Milo Ventimiglia became emotional when he revealed that his Malibu home was completely destroyed in Wildfires in Los Angeles – eerie similar circumstances to his This is us hero, Jack Pearson.
Ventimilia, whose wife Rob Mariano41, f nine months pregnantvisited the charred remains of the couple’s former home before it burned to the ground CBS News on Thursday, January 9.
Speaking of CBS News as he surveyed the damage, Ventimiglia, 47, admitted the loss felt “heavy.”
“You start thinking about all the memories in different parts of the house and whatnot, and then you see your neighbor’s houses and everything around and your heart just breaks,” he said.
After avoiding Milo Ventimiglia’s acting projects for years, his wife Jara Mariano recently started This Is Us. “So my wife finally started watching it,” Ventimiglia, 47, joked during the episode of Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown and Chris Sullivan This Was Us on Tuesday, October 15. “She has hardly ever seen anything that I have ever (…)
The The Gilmore Girls The alum knew their house was no longer standing before the visit, as he had watched it burn via home security cameras after he was evacuated on Tuesday.
“It’s kind of a shocking moment when you go, it’s real, it’s happening, and at a certain point you just turn it off,” he said. “What good is it to keep watching? We kind of accepted the loss.”
Coincidentally, one of Ventimiglia’s most famous characters, This is usJack died of smoke inhalation after a clay pot burned his family’s home to the ground.
“You know, that’s not lost on me, life imitating art,” Ventimiglia said CBS News of the similarity between the fictional scenes and the circumstances of his real life.
Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore.
(Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)While Ventimiglia and Mariano lost most of their belongings in the fire, including a crib for their unborn baby, who was due any day now, the actor is thankful that the essentials survived.
“We’ve got good friends and good people to work with and we’re going to make it.” Wife, baby and dog, the most important,” Ventimiglia said.
the couple which were first connected in 2022 and married in 2023, revealed in September 2024 that they were expecting their first child together.
“Baby on board!” Mariano wrote via an Instagram post at the time, sharing maternity photos while sitting on a surfboard.
Getty Images (2) Milo Ventimiglia offered insight into his love story with wife Jara Mariano. The couple initially sparked romance rumors in 2022, but kept their relationship out of the limelight. Us Weekly broke the news in October 2023 that Ventimiglia and Mariano secretly exchanged vows in a private wedding ceremony among family and (…)
Ventimiglia played Jack opposite Mandy Moore like his wife Rebecca Pearson This is uswhich ran from 2016 to 2022.
The actor revealed that Mariano had just recently started watching the emotional series during an appearance on the That Was Us podcast in October 2024.
“She can separate Jack from me, but she just cries more,” he said with a laugh. “It’s one of those things. She just cries and accepts it. I’m not harassing her; I’m not asking her, “Hey, tell me about this character, this scene, tell me stuff.” I’m waiting for her to want to talk to me about it.
