“I am sorry, I assumed I used to be stronger than this,” the actor stated along with his face in his arms, after revealing how his spouse’s 8-year-old niece supplied to assist.
Actor James Woods broke down in tears throughout an interview concerning the southern California fires.
Whereas showing on CNN on Wenesday, he described the wildfires ripping via the southern a part of the state, forcing him to evacuate from his dwelling in Pacific Palisades.
“I am sorry, it is simply sooner or later you are within the pool and the subsequent its all gone,” Woods stated with each his arms on his brow.
James Woods breaks down in tears on CNN pic.twitter.com/Hw1nxQkBTu
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With tears in his eyes, he then recalled how his spouse Sara Miller-Woods’s 8-year-old niece pulled out her “little piggy financial institution for us to rebuild our home.” His tears got here after he shared the identical anecdote on X, including, “Some issues will make a grown man cry.”
“I am sorry, I assumed I used to be stronger than this,” he stated, after he acquired choked up.
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Woods and 1000’s of others had been ordered to evacuate the fires ravage Los Angeles suburbs with zero containment as of Wednesday afternoon.
Woods started publish movies of the encroaching fires pretty early within the day on Tuesday, earlier than saying he was “leaving” the world as houses round him started to burn down.
“We had been blessed to have LA hearth and police depts doing their jobs so nicely. We’re protected and out,” he posted to X. “Can’t converse extra extremely of the LA hearth and LAPD.”
He continued sharing footage from his safety cameras, earlier than saying his neighbor’s dwelling was on hearth. In a single day, he shared that “all of the smoke detectors are going off in our home,” an indication that his home was probably succumbing to the fireplace.
“I couldn’t imagine our beautiful little dwelling within the hills held on this lengthy. It looks like dropping a liked one,” he wrote. “It assessments your soul, dropping every part directly, I have to say.”
I took this final evening from our stunning little dwelling within the Palisades. Now all the fireplace alarms are going off directly remotely.
It assessments your soul, dropping every part directly, I have to say. pic.twitter.com/nH0mLpxz5C
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Wednesday, he shared a publish on X together with a video wanting over the bay and houses within the space at sundown earlier this week, noting simply how totally different the view was for him when he needed to evacuate.
The actor — who’s a recognized Republican — additionally shared his opinion on who’s guilty for the fireplace’s unfold on social media, sharing a screenshot of an article claiming LA Mayor Karen Bas lower funding on the LAFD.
A very powerful process forward is to not be bitter, however… pic.twitter.com/ATS81VGj1w
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 8, 2025
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He additionally responded to at least one commenter mentioning the “irony” of him dropping his dwelling in a fireplace after voting for Donald Trump — who, the consumer famous, is “recognized for his skepticism about local weather change.”
“The hearth just isn’t from ‘local weather change,'” Woods wrote. “It is as a result of liberal idiots such as you elect liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass.”
“One would not perceive the very first thing about hearth administration and the opposite cannot fill the water reservoirs,” he added.
