Tyra Banks has joined the list of celebrities who lost their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires. Tyra remained silent when her $4.8 million Malibu oceanfront house went up in flames recently.
The emotional media star told the Australian breakfast show “Sunrise” that her beautiful house was destroyed in the wildfires.
Tyra’s luxury beachfront home is seen in an aerial photo dated March 18, 2023.
“I’m one of them. I lost my house,” she said when asked if she knew of anyone who had lost their home in the L.A. wildfires.
“I haven’t really talked about it but, yeah, I have,” Banks continued. She explained why she remained silent while others revealed their homes were destroyed.
“I just didn’t want to pull a lot of attention to me, I feel that there’s a lot of people that need that attention, so I haven’t really talked about it, but I can’t sit here and not tell the truth, so yeah we lost our house.”
Tyra shares a son, York, 9, with longtime boyfriend Louis Bélanger-Martin. They were staying at a friend’s house in Australia when she learned her Malibu beach house had burned to the ground.
“We were celebrating and just having fun. I kept checking my phone, not for my house, but just for friends and family,” she said. “I was just making sure they were evacuating and everything.”
“Then, I asked my partner, ‘I’m seeing something here. What do you think?’ And he said [she nods].”
Tyra added she “pulled it together.” “I didn’t say anything to my friends. I just stayed in that moment. Then we went home and we cried. We had our moment.”
The “America’s Next Top Model” veteran said that most of their mementos and important documents were with them in Australia or New York due to them splitting their time between the two places.
“So, I didn’t lose those thank goodness,” she continued.
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