‘RHOBH’ Star Bozoma Saint John Loses Malibu Home To LA Wildfires: ‘The House I Prayed For’

As residents of the greater Los Angeles area continue to grapple with the destructive wildfires underway, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Bozoma Saint John has disclosed that she has lost her home to the fires.

In an Instagram post, Saint John, the former chief marketing officer at Netflix, said the current LA wildfires destroy her Malibu home.

“This is the house I wanted. The house I prayed for. The house I worked in blood, sweat, and tears for,” she wrote in a post with accompanying photos of her home that will now become a memory. “The house that I put a key pad instead of a key hole in the front door because I wanted all my family and friends to have a code and use the house whenever they wanted.”

Saint John also opened up about the systemic racism she faced when she initially tried to purchase the home.

“This is the house where I found peace after battling with racist neighbors and a community that made me have to buy it in a trust within a trust so no one would know that widowed, single Black woman with a teenager was buying on the exclusively-held beach. This was my EFF YOU I’m here house.”

“This is an unimaginable loss. I grieve with the rest of Los Angeles as it burns… and even though I’ve found even words to write here, there’s nothing that I could say in this moment to describe this feeling,” Saint John concluded. “I ask for your prayer for Lael, and I. God bless you.”

Saint John is just one of many Los Angeles County residents who are now grieving the loss of their homes where the Palisades and Eaton fires are still burning. 

Similarly, singer Jhené Aiko took to socialmedia on Thursday morning to share that she, too, lost the home she shared with her children to the fire. The “While We’re Young” singer also took a moment to express gratitude that despite losing all of their belongings, she and her family evacuated safely.

“Praying for everyone this morning,” she shared in a story shared to Instagram. “Those who lost their home. those who lost their life’s work, those who lost their life. praying for my city. praying for the wild life and lost pets. praying for the world. let suffering be a gift; a lesson in compassion.”

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also known as Cal Fire, reported that the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles has covered over 17,000 acres (almost 27 square miles) and the Eaton Fire has affected over 10,000 acres. The fires have destroyed at least 1,000 structures, evacuation orders have affected roughly 180,000 people, and at least five people have died, per CNN.

At this time, more than 350,000 energy customers are currently without power, NBC News reported.