James Woods Fights Back Tears On CNN After Losing His L.A. Home From Wildfires: “It’s All Gone”

Vampires actor James Woods could not hold back his emotion during a recent appearance on CNN amid the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles.

Woods’ home was destroyed in the fires, which are raging through southern California. The actor became teary as he opened up about the devastation that swept his neighborhood of Pacific Palisades amongst others and has now forced at least 30,000 people to evacuate the area, per The Washington Post.

“One day you’re swimming in the pool and the next day it’s all gone,” he said through tears during an appearance today on CNN.

He then recounted a touching moment he and his wife had with her eight-year-old niece, who offered them her piggy bank to rebuild their home.

Woods apologized for becoming distraught on the air. “I thought I would be stronger than this,” he admitted.

CNN’s Pamela Brown offered him some comforting words. “Strength is not measured by whether you hold in crying,” she said. “Strength is what you are doing now in helping your neighbors and shining a light on the great, amazing work of all those firefighters and emergency crews.”

During his emotional interview, the Hercules star also shared that he helped his 94-year-old neighbor get to safety as they were evacuating. “There was so much chaos, it was like an inferno,” he said of their neighborhood. “Every house was on fire around us.”

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Woods has been posting extensively about the wildfires on X, sharing harrowing images from his neighborhood and backyard of the ongoing fires. The actor shared yesterday (Jan. 7) at 3:48 p.m. ET that he safely evacuated from his home before later sharing footage of a home on fire just “two houses” away from his residence.

“We renovated a home after COVID and just finished last month,” he later wrote on X. “To all the lovely people offering care and love, I’ll say this. There is no possession as priceless as friends and good neighbors during a tragedy. I can’t believe the blessings we enjoy, and I am humbly grateful.”

In another post, he wrote, “It tests your soul, losing everything at once, I must say.”

The wildfires are still raging on in Los Angeles, impacting at least 2,000 acres and leaving two dead, according to The Washington Post.