Milo Ventimiglia cries as he loses his home in wildfires in Los Angeles
Milo Ventimiglia became emotional as he revealed that his Malibu home was completely destroyed Wildfires in Los Angeles – scary similar circumstances to his this is us Character, Jack Pearson.
Ventimiglia, his wife Loot Mariano41, is nine months pregnantvisited the charred remains of the couple’s former home before it burned to the ground CBS News on Thursday, January 9th.
In conversation with CBS News As he inspected the damage, Ventimiglia, 47, admitted the loss felt “heavy.”
“You start thinking about all the memories in the different parts of the house and whatnot, and then you see your neighbors’ houses and everything around them and your heart just breaks,” he said.
After years of avoiding Milo Ventimiglia’s acting projects, his wife Jarah Mariano recently started This Is Us. “So my wife finally started watching it,” Ventimiglia, 47, joked during the Tuesday, October 15, episode of Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown and Chris Sullivan’s “That Was Us” podcast. “She has hardly ever seen anything that I have ever seen (…)
The Gilmore Girls Alum knew before the visit that their house was no longer standing because he had watched it burn on surveillance cameras after the evacuation on Tuesday.
“It’s kind of a shocking moment when you go, this is real, this is happening and at a certain point you just turn it off,” he said. “What’s the use of continuing to watch? We kind of accepted the loss.”
Coincidentally one of Ventimiglia’s most famous characters, this is us” Jack died of smoke inhalation after a crock pot caused his family’s home to burn to the ground.
“You know, it’s not lost on me that life imitates art,” Ventimiglia said CBS News the similarity between the fictional scenes and his real circumstances.
Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
While Ventimiglia and Mariano lost most of their possessions in the fire, including a crib for their unborn baby, who is due to arrive any day, the actor is grateful that the most important things survived.
“We have good friends and good people that we will work with and we will create. The most important thing is the wife, baby and dog,” Ventimiglia said.
The couple, that were linked first in 2022 and married in 2023, announcing in September 2024 that they were expecting their first child together.
“Baby on board!” Mariano wrote at the time on an Instagram post in which he shared maternity photos while sitting on a surfboard.
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Ventimiglia played opposite Jack Mandy Moore as his wife Rebecca Pearson this is uswhich ran from 2016 to 2022.
The actor revealed that Mariano had recently done it started watching the emotional series during an appearance on the “That Was Us” podcast in October 2024.
“She can separate Jack from me, but she’ll just cry more,” he said, laughing. “It’s one of those things. She just cries and takes it in. I don’t bother her; I don’t ask her, ‘Hey, tell me about this character, this scene, tell me something.’ I wait for her to want to talk to me about it.”
