’s truly devastating, as you know. The positive side is that my house was saved but, at the same time, so many houses were burned around us and the community disappeared,” he continued. “My son’s school is gone. My son’s mother’s house burned down.
As wildfires continue to spread across the Los Angeles area, several celebrities are taking to social media to share how they have been affected. “Evacuated and safe with children, dogs and cats. I am praying and grateful to the first responders,” Mandy Moore wrote in an Instagram Story statement on Wednesday, January 8. In a follow-up post, she (…)
Pratt shares Jack, 12 year old son with Faris, 48, whom he was married to from 2009 to 2018. Following their divorcehe continued with Catherine Schwarzenegger. Pratt and Schwarzenegger, 35, got married in 2019 and I have since welcomed three children. (Faris married cinematographer Michael Barrett in 2021.)
THE Guardians of the Galaxy The star concluded his video on Wednesday by telling his Instagram followers that he would keep them updated on how to deal with the aftermath of the fires.
“These past few weeks have been tough, but we are resilient,” Pratt captioned the video. “Praying for Los Angeles and all those affected, we will get through this together. God bless.”
On January 7, an extreme windstorm driven by gusts from Santa Ana sparked fast-moving brush fires that quickly spread to Los Angeles. The fires are 70 percent contained and more than 23,000 acres of land burned Wednesday. At least 27 people were killed by the fire.
Los Angeles witnessed a frightening natural weather event and its celebrity community was heavily affected. An extreme windstorm, driven by gusts from Santa Ana, sparked rapid brush fires around 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, as drivers on Sunset Boulevard and Palisades Drive abandoned their cars to run to safety, according to (…)
Celebrities spoke out following the devastation, sharing news of their homes, some of which were burned to the ground. Pratt is one of the lucky ones whose house is still standing. Earlier this week, Nina Dobrev spoke frankly on “survivor’s guilt” after his house survived one of the fires.
“I put myself in the place of all those people whose homes burned to the ground along with their possessions, their memories, everything that made them feel safe in a world now gone, and their confidence has failed them,” said the actress in a January 19 Instagram video. “For some of them, the level of tragedy is immeasurable and really difficult to understand. They lost everything.
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