'Where I Live Is On Fire': Jamie Lee Curtis Holds Back Tears On 'The Tonight Show'
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The actor had to be bleeped as she described the "gnarly" fires and lamented the "catastrophe" in her Los Angeles community.
Jamie Lee Curtis tried to keep it together as she spoke of the devastating wildfires in her Los Angeles neighborhood in an appearance on “The Tonight Show.”
“I’m literally just about to cry, mostly because of that beautiful welcome,” she told host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday. “As you know, where I live is on fire right now. Literally, the entire city of the Pacific Palisades is burning.”
“I flew here last night. I was on a plane, started getting texts, and it’s fucking gnarly, you guys,” she said. “It’s just a catastrophe in Southern California.”
“Everything,” she added. “The market I shop in, the schools my kids go to, friends — many, many, many, many friends now — have lost their homes. So it is, it’s a really awful situation.”
She said she intended to return home “first thing tomorrow” to be with family and assist friends, and encouraged viewers to support the American Red Cross and do “whatever you can do” to help, including giving blood and donating to animal shelters.