Jamie Lee Curtis, who flew from Los Angeles to New York to be on The Tonight Show just as a wildfire engulfed her neighborhood, made an emotional appearance with Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night.
The actress, who was booked to appear on the show to promote her new movie The Last Showgirl sat down and confessed to Fallon “I’m literally just about to cry.”
“As you know,” she continued, “where I live is on fire right now. Literally, the entire city of the Pacific Palisades is burning.”
It’s f*cking gnarly,” she said, her voice cracking. “This is literally where I live. Everything. The market I shop in, the schools my kids go to… Many many many many friends now have lost their homes, so it is, it’s a really awful situation.”
Coincidentally, Curtis has long worked with the American Red Cross as a disaster and preparedness ambassador, so she took the opportunity to urge viewers to do what they can to help, and to be better prepared for disasters in their own communities.
“Do anything you can,” she said. “Anything in your community to help people… give blood, donate, whatever you can do.”
“And, since I’m on in the middle of a very big television show, for anybody living anywhere, have an emergency kit in your house with prescriotion glasses, medicines, dog food, baby formula, all the things you need if you have to flee.”
“I am obviously going to go home first thing tomorrow and be with my family and try to help my friends,” she added before continuing on with the interview.
