Jimmy Kimmel fights back tears as he addresses the ‘terrible’ fires in Los Angeles
Jimmy Kimmel was overcome with emotion, addressing the Wildfires in Los Angeles.
The Jimmy Kimmel Live! The 57-year-old host returned to his ABC late-night slot on Monday, January 13, and opened the show with an emotional monologue about the fires that started earlier this month and continue to burn, destroying homes and displacing thousands.
“It’s been a very scary, very stressful, very strange week here in Los Angeles, where we work, where we live, where our kids go to school,” Kimmel said. “We’re back in our studio that we had to evacuate.”
“There’s our building, El Capitan,” he said, showing footage of a fire outside the studio where the show is filmed. “How close this fire was here to our theater. Many of us had to leave our homes in a hurry. Some of our colleagues lost their homes. It was terrible.”
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Kimmel continued, “Everybody who lives in this town knows someone — most of us, a few people — families, friends, co-workers, neighbors whose homes have burned down. And the truth is, we don’t even know if it’s over.”
Although the fires continue to ravage Los Angeles, the comedian said he was glad to see so many people come together during the tragedy.
“I think I speak for all of us when I say it was a sickening, shocking and horrible experience. But in many ways, it was also a great experience because we see our countrymen coming together to support each other again,” he said. “People who lost their own homes were volunteering in parking lots helping others who had lost theirs.”
Kimmel noted that his Jimmy Kimmel Live! partner Guillermo Rodriguez“almost had to live with me” because he was threatened with eviction from his home.
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The host of the late-night talk show said that there were about 20 people with him in total who were hiding from the fires. (Kimmel and his wife Molly McNearney they have two children, Jane, 10, and Billy, 7. He also has two grown children, Kati33 and Kevin31 years old, with ex-wife Gina Maddy.)
“19 people and four dogs lived with us. It’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced,” Kimmel said. “It’s so weird looking around your house and deciding what you want to get and then fighting with your kids about what they want to get. We had to leave a lot of stuffed animals.”
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