Ricky Lake She is determined to rebuild her dream home.
The “Hairspray” actress has vowed that she and her husband, Ross Burningham, will not sell their Malibu land after their home burned down earlier this month in Malibu. Palisades fire.
The 56-year-old revealed that it took more than seven years to build her home from the ground up, and that she will create “something else with the same magic.”
“My Malibu home has been a sanctuary and hub for so many friends and loved ones. There are too many gatherings to count. Endless areas in the house to hang, dance and play,” she wrote on Instagram on Monday. “It's exhausting and paralyzing right now trying to figure out how I'm going to do this again…but I will.”
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Ricki Lake is determined to rebuild her dream home. (Rikki Lake/Instagram)
Since revealing on social media that her house burned down, she's shared dozens of photos and videos of her modern oceanfront home, which featured a pool, an oceanfront balcony, and a well-tended garden. She also included pictures of her husband, her dog, and her friends, such as Rosie O'Donnell At home.
Over the weekend, Lake explained that she was staying at a friend's guest house and that her life “feels really weird right now.”
“I'm close to full waterworks, and I'm numb too,” she said in a video. “I can't feel anything. I can only describe what we are experiencing.”
Remains of a lake house. (Rikki Lake/Instagram)
“My house in Malibu has been a sanctuary, a hub for so many friends and loved ones. There are too many gatherings to count. Endless spaces on the property to hang, dance and play. It's exhausting and paralyzing right now trying to cover my head.” About how I would do it all again…but I will.”
She said she can't imagine what other people with young children, multiple pets or other complications are going through after losing their homes.
Ricki Lake at her home in Malibu with her husband, Ross Burningham. (Rikki Lake/Instagram)
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She explained in the video: “I cannot imagine the suffering that others face, I only know my own suffering and mine now.”
Lake said people have been reaching out to see how her family is doing. “To be honest, we're doing good,” she said.
“It's very frustrating, sad and scary,” she said.
She added that she left her home in Malibu “at the last minute” because they planned to stay and fight the fire with their special equipment, but it became very dangerous with the wind and “we got out of there in a huge crowd.” hurry.”
Malibu Park at Ricky Lake. (Rikki Lake/Instagram)
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The former talk show host said there were a lot of things she wished she had taken, like her children's albums, her grandparents' albums and her wardrobe, but she was able to get a coat that had special meaning to her and was designed specifically for her. She was given by a friend after she lost her second husband to suicide. The coat is made from her late husband's shirt.
“I'm so happy I got it,” she said through tears as she wore the coat in the video. “It's one of the things I cherish most and the fact that I still have it – it's not at home, it doesn't make me feel good.” “We're making up for everything we lost, but I have this, and it makes me really, really happy.”
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Lake with her beloved coat that she managed to save from the fire. (Rikki Lake/Instagram)
She added: “I cannot deal with the level of emotions going through my heart and soul, as if I can no longer cry.”
She asked people to “please continue to keep us in your thoughts and in the thoughts of everyone in Los Angeles,” adding that it was “not a big prayer,” but that she had been “praying a lot these past few days.”
“My house was very lively,” she continued. “I plan to rebuild. We're definitely not selling that land. We're going to build something different there. That land is sacred. That land is magical.”
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“We are in deep mourning,” she added, but “we are going to create something else just as magical.”
