The What Women Want actor revealed that the Malibu home that he'd lived in for nearly 15 years burned to the ground amid the Los Angeles fires.
"You live there for a long time, and you had all your stuff," Gibson reflected during a Jan. 9 phone interview on NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas Reports. "You remember George Carlin talking about your stuff? I had my stuff there, and it’s all like, I’ve been relieved from the burden of my stuff, because it’s all in cinders."
At the time the fires broke out, the 69-year-old had just flown to Austin, Texas, to record an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
"I was doing the Rogan podcast," Gibson said, noting his girlfriend Rosalind Ross and son Lars, 7, evacuated soon after the fire started. "And [I was] kind of ill at ease while we were talking, because I knew my neighborhood was on fire, so I thought, 'I wonder if my place is still there.'"
But when I got home, sure enough, it wasn’t there," he continued. "I went home and I said to myself, 'Well, at least I haven’t got any of those pesky plumbing problems anymore.'"
The Patriot star clarified, however, that his family's chickens miraculously survived amid the devastation.
"It was amazing," he marveled. "They were fine. We gave them some grain and some water and they were happy, they were laying eggs. They weren't roast chickens."
Gibson went on to detail the destruction of his house and surrounding neighborhood, saying that he'd "never seen a place so perfectly burnt."
"Ed Harris, the actor who lived down the street, I think his place is gone," he added. "And many of my friends up and down the street...The vehicles were gone, everything. It was completely toasted. I've never seen such a complete burn."
As for what he and his family will do next, the dad of nine wasn't quite sure.
"I don't know. I'll clean it up, because it's toxic," he mused. "Of course, the land is beautiful. It's a beautiful ocean view. Hey, anyone want to buy the land?"
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