This Thursday, January 9, 2025, in an Instagram story, Joy Hallyday reacted to the terrible fires ravaging Los Angeles and which destroyed the family home. It was his mother, Laeticia Hallyday who, a little earlier in the day, posted a heartbreaking message to announce the terrible news.
Since January 7, 2025, Los Angeles has been plagued by deadly fires which have already killed five people. In total, 100,000 people had to leave their homes and new fires broke out. The center of Hollywood was evacuated due to a nearby fire and entire neighborhoods went up in smoke, such as Pacific Palisades, the neighborhood of the stars. This Thursday, January 9, 2025, on Instagram, Laeticia Hallyday announced that she had lost her house. “I saw our house go to ashes, helpless in the face of the flames which took everything away (…) It was not just a house… It was our refuge, our rebirth after the chaos of mourning. It is between these walls that we healed our wounds, that we learned to live with absence, to rebuild days lit by love despite the shadow of loss (…) She helped us to to get up again, to rebuild ourselves after the unimaginable absence of my husband“, she posted in the caption of an apocalyptic video.
Fires in Los Angeles: Joy Hallyday saddened by the destruction of her house, she confides
Joy Hallyday, one of his daughters, was quick to react to the tragedy. In an Instagram story, she posted the following message: “My heart sinks as I write these lines. The village and my house have disappeared. Sending love, thoughts and prayers to everyone. Stay safe“. In the show Le Water Info presented by Ashley Chevalier on BFMTV, Steven Bellery, head of the culture department of BFMTV, confided that he was able to speak with Laeticia Hallyday. “She is obviously upset, devastated because beyond this refuge that she built for herself after Johnny’s disappearance, it had become a place where she healed her wounds with her daughters Jade and Joy.“, he began.
“All the memories she treasured were in this house“
And added: “She had rebuilt a sort of mausoleum for Johnny, all the memories of Johnny Hallyday that she treasured were in this house (…) These are very precious, personal objects (…) It had been 17 years since he lived in this neighborhood (…) very upscale (…) They loved walking their dog by the beach“. Other stars have seen their homes destroyed by flames, from Tom Hanks to Reese Witherspoon, Paris Hilton, Mandy Moore and Patrick Bruel.
