Jamie Lee Curtis Pledges to Donate $1 Million for Los Angeles Wildfire Relief

As the wildfire rages on, Jamie Lee Curtis shared on Instagram that she would be donating $1 million to fire relief, noting that the donation will be coming from her family foundation. (Curtis is married to the filmmaker Christopher Guest; they have two kids.) She added that they are communicating with California governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, and Senator Adam Schiff on the best use of those funds.

The post comes after Curtis’s spot on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon last night to promote The Last Showgirl, for which she received a SAG Supporting Actress nomination earlier in the week. She spent the opening stretch of her appearance talking about the devastating losses of the wildfires that swept through the Pacific Palisades. “As you know, where I live is on fire right now,” she said. “Everything — the market I shop in, the schools my kids go to … many, many, many friends have lost their homes.” Curtis’s own home is located in Santa Monica, contiguously south of the Palisades, which is facing evacuation orders in areas. After noting on Instagram on January 8 that her house was “possibly” on fire, she later confirmed that the structure is safe. Curtis also appealed to viewers to donate resources to aid organizations like the American Red Cross — Curtis is a longtime ambassador — and bulk up on their emergency preparedness. “Do anything you can, anything in your community to help people,” she said. “Whether you need it or not now, you will need it.”

She is the first celebrity to pledge a donation to relief efforts.