Tyra Banks emotionally reveals on TV that her house burnt down in LA fires: ‘It’s tough’

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one of the many celebrities who have lost their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires.The model, 51, shared the sad news on the Australian morning show “Sunrise” on Monday.“I lost my house,” said Banks. “I haven’t really talked about it, but, yeah, I have.”“I just didn’t want to pull a lot of attention to me,” she explained. “I feel like there’s a lot of people that need that attention, so I haven’t really talked about it, but I can’t sit here and not tell the truth that, yeah, we lost our house.”Banks said that she and her partner, Louis Bélanger-Martin, found out about their LA home while they were in Australia, where the couple lives part-time.“We were at a friend’s house here and we were celebrating and having fun.

I kept checking my phone, not for my house, but for friends and family, making sure they were evacuating and everything,” Banks recalled. “And then I asked my partner, I was like, ‘I’m seeing something here, what do you think?’ and he [nodded].”She added, “I just pulled it together and just didn’t say anything to my friends and just stayed in that moment, and then we went home and we cried and we had our moment.”Banks said that since she and Bélanger-Martin split their time between Australia and New York, they didn’t lose everything in the fire.“We’re between here and New York, so a lot of those memento-mementos are here and in New York, so I didn’t lose that, thank goodness,” she shared. “There were some mementos that we lost.