Posted on 01/10/2025 11:08:06 AM PST by Red Badger
Mel Gibson is among the multiple celebrities to have lost a home in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.
During an appearance on NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas Reports Thursday, Jan. 9, the actor revealed that his Malibu home was destroyed while he was filming in Austin, Texas.
"Obviously, it’s kind of devastating. It’s emotional," said Gibson, 69. “You live there for a long time, and you had all your stuff."
"I had my stuff there, and it’s all like, I’ve been relieved from the burden of my stuff, because it’s all in cinders,” he added.
Gibson added that he "was kind of ill at ease" about being out of town while fires continue to rage in Los Angeles.
"I knew my neighborhood 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," the Braveheart actor added.
"I went home and I said to myself, 'Well, at least I haven’t got any of those pesky plumbing problems anymore,' ” he joked to host Vargas.
Gibson added that his "chickens survived, it was amazing," and added that he believed his neighbors, including Ed Harris, had also been affected.
"It was completely toasted," he said of his own property.
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Aww! What a blessing. Praying for more and more pets left behind to be spared miraculously.
Chicken(s) Run!
Didn’t he do a cartoon chicken voice for a kids movie?..........
‘Well, at least I haven’t got any of those pesky plumbing problems anymore,’ I read that in his Martin Riggs voice lmao
A lot of likes from one contingent:
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eggsactly
great claymation movie, from the Wallace and Gromit creator, Nick Park
His favorite chicken is named Sugar Breasts.
Not minimizing anyone’s loss, but when your life is spared, “it’s only stuff”, is a good attitude to have. Losing everything but your life (and your chickens) must certainly be life changing; but those who don’t have money to rebuild are in sad shape, indeed.
My favorite chicken is named Kentucky Fried...............
I love the man. Not easy to stay the course surrounded by mostly jackals. Chickens are amazing yard pets. They are really quite intelligent. My daughter used to have a chicken entourage wherever she walked on our farm. They enjoy being trained and doing tasks. I never quite had the time, but she was our “hen whisperer”
That’s right, he also did the voice of Captain John Smith in the Disney movie “Pocahontas”.
We have 4, two Rhode Island Reds, 1 Americana and 1 French Black Copper..........
all In 1995 my rural home caught fire and burned completely while I was 25 miles away in town at work. It was pretty isolated on a hill, no nearby neighbors.
The fire department arrived in time to just wet down the ashes. Besides the house itself, I lost all my stuff, 40+ years of tools, electronics, music collection, musical instruments and gear, a lifetime of personal momentos, most of it irreplaceable.
After a little while I, like Gibson, felt relieved of the burden of the stuff. Precious though it was, it's only "stuff".
And then my next feeling was, "Okay, time to ... GET MORE STUFF!!"
30 years later, I again have a bunch of stuff. Now the problem will be how to divest myself of it before I croak, so that nobody else has to deal with it.... sigh. :-)
One of the great things about chickens roaming your property is they eat ticks like crazy. California is infested with ticks with Lyme disease.
He jokes about just losing "stuff" but deep down he's hurting, knowing that that stuff is attached to memories, and when the reminders of those memories, "the stuff", is gone, so will be the memories.
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