If she has been rolling up her sleeves to help the victims for two days, it is because she was personally affected by the fires in Los Angeles. Actress Jennifer Garner has indeed lost a friend.
Many celebrities lost their homes in the Los Angeles fires, but there was one who lost a friend. While helping the victims by distributing food with the World Central Kitchen association on Friday, Jennifer Garner gave an interview to the MSNBC channel. An interview during which she revealed that a member of her church had perished in the flames.
“I lost a friend, and for our church, it’s very delicate, so I don’t think we should talk about it now,” first declared with emotion the actress, who has just visited her Methodist church of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood be destroyed by fire. “I lost a friend. She didn’t get out in time,” she then explained. “My heart bleeds for my friends. I can think of 100 families and 5,000 homes destroyed. I can, without even [y penser]simply make a list of 100 friends who lost their homes. »
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The church where Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck attended was completely destroyed by the Palisades fire on January 8, 2025.
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Jennifer Garner continued by confiding that she felt “almost guilty” for still being able to “walk in (her) house”. So the star is doing everything she can to help her neighbors in need, including supporting members of the World Central Kitchen association, as she did in the Altadena neighborhood on January 10.
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“I’ve lived in Palisades and the surrounding area for 25 years, so I think we all want to pitch in in some way to be helpful. And through my work with Save The Children, we have a relationship with the chef [José Andrés, le fondateur de la World Central Kitchen, NDLR]and I was able to just say, “Can I be with you for the day?” What can I do to help you? Put me to work. »
Alongside chef José Andrés, Jennifer Garner helps by participating in the World Central Kitchen which serves meals to victims of the California fires, in Altadena, January 10, 2025.
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Affected or not, the stars are mobilizing
Other American stars have mobilized in recent days, notably Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who also joined the World Central Kitchen volunteers on Friday. For his part, Michael Douglas launched a call for solidarity on Instagram on Saturday. The actor may not have been affected by the fires, but he lamented a “nightmare tragedy” and mobilized the Douglas Foundation created by his father Kirk for a donation to the American Red Cross.
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Because she saw her house in Malibu reduced to ashes, Paris Hilton – among others – continues to relay on her social networks the names of the different organizations mobilized on the ground and which need support.
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