Milo Ventimiglia got emotional as he revealed that his Malibu home was completely destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires — in circumstances eerily similar to those at his home. It’s us character, Jack Pearson.
Ventimiglia, whose wife Jarah Mariano41-year-old, nine months pregnant, visited the charred remains of what was once the couple’s home before it burned to the ground with CBS News on Thursday January 9.
Talk to CBS News As he surveyed the damage, Ventimiglia, 47, admitted the loss was “heavy.”
“You start thinking about all the memories in different parts of the house and so on, and then you see your neighbors’ houses and everything going on around and your heart breaks,” he said.
THE Gilmore Girls A former student knew their house was no longer standing before the visit because he saw it burning via security cameras after it was evacuated Tuesday.
“It’s kind of that shock moment where you realize it’s real, it’s happening and at some point you turn it off,” he said. “What’s the point of continuing to watch?” We kind of accepted the loss.
Coincidentally, one of Ventimiglia’s most famous people, It’s us‘Jack died from smoke inhalation after a slow cooker burned down his family’s home.
“You know, it doesn’t escape me, life imitating art,” Ventimiglia said. CBS News of the similarity between the fictional scenes and its real circumstances.
While Ventimiglia and Mariano lost most of their belongings in the fire, including a crib for their unborn baby who is expected to be born any day now, the actor is grateful that the most important things have survived.
“We have good friends and good people that we work with and we will get through it. Wife, baby and dog, the most important,” Ventimiglia said.
The couple, who first tied the knot 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.
Ventimiglia played Jack opposite Mandy Moore as his wife Rebecca Pearson in It’s uswhich ran from 2016 to 2022.
The actor revealed that Mariano 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,” he says, laughing. “It’s one of those things. She just cries and understands. I don’t harass her; I don’t ask him, ‘Hey, so tell me about this character, this scene, tell me stuff.’ I’m waiting for her to want to talk to me about it.