James Woods Breaks Down In Tears on CNN After Evacuating Residence In Hearth

Whereas showing on CNN on Wenesday, he described the wildfires ripping via the southern a part of the state, forcing him to evacuate from his dwelling in Pacific Palisades.

“I am sorry, it is simply at some point you are within the pool and the subsequent its all gone,” Woods mentioned with each his fingers on his brow.

With tears in his eyes, he then recalled how his spouse Sara Miller-Woods’s 8-year-old niece pulled out her “little piggy financial institution for us to rebuild our home.” His tears got here after he shared the identical anecdote on X, including, “Some issues will make a grown man cry.”

“I am sorry, I believed I used to be stronger than this,” he mentioned, after he acquired choked up.

Woods and 1000’s of others had been ordered to evacuate the fires ravage Los Angeles suburbs with zero containment as of Wednesday afternoon.

Woods started put up movies of the encroaching fires pretty early within the day on Tuesday, earlier than saying he was “leaving” the realm as properties round him started to burn down.

“We had been blessed to have LA hearth and police depts doing their jobs so effectively. We’re secure and out,” he posted to X. “Cannot converse extra extremely of the LA hearth and LAPD.”

He continued sharing footage from his safety cameras, earlier than saying his neighbor’s dwelling was on hearth. In a single day, he shared that “all of the smoke detectors are going off in our home,” an indication that his home was presumably succumbing to the fireplace.

“I couldn’t consider our pretty little dwelling within the hills held on this lengthy. It seems like dropping a cherished one,” he wrote. “It checks your soul, dropping all the things without delay, I have to say.”

Wednesday, he shared a put up on X together with a video trying over the bay and houses within the space at sundown earlier this week, noting simply how totally different the view was for him when he needed to evacuate.

The actor — who’s a identified Republican — additionally shared his opinion on who’s responsible for the fireplace’s unfold on social media, sharing a screenshot of an article claiming LA Mayor Karen Bas lower funding on the LAFD.

He additionally responded to at least one commenter mentioning the “irony” of him dropping his dwelling in a hearth after voting for Donald Trump — who, the consumer famous, is “identified for his skepticism about local weather change.”

“The fireplace will not be from ‘local weather change,'” Woods wrote. “It is as a result of liberal idiots such as you elect liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass.”

“One would not perceive the very first thing about hearth administration and the opposite cannot fill the water reservoirs,” he added.