Nina Dobrev is opening up about feeling survivor’s guilt after her house, positioned close to one of many many Los Angeles wildfires, survived the devastation.
The Vampire Diaries star revealed she evacuated her residence on January 9, the day of her birthday, in a video shared to her Instagram account on Saturday, January 18. Dobrev identified within the clip that though her house survived the tragedy, “so many others weren’t so fortunate.”
“I’ve been completely sick to my abdomen with all of the destruction and devastation that these fires have brought on and displaced so many households,” she started. “I don’t learn about you, however I’ve been feeling survivor’s guilt.”
Dobrev added that evacuating her house within the wake of the blaze was “positively not how I deliberate on spending my birthday” and urged her followers to donate and assist victims of the wildfires as her “birthday want.”
“What individuals actually need proper now’s monetary support to assist them get again on their toes and begin rebuilding their lives and their properties,” she added, giving a particular point out to the Pacific Palisades, and the Altadena and Pasadena communities.
Dobrev referenced a Google spreadsheet linked in her Instagram bio with an inventory of households who misplaced their properties within the fires as a supply to donate to. “For my birthday this yr, I went down that checklist and I donated to these households, and it will be my birthday want. I might adore it should you might do the identical,” she stated, encouraging her followers to make donations of any quantity inside their means to assist of their restoration.
The LA wildfires ignited on Tuesday, January 7, within the Pacific Palisades and unfold to numerous places across the space, scorching 1000’s of acres of buildings, together with properties and companies.
“I put myself within the sneakers of all these individuals whose properties have burned all the way down to the bottom with their belongings, reminiscences, all the pieces that made them really feel protected on the earth now gone, and their insurance coverage dropped them,” Dobrev added. “For a few of them, the extent of tragedy is immeasurable, and it’s actually onerous to understand.”
Within the caption of her put up, the actress famous that there’s a devoted part for Black households and different traditionally marginalized teams who’ve been hit particularly onerous on the spreadsheet she shared. She concluded the video on a heartfelt be aware, saying, “The journey of therapeutic is an extended one, and I’m sending a lot like to you.”
The now-contained LA wildfires are reported to have claimed a minimum of 27 lives.
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