Patrick Bruel’s tears as his memories went up in smoke in his Los Angeles home

Patrick Bruel believes that the losses suffered with the destruction of his Californian home are not only “material”. The French singer-songwriter is among the famous people, like Laeticia Hallyday, and anonymous people whose house was consumed by flames during the gigantic fires in Los Angeles.

“It’s eight years of life, preparation, installation there,” Patrick Bruel told Parisian about his destroyed house. But the most painful are the “memories”, these “intimate things” which are not worth much to insurers, but are priceless in his eyes.

ALSO READ What the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement changesIf the singer can, he says, easily replace “a washing machine”, on the other hand, “we no longer have children’s drawings” and this loss is irremediable. The “sentence is very strong,” he insisted.

Not the most to complain about

The singer and actor, who bought this house in the historic and upscale Pacific Palisades neighborhood when he moved to Los Angeles with his two children and his then-wife, Amanda Sthers, following the anti-Semitic attacks in France in 2015, is well aware that he is not one of the “most to be pitied”. Especially, he comforts himself, that “there is no victim”, since the house was empty at that time.

Indeed, Patrick Bruel was then in France to participate in the series of c […] Read more