Actor and director Mel Gibson says his home of over a decade burned down in Los Angeles while he was recording a podcast interview with Joe Rogan.
In a later interview with NewsNation, Gibson says he returned to find his home “completely toasted”.
The loss is “emotional” and “devastating”, he says, but adds that his family are “happy and healthy and out of harm’s way”.
Gibson also expressed frustration at the city’s response to the wildfires.
Other Hollywood celebrities who have lost their homes to the deadly Los Angeles wildfire include Paris Hilton, Billy Crystal and Adam Brody.
Actor James Woods, who starred in films including Nixon and Casino, broke down in tears on CNN as he described losing his Pacific Palisades property.
“One day you’re swimming in the pool and the next day it’s all gone,” he told the network.
He wiped away tears as he described how his wife’s eight-year-old niece offered them her piggybank to help rebuild their house.
More than 1,000 structures have been destroyed as six separate blazes burn in and around the city, which is dotted with film stars’ mansions.
Some of the worst devastation was in the scenic enclave of Pacific Palisades, where a wind-whipped inferno exploded from several hundred acres to more than 15,000 in size since Tuesday.
A swathe of the neighbourhood, which is a haven of hillside streets nestled against the Santa Monica Mountains and winding down to beaches along the Pacific Ocean, was reduced to ash. BBC