Mel Gibson, the Oscar winner, disclosed that while he was overseas doing a podcast interview with Joe Rogan, his house was destroyed by the flames in Los Angeles, reports RTE.
Gibson, who is both Irish and American, called the death “devastating” and “emotional,” but he tried to stay positive by breaking that his family was “happy and healthy and out of harm’s way.”
The actor and director said that his Malibu house was “completely toasted” when he returned from Austin, Texas, after filming The Joe Rogan Experience, when appearing on NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas Reports.
“I was doing the Rogan podcast. I was kind of ill at ease while we were talking because I knew my neighbourhood was on fire, so I thought, ‘I wonder if my place is still there?’, but when I got home, sure enough, it wasn’t there. I’ve never seen such a complete burn, it is obviously devastating, it’s emotional. You live there for a long time, and you had all your stuff. I lived there for about 14, 15 years, so it was home to me,” the Mad Max star said, reports RTE.
“I had a lot of personal things there that I can’t get back – everything from photographs to files to just personal things that I had from over the years. That can all be replaced. These are only things. And the good news is that those in my family and those I love are all well, and we’re all happy and healthy and out of harm’s way,” he added, reports RTE.
In the podcast conversation, Gibson voiced his displeasure with the city’s handling of the flames, which has drawn condemnation from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Gibson claimed that Governor Newsom “didn’t do anything” to assist in resolving long-standing environmental problems in southern California.
“It’s sad, the place is just on fire,” he added, reports RTE.
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