One of the neighborhoods in Los Angeles most affected by the fires, the village of Pacific Palisades was where Jade and Joy Hallyday grew up. In pictures, the sisters said goodbye to their beloved home on Instagram.
It is with great emotion that the Hallyday girls say goodbye to their beloved “village”. In the middle of the week, Laeticia Hallyday and her daughters Jade and Joy lost their house in the terrible fire which razed the upscale neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. Not only do mother and daughters no longer have a home, but they are mourning the loss of a neighborhood in which they lived for nearly twelve years.
“We lost our house in the Palisades, my refuge, the place where so many wonderful memories of my childhood were made,” Jade Hallyday reacted on her Instagram account. “I feel so devastated. My heart is broken, to lose not only a house but a part of ourselves,” added the 20-year-old young woman, in the caption of a souvenir album retracing the happy moments of recent years.
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Jade is going through this ordeal with her younger sister Joy. “Our beautiful little village of Palisades is gone. My home and my childhood are now gone, our haven of peace. I don’t have the words,” the 16-year-old confided, also on Instagram. “We are truly devastated by everything that is happening […]. I will forever cherish every moment spent with my family and friends in the house of happiness,” added the high school student.
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Not one, but two lost family homes
After the sale of the family home shared with Johnny in Pacific Palisades, between 2013 and 2017, Laeticia Hallyday and her daughters moved to a more “modest” residence in this same neighborhood in 2021. It is in this second house that mother and daughters rebuilt following the death of the rocker.
“There is nothing left,” Laeticia Hallyday wrote Thursday on Instagram, in the caption of a video showing her neighborhood engulfed in flames. “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. It sheltered our dreams, our secrets, our promises for tomorrow. But above all, she helped us get back on our feet, to rebuild ourselves after the unimaginable absence of my husband. »
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I feel like I’ve lost a part of my soul.
Laeticia Hallyday
In a second message relayed on January 11, Taulier’s widow added: “I have the impression of having lost a part of my soul, as if a part of me had gone away with the flames. Yet in this abyss, there remains one thing that nothing can ever burn away the immense love I receive every day. Your messages, your prayers, your gestures touch me deeply. You are my strength, my hope, my reason to believe in tomorrow. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. »
The human toll from the fires that have affected Los Angeles for four days has risen to eleven deaths. The wind fanning the flames began to weaken on Friday, while controversy over the effectiveness of the relief efforts mounted. Entire sections of the second largest city in the United States are devastated: more than 10,000 buildings have been destroyed and more than 14,000 hectares have gone up in smoke.
