Joshua Jackson breaks his silence after his $2M family home burned down in LA fires
Joshua Jackson broke his silence after his $2 million home in Topanga Canyon was burned to the ground by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.
The day after the ashes and rubble of what remained of his multi-storey home were photographed, he assured fans that he and his family were doing well despite being displaced.
“First and foremost, all the people closest to me who were affected by the fire are well,” the 46-year-old actor said in a statement shared by his representative with Term.
“My daughter, my family and my neighbors all got out safely,” he said.
He then confirmed that he lost his childhood home, which he bought in 2001, to the catastrophic Palisades Fire, which broke out in Southern California on Tuesday.
Jackson joins a number of other celebrities who lost their homes in the fires, which killed at least 16 people.
Joshua Jackson broke his silence after his $2 million home in Topanga Canyon burned to the ground in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires; pictured in September 2024 in Pacific Palisades
The day after the ash and rubble of what remains of his multi-storey residence were photographed, he assured fans that he and his family were doing well despite being displaced.
‘Unfortunately my beautiful house did not survive the fires. But today I feel incredibly lucky to be surrounded by the people I love,” the Dawson’s Creek star shared.
Photos obtained Saturday by DailyMail.com capture a pile of charred remains showing what was once Jackson’s home.
Parts of his backyard and swimming pool were still intact, while the hills around the area where the house once stood were barren after fire ravaged the area.
It was in that same house where Doctor Odyssey had previously spent his early childhood before returning to Canada at the age of eight after his parents divorced.
He bought the property more than 20 years ago and lived there with his four-year-old daughter Juno Rose Diana, whom he shares with his ex-wife Jodie-Turner Smith.
In 2021, he spoke about purchasing the property where he previously lived as a young child in a sentimental, full-circle moment.
“Unfortunately, my father was not a good father or husband and left the scene,” he said Mr Porter in July 2021.
He continued, “But in that house in Topanga, everything felt simple, so it was very healing for me to do.”
He then confirmed that he lost his childhood home, which he bought in 2001, to the catastrophic Palisades Fire, which broke out in Southern California on Tuesday. Parts of his backyard and swimming pool were still intact, while the hills surrounding the area where the house once stood were barren after the fire ravaged the area.
He bought the property more than 20 years ago and lived there with his four-year-old daughter Juno Rose Diana, whom he shares with his ex-wife Jodie-Turner Smith; pictured in May 2022 in New York City
It was in that same house where Doctor Odyssey had previously spent his early childhood before returning to Canada at the age of eight after his parents divorced. He previously revealed that after he and his then-wife Turner-Smith welcomed Juno, his childhood bedroom became their daughter’s room; pictured in September 2024 in New York City
He also revealed that after he and his then-wife Turner-Smith welcomed Juno, his childhood bedroom became their daughter’s room.
“There was a mural of a dragon on the wall in that room that I couldn’t believe was still there years later,” he said.
‘The [previous] The owner said, “I knew it meant a lot to someone and that they would come back for it one day,” he added.
In addition to Jackson, a slew of A-listers living in the celebrity enclave of the Pacific Palisades have also lost their homes to the ongoing wildfires, which have so far destroyed thousands of structures and burned more than 22,000 acres in Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
A-list stars such as Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, as well as Paris Hilton, Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore and Anna Faris, have also lost their homes to the bushfires.
Fires have broken out in the Pacific Palisades, Eaton Canyon, Malibu, the Hollywood Hills and other areas around Los Angeles amid “life-threatening and destructive” storms that began Tuesday.