Lake Ricki she is determined to rebuild her dream home.
The “Hairspray” actress vowed that she and her husband, Ross Burningham, would not sell their Malibu land after their home burned down earlier this month in Palisade Fire.
The 56-year-old revealed that her home took more than seven years to build from the ground up, and she will be creating “something else just as magical” in the future.
“My Malibu home has been a haven, a hub for so many friends and loved ones. Too many gatherings to count. Endless areas on the property to hang out, dance and play,” she wrote on Instagram Monday. “Right now it’s exhausting and paralyzing trying to think about how I’m going to do it all again… but I will.”
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Ricki Lake is determined to rebuild her dream home. (Ricki Lake/Instagram)
Since revealing on social media that her house had burned down, she shared dozens of photos and videos of her modern ocean-view home, which featured a pool, ocean-view deck and manicured garden. She also included photos of her husband, dog and friends Rosie O’Donnell in the house.
Over the weekend, Lake explained that she was staying at a friend’s guest house and that her life “feels really, really weird right now.”
“I’m this close to the full plumbing, and it’s like I’m numb,” she said in the video. “I feel nothing. I can only describe what we are experiencing.”
The remains of Lake’s house. (Ricki Lake/Instagram)
“My Malibu home has been a haven, a hub for so many friends and loved ones. Too many gatherings to count. Endless areas on the property to hang out, dance and play. Right now it’s exhausting and paralyzing trying to wrap my head around how I’m going to 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. (Ricki Lake/Instagram)
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“I can’t imagine the suffering that other people face, only now do I know my own suffering and difficulties,” she explained in the video.
Lake said people have been reaching out to see how her family is doing, and she said, “To be honest, we’re bad.”
“It’s so bloody depressing and sad and scary,” she said.
She added that she got out of her Malibu home “at the last minute” because they planned to stay and fight the fire with the special equipment they have, but it got too dangerous with the winds and “we got out of there in a huge hurry.”
Ricki Lake’s Malibu Garden. (Ricki Lake/Instagram)
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The former talk show host said there were so many things she wanted to take with her, including her children’s albums, her grandparents’ albums and her wardrobe, but she managed to get hold of a coat that has special meaning to her and was made for a friend after she lost her second husband. because of suicide. The coat was made from her late husband’s shirt.
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I’m so happy to have him,” she said through tears while wearing the coat in the video. but I have this, and it makes me really, really, really happy.”
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Lake with her beloved coat that she managed to save from the fire. (Ricki Lake/Instagram)
She added: “I can’t deal with the level of emotion going through my heart and soul and it’s like I can’t cry anymore.”
She asked people to “please keep us in your thoughts and all the people in LA,” she said, adding that she’s “not a big prayer” but has been “praying a lot these past few days.”
“My house was a vibe,” she continued. “I plan to rebuild. We will definitely not sell that land. We will build something different there. That land is sacred. That land is magical.”
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She added: “We are in deep mourning,” but “we will create something else just as magical.”
