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

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 sooner or later you are within the pool and the following its all gone,” Woods stated with each his palms 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 stated, after he acquired choked up.

Woods and hundreds of others have 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 houses round him started to burn down.

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

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

“I couldn’t imagine our beautiful little dwelling within the hills held on this lengthy. It seems like dropping a liked one,” he wrote. “It assessments your soul, dropping the whole lot 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 completely different the view was for him when he needed to evacuate.

The actor — who’s a recognized Republican — additionally shared his opinion on who’s responsible for the hearth’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 person famous, is “recognized for his skepticism about local weather change.”

“The fireplace shouldn’t 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 does not perceive the very first thing about fireplace administration and the opposite cannot fill the water reservoirs,” he added.