Tori Spelling Reveals Personal Items She Took While Evacuating Home Amid California Wildfires
Tori Spelling is detailing the experience of evacuating her home amid the California wildfires.
The Beverly Hills, 90210 actress, 51, recalled having "30 minutes or less" to grab what she could as she and her five kids, along with their pets, fled as multiple fires broke out across Southern California on Jan. 7.
Explaining that she "froze" in her closet as her daughter Stella, 16, helped the rest of her kids (Liam, 17, Hattie, 13, Finn, 12, and Beau, 7) get their things, Spelling said she couldn't process what she should take. (Spelling shares her five kids with ex Dean McDermott.)
"Here’s me, self-professed hoarder my whole life, and … it could be gone,” she said during the Friday, Jan. 17, episode of her MisSpelling podcast. “In the moment, I was like, ‘I don’t know what to take.'”
The actress went on to tell listeners that she ended up grabbing a jacket from her private elementary school, John Thomas Dye, that she's had since 1985 and no longer fits as her "one memory," along with her contacts, a seashell, crystals for "good energy," water, dog food and photographs.
“I’d rather my kids grab things they want than me. Who cares about me? … I looked down at my Louboutins and my Balenciaga shoes, and I said, ‘What does it matter?'" she continued, noting that "we shoved everyone in the car" as swiftly as they could.
"I said, ‘Listen, everyone has a different way of handling things and what’s important to them. If we can get it in the car, let’s get it in the car,'” she said. “Then we got in the car. We packed everyone in. Everyone was saying, ‘I can’t move. I can’t breathe.’ It was stuffed.”
In the end, Spelling remembered thinking, "It's just stuff," as the family "drove right through the fire" to safety.
Spelling's mom, Candy Spelling, lost her Malibu home of 50 years in the fires, her friend confirmed earlier this month. Other celebrities who lost their homes include Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, Mandy Moore, Miles Teller, Eugene Levy and more.
The fires, including the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire, have scorched over 40,000 acres since sweeping across SoCal earlier this month. Over 12,000 homes, buildings and other structures have been destroyed, and tens of thousands of residents have been displaced. At least 27 people are dead, according to CBS News.
Related: How to Help Those Affected by the California Wildfires: Resources, Donations, More
