As wildfires rage in Los Angeles, Conan O’Brien says his house was spared after thinking, “our house will go.”
On his podcast, Needs A Friend podcast, which he recorded since the wildfires first erupted on Jan. 7.
The 61-year-old recalled he got a call from his wife Liza about seeing “some smoke” at the time he was having a meeting with the writers for his Oscar-hosting gig.
“I remember thinking, ‘Well, we’ve been through this before.’ We’ve been evacuated. There’s also been smoke, and we haven’t been evacuated,” he shared. “It’s part of life in L.A., so I wasn’t thinking that much about it.”
“And so I went from here to, whatever, we went to a hotel, and I went to sleep that night thinking . . . ‘I’m pretty sure that our house will go,’ and it did not,” Conan recounted.
His longtime assistant, Sona Movsesian, who also lost her home in the fires, said, “It’s our entire street; our whole neighborhood has just been destroyed. It looks like it’s hard for me to look at pictures. It looks really almost apocalyptic.”
At least 27 people died in the wildfires, which have been called one of the most destructive in the history of Los Angeles County.
