Mel Gibson’s $14.5m Malibu mansion burned down while he was filming Joe Rogan’s podcast as actor recalls returning home to ‘nothing’ – as devastating wildfires continue to rage through LA
Mel Gibson recalled returning home to ‘nothing’ after his $14.5million Malibu mansion burned down while he was filming Joe Rogan’s podcast in Austin, Texas.
The 69-year-old actor shared his devastation after his home was razed by the horrific wildfires, in an emotional interview on NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas Reports.
While he was filming the podcast, Mel said he knew his neighbourhood was on fire and wondered if his home was still standing.
Mel began: ‘Obviously, it’s kind of devastating. It’s emotional.’
He added: ‘I was doing the Rogan podcast… And [I was] kind of ill at ease while we were talking, because I knew my neighbourhood 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. I went home and I said to myself, well, at least I haven’t got any of those pesky plumbing problems anymore.
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Mel Gibson, 69, recalled returning home to ‘nothing’ after his $14.5million Malibu mansion burned down while he was filming Joe Rogan’s podcast in Austin, Texas
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Mel has been trying to sell his sprawling mansion for years and even knocked $3million off the listing price
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‘I had a lot of personal things there that, you know, I can’t get back…
‘All kinds of stuff, everything from photographs to files to, you know, you know, just personal things that I had from over the years, and clothing, you know, pretty cool stuff, you know, but you know that can all be replaced.
‘These are only things. And the good, the good news is that, you know, those in my family and those I love are all well, and we’re all happy and healthy and out of harm’s way, that’s all I can care about, really.’
Mel has been trying to sell his sprawling mansion for years, and even knocked $3million off the listing price.
The sprawling property, built in 1996, was purchased by the Oscar winner in 2008 for a cool $11.5 million and boasted five-bedroom, as well as a majestic old world feel including a castle style turret.
Mel shared disturbing visions of fire and brimstone when he appeared on the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
The actor-turned-filmmaker warned the controversial podcaster that society was heading toward a ‘collapse’ while discussing the fires that have devastated several neighbourhoods around Greater Los Angeles and left other celebrities without homes.
Mel also included plenty of criticism for California Governor Gavin Newsom for failing to ‘take care of the forest and maintain the forest,’ though the current fires all started in urban environments.
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The actor said he is ‘devastated’ that his home has been torn down by the horror wildfires in an emotional interview on NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas Reports
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‘Obviously, it’s kind of devastating. It’s emotional,’ the actor said of the loss of his home
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‘I had a lot of personal things there that, you know, I can’t get back… ‘All kinds of stuff, everything from photographs to files to, you know, you know, just personal things that I had from over the years, and clothing, you know, pretty cool stuff, you know, but you know that can all be replaced,’ he said
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Mel has been trying to sell his sprawling mansion for years, and even knocked $3million off the listing price
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According to the Passion Of The Christ director, ‘All those earmarks, the precursors of a collapse, they’re present in our time. It doesn’t take long.’
Mel referred in his chat to Jared Diamond’s 2011 book Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed.
‘It says all the things you need for a civilization to cave in and collapse,’ Gibson said of the book. ‘It’s an interesting observation. And we’re no smarter than our grandparents.’
The Mad Max star said his son Milo — who is in the volunteer fire brigade in Malibu — sent him a video of his neighbourhood ‘in flames,’ which made it resemble an ‘inferno.’
He isn’t in any danger of being homeless, though, as he boasted he has another home in Costa Rica.
‘I love it there,’ he said after Joe asked if the ongoing fires would be the final straw for him to finally move out of California.
Later, Mel joked that he might get ‘a new house’ out of the crisis.
Ironically, the restaurant and bar where Mel got drunk before his infamous antisemitic rant in 2006, Moonshadows Malibu, was a victim of the blaze, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
