Jhene Aiko returns to find her ‘cozy cottage dream’ home reduced to rubble after burning in LA fire

Jhené Aiko revealed the devastating impact of the ongoing fires in Los Angeles this weekend.

The 36-year-old singer – who revealed last week that her home in LA’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood had burned to the ground – returned to the scene and shared videos of the destruction on her Instagram Stories.

Aiko – who fought back against cruel social media comments from unsympathetic fans – surveyed the property, where little remained except a few brick walls and a burnt-out car and air conditioning.

“My cozy cottage dream,” she captioned the video, adding a teary-eyed emoji. “That stone did hold up,” she added.

So far, the fires have resulted in the deaths of at least 16 people and forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate.

In front of the building was what looked like a small VW-style van, but it had been completely burned, leaving only the charred metal shell.

It is not clear whether the remains of the interior had been swept away, or whether the ashes of an entire house had simply been blown away by the wind, but there were few signs that the rubble had ever been a family home.

As she walked past the van, a corner of elegant, decorative brickwork was seen still standing.

To the right was a section of concrete wall that had also survived the fire, although there was now nothing left to support it.

Crispy metal panels and bars appeared to lay over the axle on the foundation.

The house was on a small hill, where there were still some trees, because the water content in them can protect them from burning down completely.

A small brick wall marked the perimeter of the mound, although it was not clear whether it had been part of the ground floor of the house, or whether it was a wall surrounding the house.

As Jhené turned her camera further to the right, she came across a partially upright metal cage attached to a brick wall that housed charred air conditioning units.

She didn’t bother to speak on the video and just let the horrible images speak for themselves.

On Thursday, the singer and rapper had posted a video to her Instagram stories of the fire that engulfed her home as she narrowly escaped.

“My perfect little Pali dream,” she captioned a clip of a raging inferno bursting through her front window. ‘Sorry we couldn’t save you. Thanks for the memories and thank God no one was in there.”

She added that she was “praying” for others around her and “the whole world.”

Jhené wrote in an Instagram post that her house “burned to the ground with all our stuff in it.”

‘Grateful that we still have each other. Start from scratch. My heart is so heavy,” she added.

Aiko is the mother of two children: sixteen-year-old daughter Namiko, whom she shares with singer O’Ryan, and two-year-old son Noah, whom she shares with her partner, rapper Big Sean.

So far, Big Sean doesn’t appear to have posted anything publicly about the devastating fires in LA or about Aiko’s house.

Late last week, Jhené took vile commenters to task after they claimed she could afford to replace her home while other people in Los Angeles were in worse situations.

She tried to remind people that she was neither a superstar nor a mega-rich celebrity.

“The fact that some of you think I have Paris Hilton money is wild,” she said, referring to the heiress and reality star who lost her Malibu beach house in the inferno.

Aiko continued, “I don’t have it like that, but I do have a big, loving family that is worth more than anything.”

The LA fires started last week in the tony Pacific Palisades neighborhood before spreading north and west to Malibu and Calabasas.

A second fire started later further east in Altadena, which borders densely populated Pasadena.

Smaller fires broke out elsewhere in the city, including in the Hollywood Hills, although firefighters had better luck extinguishing the blazes quickly.