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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Joshua Jackson feels "incredibly lucky", despite losing his home in the Los Angeles wildfires

    The 'Doctor Odyssey' star's house in Topanga Canyon - which he lived in for the first eight years of his life and then bought as an adult in 2001 - has been destroyed in the devastating blazes and though he is sad to have lost the "beautiful" property, he is thankful that he, four-year-old daughter Juno, and the other people he cares about are safe and well.


    He told Deadline in a statement: "First and most importantly, all the people closest to me affected by the fire are ok. My daughter, my family, my neighbours all made it out safely.

    "Sadly my beautiful home did not survive the fires. But today, I feel incredibly lucky to be surrounded by the people I love."

    The 46-year-old actor - who has Juno with estranged wife Jodie Turner-Smith - was born in Vancouver but lived in Topanga until he was eight, when he returned to Canada following his parents' divorce.

    And the 'Dawson's Creek' star previously told how he found it "healing" to buy his childhood home and live there as an adult - particularly because his old bedroom had remained exactly the same.

    He previously told Mr. Porter magazine: "My father unfortunately was not a good father or a husband and exited the scene, but that house in Topanga was where everything felt simple, so it was a very healing thing for me to do.

    "There was a mural of a dragon on the wall in [my old] room that I couldn't believe was still there, years later.

    "The owner [who sold him the house] said, 'I knew it meant a lot to somebody and that they were going to come back for it some day.'"

    Joshua also said becoming a father himself has changed his priorities in "every possible way".

    He said: It's 100 per cent changed how I approach my work and my life. That has been made so clear to me in this past year.

    "For me to feel good about what I'm doing day to day, my family has to be the central focus."

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