James Woods has revealed that his house is “still standing,” after indicating earlier this week that he’d lost his home in the fires raging across Los Angeles, in what he calls “a miracle.”
“A miracle has happened. We managed to get to our property and our home, that we were told is gone forever, is still standing,” Woods wrote on X Friday, sharing a video from his deck. “In this hellish landscape ‘standing’ is relative, but smoke and other damage is not like the utter destruction around us.”
Woods shared the news about his house when he returned to his neighborhood. The actor also posted photos and videos of the devastation all around him, including what looked like charred and destroyed structures, which he said were his neighbors’ homes.
He also shared a video of one street where one side seemed unaffected by the fires with the other side destroyed.
“While we rejoice to find our house intact, in the midst of a hellscape like this, you can only think of your neighbors,” Woods wrote. “I was so certain our house was gone a day ago, but the fickle finger of fate decided otherwise.”
Indeed, he said the wreckage around him made it difficult to celebrate that he hadn’t lost his home.
“So many beautiful messages from all of you. I’m so happy and grateful, but honestly the entire area looks like the dark side of the moon,” he wrote. “It’s so fundamentally gut-wrenching and upsetting, it’s almost hard to celebrate the joyous news that our home survived.”
Woods had indicated earlier in the week that his home had burned down. He posted a video on X very early Wednesday morning, writing, “I took this last night from our beautiful little home in the Palisades. Now all the fire alarms are going off at once remotely.” And he added: “It tests your soul, losing everything at once, I must say.”
In a live interview on CNN later that day, Woods said his entire street was burning down, but highlighted how one neighbor was able to save an elderly resident with dementia shortly before that man’s house burned down.
“There was so much chaos, it was like an inferno. Every house was on fire around us,” he said of fleeing his home. “We were evacuated with the clothes on our back.”
Numerous Hollywood stars have lost their homes in the wildfires, including Anthony Hopkins, Billy Crystal, Mel Gibson, Jeff Bridges, Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Paris Hilton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Diane Warren and Cary Elwes.
