As wildfires rage in Los Angeles, Conan O’Brien says his house was spared after thinking, “our house is going to go.”
On his podcast, Need a friend podcast he’s been recording since the wildfires first broke out on January 7.
The 61-year-old recalled getting a call from his wife Liza about seeing “some smoke” at the time he had 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 been smoke, and we haven’t been evacuated,” he said. “It’s part of life in LA, so I didn’t think too much about it.”
“And then I went from here to, whatever, we went to a hotel, and I went to sleep that night and thought …” I’m pretty sure our house will go, “and it didn’t ,” Conan told.
His longtime assistant, Sona Movsesian, who also lost her home in the fires, said: “It’s our whole 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 looking.”
At least 27 people died in the wildfires, which have been called one of the most destructive in Los Angeles County history.
