Tori Spelling knows she is lucky that her house is still standing after evacuating during the L.A. wildfires, but she wasn’t sure what she was walking into.
“I walk through our front door. You guys, I’m not an alarmist,” Spelling, 51, began during the Friday, January 24, episode of her “Misspelling” podcast. “I walked in and I gasped.”
After seeing the status of her house, Spelling’s first thought was that someone had looted the home. But that’s not exactly what went down.
“[I thought], ‘While we were gone, out of town, evacuated, someone has broken into our home and has burglarized our home. There have been looters here. Look at the state of the house,’” she said. “There was s— everywhere. I mean, it looked like people had come in and just trashed our house. Then upon closer inspection, I realized, oh s—, no, this is just the way I live.”
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Spelling explained to podcast listeners that she took her five kids — Liam, 17, Stella, 16, Hattie, 13, Finn, 12, and Beau, 7 — and evacuated to an Airbnb in Camarillo, which is north of Los Angeles. (Fires started in Los Angeles earlier this month have burned more than 50,000 acres of land with several stars having lost their homes.)
“That’s when it really dawned on me that when all of this settles down, I know it’s just stuff. I’ve seen the devastation, the loss, friends, families, people displaced, people that have lost everything,” Spelling continued. “When you’re lucky enough that you still have your home and you still have your things, it really put it into perspective that it’s like, God, I have so much stuff.”
The actress said that she’s “happy” and “excited” to donate some of her belongings to those who need it in the wake of the fires.
“I’m really ready to do that — especially this all on the heels of me doing my hoarding episode — I really just haven’t had the time, but I’m ready to let go of stuff,” Spelling explained. “Everybody around us in L.A., losing their stuff and needing stuff. Especially being back in town now, we can help donate all our stuff that we can get out and give it to the people who have lost stuff.”
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She added, “Walking in and not recognizing your own home that you haven’t been in in a week, because you’ve been in this nice Airbnb that’s all clean. … Anyway, my point is, I walked into my home and didn’t recognize my home, because it was in such a state of disaster that I thought someone had looted it.”
Spelling was quick to realize that nothing actually happened while she was gone.
“I looked around and all my stuff was still there,” she said. “All our stuff was still there. It just was everywhere.”
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