‘This Is Us’ star Milo Ventimiglia fights tears after home burns down in LA fires days before wife gives birth: ‘Your heart just breaks’

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in the horrific LA fires — just days before his wife is due to give birth. The “This Is Us” alum, 47, and his wife Jarah Mariano were forced to evacuate their home Tuesday after their neighborhood was deemed in the risk zone of the Palisades fire, which has burned nearly 20,000 acres. “You start thinking about all the memories and the different parts of the house and whatnot and then you see your neighbors’ houses and everything around and your heart just breaks,” he told CBS Evening News on Thursday.Ventimiglia, whose character also ironically lost his home in a fire, and his wife fled and watched on security cameras as flames engulfed their home.“I think there’s a kind of shock moment where you’re going, ‘Oh, this is real, this is happening,’” the “Gilmore Girls” alum told the outlet.“And at a certain point, we just turned it off.

What good is it to continue watching? We kind of accepted the loss.”The pair, who wed in 2023, grabbed ”everything they could think of” before leaving for refuge.

However, they were unable to save a lot of items, including their unborn baby’s crib which they had already built for the child’s nursery.“The whole thing was set up,” Ventimiglia said.Ventimiglia walked through the destruction and described where each household item used to stand.

The actor famously played Jack Pearson on “This Is Us” opposite Mandy Moore’s character, Rebecca Pearson.Jack and Rebecca — a married couple with three children — also lost their home in a fire on the hit television show.“It’s not lost on me, life imitating art,” Ventimiglia said of the parallel.Still, Ventimiglia is hopeful that they’ll be able to get their living arrangements back on track soon enough.“We got good friends, and we got good people we’re.