Sarah Michelle Gellar, best known for her titular role in the beloved Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, spoke out about the fires that devastated LA.
Hollywood actress Sarah Michelle Gellar has shared a poignant update on social media one year on from the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, which reportedly killed 31 people and at least 13,000 homes.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, who is famous for playing Buffy Summers in the popular supernatural drama, expressed her heartbreak for those affected in view of her 4.9 million Instagram followers.
She shared a picture taken last year from her car, which shows her driving away from a huge pillar of smoke.
Gellar wrote: “While Jan 7 ‘26 is really exciting for me, I do want to acknowledge where I was on this day last year: leaving my house not knowing if it would be there to come back to.”
She continued: “We watched for days from afar not knowing. But in the end, we were one of the lucky ones. It was close, but our house made it to return to, unlike so many of our friends. My heart still breaks for all of you.”
The actress then shared a picture of the deadly fires sweeping through LA from above, explaining: “This is a picture I took of the TV, watching the fire come over our hillside.
“I will always be grateful to all of the firefighters who fought for days on end, with no break, to stop the progress. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.”
Last year, Gellar was forced to flee the LA wildfires alongside her equally famous husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., with whom she shares two children.
Thankfully, after fearing their colonial-style home in the Mandeville Canyon district was under threat, the family was eventually able to return.
Gellar criticised the way local authorities handled the crisis last year, saying at the time: “City of LA you want everyone to evacuate yet you have complete gridlock and not one traffic cop on the roads helping.”
Amongst the thousands who tragically lost their homes in the fire were several celebrities, including famous couple Adam Brody and Leighton Meester, as well as Mel Gibson, Jeff Bridges, Paris Hilton, Billy Crystal, Milo Ventimiglia.
Meanwhile, 2026 is shaping up to be an exciting year for Gellar, who is helming the revival series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with the pilot episode set to be directed by award-winner Chloe Zhao.
Speaking exclusively to Reach Screen Time, fan favourite James Marsters previously revealed the reboot had caused a “feeding frenzy” in Hollywood.
He said: “I cannot wait. And then I’m assuming it’s going to go to series and the writer-producers that are going to be handling that are equally talented, but Chloé Zhao is just incredible.
“There’s a feeding frenzy right now in Hollywood,” he revealed. “All Hollywood writers are trying to get on this project.
“Because they all decided they wanted to be writers when they were kids and they watched Buffy and were like, ‘Wow, I wanna try that.’
“So everyone’s trying to get in on it and Chloe is one of the people where one of the reasons she’s a writer is that she loved Buffy.”
Source: Mirror
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