It’s us‘ Sterling K. Brown shared an update on her former colleagues Mandy Moore And Milo Ventimiglia after they both lost their respective homes in the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this month.
The actor, 48 years old, said Additional On Thursday, January 23, he had noticed Moore and Ventimiglia after the announcement of the fire in their houses.
“I talked to Milo, I talked to Mandy. I spoke to them both. It’s tough,” said Brown, who played Randall Pearson on the show. “They’re just in the middle of it all. It’s one day at a time.
Ventimiglia, 47 years old, and his very pregnant wife Loot Mariano’s The Malibu House was among the thousands of people destroyed by the fires.
In a strangely similar coincidence, that of Ventimiglia It’s us the character, Jack Pearson, died from smoke inhalation after the family home burned down in fictional scenes.
Ventimiglia spoke about it by telling CBS News on January 9, “You know, it doesn’t escape me, life imitating art.”
The actor, who watched his house burn via security footage, told the outlet the loss was “heavy.”
“You start thinking about all the memories in different parts of the house and so on, and then you see your neighbors’ houses and everything going on around and your heart breaks,” he said.
Meanwhile, Moore, 40, who played Ventimiglia’s on-screen wife Rebecca Pearson, was also affected by forest fires.
The actress shared via Instagram on January 9 that her home in Altadena, which she shared with her husband, Taylor Goldsmithand Gus, 3, Ozzie, 2, and Lou, 4 months, were destroyed. In her post, she revealed that the “main part” of their residence is still standing, but is “not habitable.”
“We were able to park and walk up our street to bear witness to all the losses. Miraculously, the main part of our house is still standing. For now,” she wrote via Instagram. “It’s not livable but it’s mostly intact. We lost Taylor and (brother-in-law Griffin Goldsmith) studio with every instrument and equipment they have ever owned. We lost our garage and our back house.
More than 12,000 structures are estimated to have been destroyed in the wildfires ravaging parts of Los Angeles, including the exclusive Pacific Palisades area, Malibu, Santa Monica and Hollywood Hills. Celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Miles Teller, Spencer Pratt And Heidi Monday areaamong those who lost their homes.
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