Milo Ventimiglia Notes Devastating Parallel Between His Malibu Home Burning Down And ‘This Is Us’ Plot Line: “It’s Not Lost On Me”

Milo Ventimiglia is mourning the loss of his Malibu home amidst the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

The This Is Us alum visited his home in Malibu during a CBS Evening News segment on Thursday (Jan. 9), which was destroyed in the wildfires ravaging the area. As for what it was like seeing the destruction in person, Ventimiglia described the feeling as “heavy.”

“You know, you start thinking about, man, it hits you so quick,” he continued. “You start thinking about all the memories in the different parts of the house and what-not, and then you see your neighbors’ houses and everything kind of around, and your heart just breaks.”

Ventimiglia, who starred as Jack Pearson on the hit NBC drama, is seemingly facing a similar tribulation as the character he portrayed across all six seasons of the series. In the show, the Pearson family home caught on fire, resulting in Jack passing away from a heart attack due to smoke inhalation.

“It’s not lost on me,” he explained of the shocking parallel, “life imitating art.”

Fortunately, Ventimiglia is safe, praising his “good friends” and the “good people [they’re] working with,” as well as his pregnant wife, Jarah Mariano, noting that his “wife, baby, and dog are most important.” As highlighted by CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, Ventimiglia and his wife “grabbed everything they could think of,” though Ventimiglia got choked up when revealing that they had a crib “all set up” that was lost in the fire.

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Ventimiglia said that he and his wife watched the fires overtake their home on their security cameras, telling CBS Evening News that “there’s a kind of shock moment where you’re going, ‘Oh this is real and this is happening.'”

“And then at a certain point we just turned it off because what good is it to continue watching,” he added. “We kind of accepted the loss.”

As noted by Entertainment Weekly, his This Is Us on-screen wife, Mandy Moore, shared that her home in Altadena was also impacted by the wildfires, penning on Instagram on Thursday, in part, that her house is “not livable but mostly intact.”

Jamie Lee Curtis, who became emotional while discussing the wildfires on Wednesday night’s (Jan. 8) episode of The Tonight Show, announced on Instagram this week that she and her family are donating $1 million to the wildfire relief efforts.