Update
‘NCIS: LA’ Star Eric Christian Olsen Gives Family Update After Losing Home in L.A. Wildfires
Eric Christian Olsen and his wife, Sarah Wright, suffered a devastating loss when their home burned down amid the Los Angeles wildfires in January. Now, nearly three months later, the actor is offering an update about how his family is doing.
Olsen and Wright share three children together, and she’s currently pregnant with their fourth, so losing a home has been quite difficult.
However, the NCIS: Los Angeles star told Hello! that he and his loved ones are “doing okay,” and revealed, “We were living with my brother for a while, and some friends in Santa Barbara, and now we’ve found a new place and we’re doing good.”
He was also able to make some jokes about the situation when asked whether he’d ever appear on the show Matlock, which he works on behind the scenes as an executive producer. “You never know. My house just burned down and I need the money, so I may have to go back to acting,” he teased.
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Wright shared the family’s devastating news in a January Instagram post. “It’s impossible to put into words these last few days. We are together and safe and surrounded by love,” she shared, along with photos of the debris that remained from their home. “Thank you to uncle Dave and aunt Dani who took in so many of us. We lost our home. It was one of the first areas to go. Our kids have said ‘we all took our first steps there.’
She continued, “It’s so hard to say goodbye to our gorgeous town, our special school, and this place we have loved for 13 years. But we are so so grateful we are together and for the outpouring of love. We have received so many messages from friends offering their homes, food, clothing, hugs, things for the kids, support and we are just blown away. it’s what keeps making us tear up. Thank you it means so much to us. More soon.”
Olsen and Wright tied the knot in 2012. They welcomed their son in 2013, followed by a daughter in 2016 and another baby girl in 2020. Wright announced her latest pregnancy in February and confirmed that the little one is due “this summer.”
