This is Us star Chrissy Metz offered an update on how her friend and co-star Mandy Moore is doing after losing her home in the deadly Los Angeles fires in January.
Metz, 44, who revealed she has lost 100 pounds, told Extra that Moore and her family were ‘doing well,’ as they try to rebuild their lives.
Moore, 43, lost her house in the Eaton fire, in east Los Angeles county.
‘A lot of the structure was able to be salvaged, which is great, but it’s so jarring,’ Metz told the outlet.
‘It’s so life-altering, and she has children and pets. It’s just frightening because there’s nothing you can do but hopefully get out of there.’
Moore shared the house with her husband Taylor Goldsmith and their three kids; sons Gus, four, and Ozzie, two and daughter Lou, 10 months.
.Mandy Moore, 41, and her family are ‘doing well’ after losing their homes in the deadly LA fires in January according to her former co-star Chrissy Metz, 43
Metz’s latest project is focused around another deadly California fire that ravaged the small mountain town of Paradise, CA in 2018.
She plays the title character in Faith in the Flames: The Nichole Jolly Story.
The Emmy nominee said she was hesitant to sign on for the project at first.
‘I love a true story, and I love a heroic true story,’ she said.
‘However, there was fire involved, and I was like, “I don’t know if I’m the girl for the job… Maybe I can’t do it, like, physically and mentally, emotionally,”‘ adding, ‘It’s a lot. And it’s real fire.’
Talking to the real Nichole Jolly seemed to help steady Metz’s nerves.
‘We talked for a couple of hours. I asked her so many questions. I just don’t understand how her brain worked,’ she explained.
‘I was like, I don’t think I could do it, you know? Like, I get overwhelmed if I wake up late.’
Jolly responded by telling her, ‘I just took one step after another and then you help every single person you can.’
Faith in the Flames: The Nichole Jolly Story debuted on Lifetime July 19.
‘A lot of the structure was able to be salvaged, which is great, but it’s so jarring,’ Metz told the outlet
‘It’s so life-altering, and she has children and pets,’ she said of Moore, who escaped with her husband Taylor Goldsmith and their children Gus, four, and Ozzie, two and daughter Lou, 10 months
Metz is headlining the fact-based Lifetime movie Faith in the Flames: The Nichole Jolly Story. It debuted on Lifetime July 19; Pictured in Nashville in May
As for keeping up with her This Is Us co-stars, Metz relayed that they are in constant contact with each other.
‘We all are texting each other. I always text when any projects come out or Sterling with his nominations for Paradise.’
Brown received his 10th Emmy nomination for his role as a secret service agent investigating the murder of the president after an environmental catastrophe.
If he wins it will be his third Emmy following wins in 2016 for American Crime Story and in 2017 for This is Us.
