Mel Gibson Reflects on Loss in Los Angeles Wildfires: A Strange Mixture of ‘Sadness’ and ‘Elation’

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Ingraham: “For those of us watching this from afar. Try to convey to us the feeling of seeing your home, your neighbor’s homes, and the community there at such a loss.”
GIBSON: “I mean, it’s — it’s tragic. It makes you really sad. I was actually, you know, there are neighbors I have that I was actually looking at them. I felt worse for them than I did for myself. I look at this, there is a strange mixture of sadness and almost kind of elation in a sense that I’m just — I count my blessings, you know, no matter what. These are things. And they may or may not be replaceable but they are only things. We are still here. I just kind of look at it almost in a weird kind of way a purification. But of course, it’s very really sad. And there were many things gone ablaze that I thought about that’s too bad, works of art, photographs, rare books, old books, some as old as 1600, like crazy, irreplaceable stuff. So, it is what it is, I guess. It was only a month ago that the flames threatened us 200 meters away on the other side and of course, the wind shifted and came in and whipped and got us from the other direction, so, it was interesting.”