Nina Dobrev Has ‘Survivor’s Guilt’ After L.A. Home ‘Made It’ Through Fires

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Nina Dobrev is reflecting connected the devastation caused by the Los Angeles wildfires — and is encouraging her fans to bash the same.

“Hi everyone. It’s been specified a tragic clip successful Los Angeles recently,” Dobrev, 36, said successful a Sunday, January 19, Instagram post. “I person been perfectly sick to my tummy with each the demolition and devastation that these fires person caused and displaced truthful galore families. My bosom is breached for each the radical affected by these wildfires.”

Dobrev explained that she was among the tens of thousands of radical who evacuated their homes owed to the wildfires that began earlier this month. Dobrev near her location connected January 9, which was her 36th birthday.

“Definitely not however I planned connected spending my birthday,” Dobrev said. “But I wanted to marque this video to convey everyone for their day wishes and to marque a request. I don’t cognize astir you, but I person been feeling survivor’s guilt.”

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Dobrev noted that her location was “close to 1 of the fires,” but yet “made it.” She added, “But truthful galore others were not truthful lucky.”

Dobrev encouraged her followers to donate, linking a spreadsheet successful her bio that highlights the GoFundMe links of “many of the families” who mislaid their homes.

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“What radical truly request close present is fiscal assistance to assistance them get backmost connected their feet and commencement rebuilding their lives and their homes,” she said. “The Pacific Palisades, the Altadena-Pasadena community, successful particular, needs it the most.”

For her birthday, Dobrev donated to the GoFundMe pages and said she “would emotion it” if her followers could bash the aforesaid motion — tiny oregon large donations.

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“I enactment myself successful the shoes of each these radical whose homes person burned down to the crushed with their belongings, their memories, their everything that made them consciousness harmless successful the satellite present gone, and their security dropped them,” Dobrev said. “For immoderate of them, the level of calamity is immeasurable and it’s truly hard to comprehend. They’ve mislaid everything.”

Dobrev said her bosom has breached into “a cardinal pieces” for the families impacted by the fires. Dobrev concluded her video by sharing that she was reasoning of those affected, saying, “My thoughts and prayers spell retired to you all.”

“The devastation successful LA is immeasurable and heartbreaking This is my plea to help. For my birthday, my lone privation this twelvemonth is that you assistance a household successful need,” Dobrev captioned her post. “I’ve donated to the families connected the Google doc that is linked successful my bio. If you person been seeing each of the pictures and videos online and if you privation to assistance too, delight see donating arsenic well. There is simply a dedicated conception for the achromatic families & different historically marginalized groups successful the Altadena assemblage who person been deed particularly hard.”

She concluded, “Thank you for your enactment always, but particularly now. The roadworthy to rebuilding and healing for truthful galore families who person mislaid everything starts now, and it volition beryllium a agelong one… #LosAngelesfires.”

Check the LAFD website for section wildfire alerts and click here for resources connected however to assistance those affected.