‘This Is Us’ star Milo Ventimiglia chokes back tears after home burns down in wildfire days before wife gives birth
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Milo Ventimiglia said he feels “heavy” while seeing the remains of his Malibu, Calif., home, which burned to the ground in the ongoing Palisades Fire.

The “This Is Us” alum described the property as “toast” as he processed in the damage during an interview with CBS News on Thursday.

“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 said while holding back tears.

Ventimiglia and his pregnant wife, Jarah Mariano, evacuated their house on Tuesday as the flames rapidly spread through their neighborhood.

“I think there’s a kind of shock moment where you’re going, ‘Oh, this is real, this is happening,’” the actor, 47, said of watching his home being engulfed by flames on security cameras.

“And at a certain point, we just turned it off. What good is it to continue watching? We kind of accepted the loss.”

Ventimiglia and Mariano — who is due to give birth any day — grabbed ”everything they could think of” while evacuating. However, they still lost a lot, including their baby’s crib.

“The whole thing was set up,” the “Gilmore Girls” alum sadly told the reporter of the nursery.

The father-to-be 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 after the tragedy.

Despite the blaze reducing his home to ash and debris, the actor has all he needs to persevere.

“We got good friends, and we got good people we’re working with, and we’ll make do,” he said. “Wife and baby and dog, most important.”

Meanwhile, Moore was fortunate not to lose her home in Altadena, Calif., after she was forced to evacuate due to the deadly Eaton Fire.

Ventimiglia and Mariano secretly tied the knot in 2023, but did not announce the news until months later.

The couple had an intimate ceremony with their loved ones and have remained relatively private about their romance.

Mariano took to Instagram in September 2024 to reveal they were expecting their first child together.

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