Actor and model Cara Delevingne has cleared up worries that her two cats died in a blaze that swept through her Los Angeles home early Friday morning, saying on Instagram that the two Persians “are alive!!”
Delevingne terrified her fans when she initially wrote about the fire at her luxurious, art-filled Hollywood Hills home, sharing a video that showed the massive response by Los Angeles firefighters and police, TMZ reported. The “Paper Towns” actor also included a photo of her two cats with the caption: “My heart is broken today … I cannot believe it. Life can change in a blink of an eye. So cherish what you have.”
The photo, with that message, led fans to mistakenly assume that the cats, with their sweet faces and fluffy white fur, had perished. Fortunately, that’s not the case. Still, the loss of her beloved home means that Delevingne is going through a life-changing event.
The actor wasn’t home when the blaze broke out shortly before 4 a.m. Friday, KTLA also reported. She’s been in the U.K. performing in a play.
TMZ reported that the cause has not been determined, but said that arriving firefighters were told that the blaze appeared to have started in a back room on the property. KTLA reported that the fire spread from that room to the attic of the two-story home, with TMZ saying that part of the roof collapsed. It took firefighters some two hours to totally knock down the fire, with one firefighter going to the hospital with an unknown injury and an occupant of the house suffering smoke inhalation.
Two years ago, Delevingne took Architectural Digest on a tour of the 6,500-square-foot home, which was built in 1941. She described it as “an adult playhouse,” one of “my favorite places to be.”
She extravagantly decorated and filled the four-bedroom home with bright, colorful furnishings, Gucci wallpaper decorated with pink flamingos and other unique items, such as a see-through Wurlitzer piano and artwork by famed Light and Space movement artist James Terrell.
Delevingne also has a room dedicated to poker and got her architect Nicolò Bini to install a ball pit and what she called a secret “vaginal tunnel,” a pink-pillow-lined passage way from one room to another where, she said, she likes to hide away. “I come in here to think, I come in here to create, I come in here to be inspired in the vagina tunnel,” she said.