Jennie Garth broke down in tears as she revealed her ex-husband Peter Facinelli had taken her in amid the catastrophic LA fires this week.
The Beverly Hills, 90210 veteran, 52, sobbed on Thursday as she said her ex and Twilight star Facinelli, 50, and his family had sheltered her and that her family home ‘had been spared.’
‘I wanted to let you know that we are safe,’ began the actress. ‘Peter and his family took us in and have been so kind.’
She then expressed how grief stricken she was. ‘I am deeply saddened for our city and just feel numb,’ said Jennie.
‘Our home was spared but so much to clean up and ready to get active to help our neighbors and friends and fellow Angelinos.’
She then said her husband Dave Abrams had been ‘amazing transporting all our bags and boxes, loading and unloading.’
Jennie Garth broke down in tears as she revealed her ex-husband Peter Facinelli had taken her in amid the catastrophic LA fires this week
The Twilight hunk filed for divorce from Garth in 2012. It was finalized in June 2013; they are seen in 2005
Firefighters are seen battling the Eaton Fire in strong winds as many homes burn on January 7, 2025 in Pasadena
She ended with: ‘Just keep everyone here who is suffering in your heart and prayers. I am grateful we are all ok and have a home to return to. This will effect people differently, so reach out, and offer to help, it really does mean so much.
‘Thank you for all the love that is being sent this way.’
Facinelli is engaged to Lily Anne Harrison and the pair share son Jack, two.
The pair have become close again 12 years on from their divorce.
They met on the set of their 1995 movie An Unfinished Affair and tied the knot in January 2001. The union didn’t last, and Facinelli filed for divorce in March 2012, which was finalized in June 2013.
Garth shares three daughters Luca, 27, Lola, 21, and Fiona, 18 with Facinelli, 50.
In October she shared she suffered two miscarriages with her husband Dave Abrams shortly after they got married.
She and the actor, 43 — who wed in 2015 — opened up about the difficult time they went through on an episode of her iHeartPodcast, I Choose Me with Jennie Garth.
The star remembered feeling ‘ashamed’ after not being able to give Abrams ‘a baby boy.’
‘I think at that time, I was feeling really down on myself, really ashamed, feeling like I was disappointing you, like I wasn’t able to carry a pregnancy with you, who I loved,’ she remembered.
‘And I had had these three beautiful daughters with Peter, and you had stepped in and become such a wonderful stepdad to them.’
The Beverly Hills, 90210 star, 52, was makeup free with her blonde hair down as she wore clear-frame glasses and a gray tank top. She sobbed as she said her ex-husband, Twilight star Peter Facinelli, took her in during the horrible firestorm in Los Angeles
She and Pete met on the set of their 1995 movie An Unfinished Affair and tied the knot in January 2001 (the family pictured in 2011)
Facinelli is engaged to Lily Anne Harrison and the pair share son Jack, two – pictured 2021
‘And so I remember I so, so, so wanted to give you a baby boy,’ she said.
Jennie admitted that she doesn’t remember a lot from that time, as she’s blocked it out.
‘This is a pretty vulnerable topic, and I really appreciate you being open to talking about it because I think it could help some people,’ she said at the start of the conversation.
‘What point in our relationship did we start talking about maybe wanting to have kids together?’
‘Well, if you remember, we got married on July 11,’ Abrams replied. ‘And then we got pregnant that same month.’
‘We got pregnant naturally,’ Garth added.
‘Yeah. We got back from Carmel. We went to a little mini honeymoon to Carmel up in Monterey. And like two weeks later, you were pregnant,’ Abrams said.
He went on: ‘Well, we went to Nancy, your doctor, the gynecologist, and yeah, we were good to go. And then that lasted almost four months. And then, you know, we found out.’
‘What do you mean?’ Garth asked her husband.
In October shared she suffered two miscarriages with her husband Dave Abrams, 43, shortly after they got married in 2015; the pair seen in 2023 in Berlin, Germany
‘Well, I don’t want to get emotional in the first 15 minutes of a podcast. Yeah, we found out that there was no heartbeat,’ he said.
Abrams shared he was ‘upset’ after finding out. Garth asked, ‘Did you feel upset with me?’
‘No,’ he replied. ‘I wasn’t upset, I was just down.’
The pair were then informed about a dilation and curettage procedure (DNC).
A dilation and curettage procedure is a ‘procedure to remove tissue from inside your uterus. Health care professionals perform dilation and curettage to diagnose and treat certain uterine conditions — such as heavy bleeding — or to clear the uterine lining after a miscarriage or abortion’ according to the Mayo Clinic.
‘I had had these three beautiful daughters with Peter, and you had stepped in and become such a wonderful stepdad to them,’ she said; they are seen in 2018
‘I think I remember them saying we could just wait and let it work its way,’ Garth said.
‘Let nature take its course or we could do the procedure. And we opted to do the procedure because it was just too much for me to carry a baby that had been terminated.’
‘Yeah, it was totally heavy,’ her husband said.
The pair then opted to have the procedure done that day.
The couple then reconciled that maybe it wasn’t ‘in the cards’ for them to have a child.
‘But then it happened again,’ Abrams shared. ‘Naturally,’ Garth added, though she said she could not remember this one either.
‘So that one was shorter. I remember we had to switch doctors. And this one was only, you know, you found out you got pregnant. And then this was only like a month and a half,’ Abrams said.
‘I think the doctor at the time was like, “Well, it’s not going to be healthy anyway.” So then we did the DNC again.’
‘And then by that time, I think it had definitely taken an emotional toll which we didn’t know how to communicate at the time. So we kind of just wrapped it up and then other things kind of came in the fold.’
Many A-list celebrities have lost their stunning multi-million dollar mansions in Los Angeles due to the Pacific Palisades and Hollywood Hills fires.
The homes of Anthony Hopkins, Anna Faris, Paris Hilton, Candy Spelling, Heidi Montag, John Goodman and Miles Teller are destroyed.
But several stars have been able to keep their properties safe out of sheer chance and the assistance of brave firefighters.
One of the luckiest Hollywood stars is Kate Hudson who has two homes in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
The two mega properties are side-by-side and are lavish with two stories, generous balconies, lush lawns and swimming pools.
Other stars who have seen their homes saved include Tom Hanks, Rebel Wilson, Tom Brady, Chris Pratt, Dan Aykroyd, Steven Spielberg and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Firefighters are battling a series of major blazes that have killed at least five people, destroyed communities and forced thousands to flee.
More than 45 square miles and 1,300 structures have been destroyed in the LA area as of Thursday since five wildfires erupted across the region, causing an estimated $48billion in damage.
Debris from a burned houses is seen in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood
Two new blazes broke out overnight in the Hollywood Hills and Studio City – forcing first responders to redeploy their already-scarce resources to the burnt landscape.
The National Guard has been deployed and could send in military personnel to assist, amid revelations that heroic firefighters are ‘triaging’ homes and neighborhoods.
The LA Fire Department issued an evacuation order for people in an area within Hollywood Boulevard to the south, Mulholland Drive to the north, the 101 Freeway to the east and Laurel Canyon Boulevard to the west – all iconic addresses in showbiz.
The latest fires mean huge swathes of iconic southern California real estate from Malibu to Santa Monica, and from Pacific Palisades to Runyon Canyon, are ablaze – impacting millions caught off guard by the unprecedented spread and carnage.