Bozoma “Boz” Saint John shares more details about losing his home in the LA fires.
In the episode of January 21 Watch what’s happening live, Saint John, 47, told host Andy Cohen about how she found out her house in Malibu had burned down. The The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills the newcomer said she is still processing the loss.
“This is a difficult time because there are so many people who have lost everything and because of that I wonder how we can be resilient and how you can carry on when things like this happen,” she explained. “I’m doing my best.”
When she found out her house was in danger, Saint John said she was on the other side of the world in Africa, so she couldn’t prepare for the potential of total destruction.
“I was in Zambia and I saw my house on Twitter and that’s how I found out it was gone,” she said. “It was devastating and I felt so helpless. There was nothing I could do. You can’t send anybody to go get anything, so I just tried to get back as quickly as possible.”
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Saint John, who also owns a home in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, bought the beachfront property four years ago, but noted that she “worked for 25 years to get it.”
“[I am] in deep sorrow,” she said. “I mean, I try not to compare the grief to anyone else or anything like that, but the hard thing is that it was more than just a house. It was not only my home, but a home for my family and my friends. I had a keypad on the house, not a keyhole, so people could just enter a code and come in whenever they wanted.”
“So we all lost our homes,” she added.
When Cohen asked how Saint John’s 15-year-old daughter Lael was dealing with the impact of the fires that ravaged LA’s Altadena and Pacific Palisades areas, she said she had mixed emotions.
“She’s fine,” the former Netflix executive said. “She is trying. She had several friends who also lost their homes, so there is some community in that as well.”
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St. John confirmed that the natural disaster had destroyed her home in an Instagram post on Jan. 9, just two days after the fires broke out. The post included photos of the home as she explained why it was an “unimaginable loss” for her and her daughter.
“This is the house I wanted. The house I prayed for. The house I worked blood, sweat and tears for,” she wrote in the description. “The house where I put a keypad instead of a keyhole on the front door because I wanted all my family and friends to have a code and use the house whenever they wanted.”
“This is the house where I found peace after fighting with racist neighbors and a community that forced me to buy it in a trust within a trust so that no one would know that a widowed, single black woman with a teenager was buying exclusively on the beach,” she continued. was my EFF YOU I’m here house I built a movie room dedicated to my sister so she could watch her movies in her sanctuary This is the house I finally felt like I could to choose how to spend my time… when I wanted and how I wanted.”
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