Jennie Garth broke down in tears as she revealed her ex-husband Peter Facinelli admitted her this week amid the catastrophic LA fires.
The Beverly Hills, 90210 veteran, 52, sobbed Thursday as she said her ex and Twilight star Facinelli and his family had protected her and that her childhood home had been “spared.”
“I just wanted to let you know that we are safe,” the actress began. ‘Peter and his family have taken us in and have been so kind.’
Then she told me how sad she was. “I’m deeply saddened for our city and just feel numb,” Jennie said.
“Our home was spared, but there was still so much to be cleaned up and ready to get active to help our neighbors, friends and fellow Angelinos.”
She then said her husband Dave Abrams “did a great job of transporting, loading and unloading all of our bags and boxes.”
Jennie Garth broke down in tears as she revealed her ex-husband Peter Facinelli admitted her this week amid the catastrophic LA fires
The Twilight hunk filed for divorce from Garth in 2012. The divorce was finalized in June 2013; they are seen in 2005
Firefighters battle the Eaton fire in high winds as many homes burn in Pasadena on January 7, 2025
She ended with, “Just keep everyone here who is suffering in your hearts and prayers. I am grateful that we are all doing well and that we have a home to return to. This will have a different effect on people so please reach out and offer help, it really means so much.
“Thank you for all the love sent this way.”
Jennie and Peter have become close again after their divorce.
They met on the set of their 1995 film An Unfinished Affair and married in January 2001. The union did not last and Facinelli filed for divorce in March 2012, which was finalized in June 2013.
Garth shares three daughters Luca, 27, Lola, 21, and Fiona, 18, with Facinelli, 50.
In October, she shared that she had two miscarriages with her husband Dave Abrams shortly after they got married.
She and the actor, 43 – who married in 2015 – opened up about the difficult time they went through in an episode of her iHeartPodcast, I choose me with Jennie Garth.
The star recalled feeling “ashamed” after not being able to give Abrams a “baby boy.”
“I think at that moment I felt very down on myself, really ashamed, feeling like I was letting you down, like I wasn’t able to carry a pregnancy with you, who I loved,” she recalled.
“And I had had these three beautiful daughters with Peter, and you had stepped in and become such a wonderful stepfather to them.”
The Beverly Hills, 90210 star, 52, was makeup-free with her blonde hair down as she wore clear-rimmed glasses and a gray tank top. She cried as she said her ex-husband, Twilight star Peter Facinelli, took her in during the terrible Los Angeles firestorm.
She and Pete met on the set of their 1995 film An Unfinished Affair and married in January 2001 (the family pictured in 2011)
“And I remember wanting so, so, so badly to give you a baby boy,” she said.
Jennie admitted that she doesn’t remember much of that time because she blocked it out.
“This is a pretty vulnerable topic, and I really appreciate that you’re open to talking about it, because I think it could help some people,” she said at the start of the conversation.
“At what point in our relationship did we start talking about maybe having kids together?”
“Well, remember, we got married on July 11,” Abrams replied. “And then we got pregnant that same month.”
“We got pregnant naturally,” Garth added.
‘Yes. We’re back from Carmel. We went to a little mini honeymoon to Carmel in Monterey. And like two weeks later you were pregnant,” Abrams said.
He continued, “Well, we went to Nancy, your doctor, and the gynecologist, and yes, we were ready to go. And then that lasted almost four months. And then we found out.”
‘What do you mean?’ Garth asked her husband.
In October, she shared that she had suffered two miscarriages with her husband Dave Abrams, 43, shortly after they married in 2015; the couple seen in 2023 in Berlin, Germany
“Well, I don’t want to get emotional in the first fifteen minutes of a podcast. Yes, we found out there was no heartbeat,” he said.
Abrams said he was “upset” after finding out. Garth asked, “Did you feel mad at me?”
“No,” he replied. “I wasn’t upset, I was just sad.”
The pair were then informed about a dilation and curettage procedure (DNC).
A dilation and curettage procedure is a procedure that removes tissue from your uterus. Healthcare professionals perform dilation and curettage to diagnose and treat certain uterine conditions – such as heavy bleeding – or to cleanse the uterine lining after a miscarriage or abortion,” according to the Mayo Clinic.
“I had had these three beautiful daughters with Peter, and you had stepped in and become such a wonderful stepfather to them,” she said; they can be seen in 2018
“I think I remember them saying we could just wait and let it take its course,” Garth said.
‘Let nature take its course, otherwise we can carry out the procedure. And we chose to do the procedure because it was just too hard for me to carry a baby who had been terminated.”
“Yes, it was very hard,” her husband said.
The couple then opted to have the procedure done that day.
The couple then reconciled with the fact that it might not be “in the cards” for them to have a child.
“But then it happened again,” Abrams said. “Of course,” Garth added, though she said she couldn’t remember this one either.
‘So it was shorter. I remember when we had to change doctors. And this one was the only one, you know, you found out you were getting pregnant. And this only lasted a month and a half,” Abrams said.
‘I think the doctor at the time said, “Well, it won’t be healthy.” So then we did the DNC again.”
“And by then I think it had definitely taken an emotional toll that we didn’t know how to communicate at the time. So we just wrapped it up and then other things came into the fold.”
Many A-list celebrities have lost their beautiful multi-million dollar mansions in Los Angeles due to the fires in the Pacific Palisades and Hollywood Hills.
The homes of Anthony Hopkins, Anna Faris, Paris Hilton, Candy Spelling, Heidi Montag, John Goodman and Miles Teller are destroyed.
But several stars have managed to keep their belongings safe through sheer luck and the help of brave firefighters.
One of the happiest Hollywood stars is Kate Hudson, who has two houses in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
The two mega-properties are located next to each other and are opulent with two floors, generous balconies, lush lawns and swimming pools.
Other stars who have seen their homes saved include Tom Hanks, Rebel Wilson, Tom Brady, Chris Pratt, Dan Aykroyd, Steven Spielberg and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Firefighters are battling a series of major blazes that have killed at least five people, destroyed communities and forced thousands to flee.
More than 18 square miles and 1,300 structures were destroyed in the LA area on Thursday since five wildfires broke out in the region, causing an estimated $48 billion in damage.
Debris from burned homes can be seen in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood
Two new fires broke out overnight in the Hollywood Hills and Studio City, forcing emergency responders to redeploy their already scarce resources to the burned landscape.
The National Guard has been deployed and could send military personnel to help, amid revelations that hero firefighters are “triaging” homes and neighborhoods.
The LA Fire Department issued an evacuation order for people in an area within Hollywood Boulevard to the south, Mulholland Drive to the north, the 101 Freeway to the east and Laurel Canyon Boulevard to the west – all iconic addresses in showbiz.
The latest fires have burned vast swaths of iconic real estate in Southern California, from Malibu to Santa Monica, and from Pacific Palisades to Runyon Canyon, impacting millions of people who have been overwhelmed by the unprecedented spread and massacre.