In January 2025, wildfires raged through the greater Los Angeles area, leaving over 50,000 acres burned, over 200,000 people evacuated and 30 people dead.
General Hospitalstar Cameron Mathisonwas one of the celebrities who lost their home in the fire. On his April 14 appearance on Live with Kelly and Mark, he spoke in-depth about the loss and how resilient his children have been despite losing "every piece of evidence" of their childhood.
"It's just so… it's really truly hard to put into words if it hasn't happened to you," said Mathison. "So outrageously emotionally and logistically overwhelming and at the same time you think of the scope of it — thousands of people going through the same thing. It's been tough, but as you guys know, I'm positive, resilient. I'm trying to just do the next thing."
But he said it's been especially hard on his children, Leila, 21, and Lucas, 18, because just about every piece of their childhood memories is gone.
"The kids have been through it, and they were amazing. They are so strong…honestly, it broke their hearts. Their whole childhood, every piece of evidence of their life and my life was wiped out, so now there's no birth photos, there's no photos of their childhood…obviously, there's new memories and this is a new chapter, but it's also important for us to grieve," said the Hallmark channel star.
He added, "They're going to come out of this stronger. They already have and I'm so impressed with their resilience."
Mathison also said that the night of the fires, he thought there was no way the fire would reach their home, so now in retrospect, he wishes he would have tried to grab more of their keepsakes.
"Our house was so far from the edge of the mountain that I just didn't think it was realistic that the fires would come down that far…I went back to get passports and a few photo albums, but I wish…I wish, obviously in retrospect, I would've grabbed so much more," said Mathison.
Shortly after the fire, Mathison's estranged with Vanessa shared a video of the devastation and wrote that it's the "irreplaceable items that hurts the most."
"The grief of losing our home is devastating and crushing. Our home was not just walls and things. It was the physical representation of the deep love we have for our children. It was the house where our children grew up," wrote Vanessa, adding, "The loss of irreplaceable items hurts the most… the kid’s baby photos, their yearly school photos, elementary school art projects the kids gave to us for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, portraits we took when both kids were 5 days old. the journals we all wrote during our family vacations, Leila’s song writing journal she’s been working on since 7th grade, and every single beautifully written card Lucas and Leila ever gave us was lost…and each day we remember more things that are gone. We have come together as a family to heal. As our son, Lucas, said four days after the fire…'We’re going to be ok❤️❤️❤️.'"
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