Lupita Nyong’o displaced by L.A. wildfires, but unsure if home is still standing

The destiny of Lupita Nyong’o’s location is inactive chartless successful the aftermath of the devastating wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles.

The Oscar-winning actress revealed that her lodging presumption is “to beryllium determined” since she’s been incapable to instrumentality to her West Coast residence successful the weeks since the blazes engulfed the L.A. country past month.

The fires, fueled by almighty winds and adust conditions, forced implicit 180,000 people to beryllium enactment nether evacuation orders and claimed the lives of astatine slightest 29 people.

A location stands among residences destroyed by the Palisades Fire successful the Pacific Palisades vicinity of Los Angeles connected Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

“I was displaced,” she told Entertainment Weekly connected the latest occurrence of “The Awardist” podcast. “I person not been capable to instrumentality home, but I person received unthinkable support. And friends person travel to my aid, and it has been a clip of conscionable — I’m wholly humbled.”

She said she knows her location is “not wholly gone,” but is unsure conscionable however overmuch harm was done.

Nyong’o is presently promoting her newest film, “The Wild Robot,” a post-apocalyptic animated movie featuring a wood occurrence sequence. She says that fixed each the caller real-life devastation, she astir apt won’t “be capable to process” that series for different “five years.”

Thousands of L.A. residents person mislaid their homes successful the wildfires, for which officials are inactive attempting to find a cause. The Eaton and Palisades fires, the astir destructive of the blazes, person unneurotic destroyed implicit 16,000 structures, including multiple movie and TV landmarks.