Hollywood star and director Mel Gibson gave NewsNation a tour of the remains of his Malibu home on Wednesday after it was destroyed in the California wildfires.
“It’s pretty well burnt,” remarked Gibson as he showed NewsNation’s Brian Entin around the burnt rubble. “If there is anything there, it’s not much use, I would say. Who knows? I opened a safe; everything in there was just–.”
Pointing to a burnt-out section with just the remains of two cars left, Gibson said, “Look at this. This is crispy. This was a garage and a guest house apartment on top.”
“It’s still hot,” he remarked, touching one of the gutted cars. “Wow, right down to the bones, huh?”
Leading Entin his crew through a scorched archway, Gibson warned, “Watch out for roofing nails. Okay, watch your step in here ’cause it’s ugly.”
“There’s a lot of nails, you see? It’s a perfect thing to step on, right? Kind of like a Vietnamese booby trap,” he continued. “Water heaters. It’s just everything’s cake. You’d have to dig stuff out I’m sure, and there may be stuff in there that’s, you know, salvageable. I doubt it. It’s pretty dark.”
Entin apologized, “I’m sorry, standing here at your
“No, that’s okay,” replied Gibson. “You know what? I’m okay with it. I’m okay. You don’t look back; you look forward.”
Gibson lost the majority of his possessions in the wildfire last week, which took place as he was in Austin, Texas making an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience.
“I was in Austin, I was doing the Rogan podcast,” he told NewsNation last week. “And I was kind of ill at ease while we were talking because I knew my neighborhood was on fire, so I thought, ‘I wonder if my place is still there.’ But when I got home, sure enough, it wasn’t there.”
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