Ricki Lake is determined to rebuild her dream home.
The “Hairspray” actress vowed that she and her husband, Ross Burningham, would not sell their Malibu land after their home burned down in the United States earlier this month. Palisades Fire.
The 56-year-old revealed that it took more than seven years to build her home from the ground up, and that in the future she would “create something else that is just as magical.”
“My home in Malibu was a sanctuary, a hub for so many friends and loved ones. Too many meetings to count. Endless spaces on site to hang out, dance and play,” she wrote on Instagram on Monday. “It’s exhausting and paralyzing right now to try to figure out in my head how I’m going to do it all again… but I will.”
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Ricki Lake is determined to rebuild her dream home. (Ricki More/Instagram)
Since she revealed on social media that her house burned down, she has shared dozens of photos and videos of her modern ocean-view home, which had a pool, an ocean-view terrace and a manicured garden. She also added photos of her husband, dog and friends Rosie O’Donnell at the house.
Over the weekend, Lake explained that she has been staying at a friend’s guest house and that her life “feels very, very strange right now.”
“I’m so close to the full water line, and I’m numb too,” she said in a video. “I don’t feel anything. I can only describe what we are experiencing.”
The remains of Lake’s house. (Ricki More/Instagram)
“My home in Malibu was a sanctuary, a hub for so many friends and loved ones. Too many gatherings to count. Endless spaces on the property to hang out, dance and play. It’s exhausting and paralyzing right now trying to wrap my head around how I’m going to do it all again…..but I will.”
She said she can’t imagine what other people with young children, multiple pets or other complications go through after losing their homes.
Ricki Lake at her home in Malibu with her husband, Ross Burningham. (Ricki More/Instagram)
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“I can’t imagine the suffering that other people face. I just know my own suffering and hardship right now,” she explained in the video.
Lake said people have reached out to her to see how her family is doing, and she said, “To be honest, we’re meh.”
“It’s so incredibly depressing and sad and scary,” she said.
She added that she left her Malibu home “at the very last minute” because they planned to stay and fight the fire with special equipment they have, but it became too dangerous due to the wind and “we got out of there in a huge storm’. hast.”
Ricki Lake’s Malibu Garden. (Ricki More/Instagram)
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The former talk show host said there were so many things she would have loved to have taken with her, like her children’s baby albums, her grandparents’ albums and her wardrobe, but she was able to get a jacket that had a special meaning to her and that was made for her by a friend after she lost her second husband to suicide. The jacket is made from her late husband’s shirt.
I’m so happy I have it,” she said through tears while wearing the jacket in the video. “It’s one of the things I cherish the most and the fact that I still have it – it’s not at home, it doesn’t matter for everything we’ve lost, but I have this, and this really makes me whole very happy.”
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Lake with her beloved coat, which she managed to save from the fire. (Ricki More/Instagram)
She added: “I can’t handle the level of emotions that are going through my heart and soul and like I can’t cry anymore.”
She asked people to “please continue to keep us and all the people of LA in your thoughts,” she said, adding that it is “not a big prayer person” but that she has “prayed a lot these past few days.”
“My house was atmosphere,” she continued. ‘I plan to rebuild it. We are absolutely not selling that land. We’re going to build something else there. That land is sacred. That country is magical.’
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She added: “We are in deep mourning,” but “we are going to create something else that is just as magical.”
