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

Whereas showing on CNN on Wenesday, he described the wildfires ripping by means of 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 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 bought 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 publish 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 hearth and police depts doing their jobs so effectively. We’re secure and out,” he posted to X. “Can’t 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 imagine our pretty little dwelling within the hills held on this lengthy. It seems like shedding a liked one,” he wrote. “It exams your soul, shedding every thing directly, I have to say.”

Wednesday, he shared a publish 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 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 1 commenter mentioning the “irony” of him shedding his dwelling in a fireplace after voting for Donald Trump — who, the person famous, is “identified for his skepticism about local weather change.”

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