Jennie Garth Discovered Consolation at Peter Facinelli’s Home Amid Wildfire
After years of not being significantly shut, Jennie Garth was capable of flip to ex-husband Peter Facinelli when she and husband Dave Abrams had been pressured to evacuate to the Twilight alum’s home through the lethal Los Angeles wildfires in January.
“It was simply the pure selection,” Jennie, 52, informed E! Information in an interview printed on Monday, February 10. “The ladies had been like, ‘Let’s go to dad’s.’ And I mentioned, ‘Completely, get the canine. Dave, you meet us there.’ After which all of us simply sat round collectively, watched the information and talked and ate Chinese language meals. It felt very comforting and fuzzy and heat in a really scary time.”
Jennie and Peter, 51, had been married for almost 11 years earlier than asserting their break up in 2012. The previous couple share three younger grownup daughters: Luca, 27, Lola, 22, and Fiona 18.
The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum mentioned her time with Peter through the Eaton Fireplace evacuation seemingly introduced again pleased reminiscences for her women.
“I’m positive that they had some pinch me moments the place they had been like, ‘What? My mother and my dad are standing in his kitchen consuming banana bread collectively,’” she joked. “I’m positive it was surreal for them at instances, however I do know they cherished it and it made them really feel good.”
Jennie credited Peter’s look on her “I Select Me” podcast in November 2024 for getting the previous couple to the purpose the place she was capable of flip to him in such a time of want.
“It actually cleared the air for us in a number of methods, to reconnect as simply individuals, as a substitute of like a divorced couple, the mother and the dad and never agreeing on stuff,” she confided to the outlet.
“I like Peter. He likes me. I imply, clearly we had been collectively for 17 years. And I really like his fiancée and his new son. It’s simply good to be open and be straightforward,” she mentioned of their new understanding of each other.
Peter has been with fiancée Lily Anne Harrison since 2016. The couple bought engaged in 2020 and welcomed son Jack in September 2022.
Jennie and Dave, 43, mentioned their evacuation and the way they ended up at Peter’s residence through the January 11 episode of her “I Select Me” podcast.
“It’s been a bizarre week … a bizarre begin to 2025 to say the least,” Dave defined. His spouse added, “I believed this was going to be a very good 12 months — we had been entering into robust and so excited for what was going to return and this simply got here out of nowhere,” referring to their evacuation through the Eaton Fireplace that destroyed greater than 9,400 buildings within the foothill group of Altadena, California.
“We may see the flames from our home. It was one vary, one hill over. It was actually scary. I feel that’s when panic set in,” Jennie informed listeners. When recalling the robust winds, she described, “It felt like our home was going to fly away, crumble, break each wall … the youngsters had been terrified.”
Dave revealed, “You may begin to odor the smoke, so we decided — we referred to as Peter — and all of us decided to go over there.”
Whereas Jennie and Luca, Lola and Fiona headed to the house of the Nurse Jackie alum on January 7, Dave initially stayed again at their home with an aged pet earlier than being pressured to evacuate the morning of January 8.
“It’s surreal pondering that you simply’re not going to see your home ever once more,” the J. Edgar star recalled.
“All of us had a household dinner collectively, which was very nice,” Dave remembered fondly of their first meal at Peter and Lily Anne’s home. “We had by no means finished that earlier than. We ordered Chinese language meals. It was pleasurable and for that temporary second we weren’t pondering.”
Jennie and Dave’s residence in the end survived the devastating blaze.
