Miley Cyrus Says Her ‘Soul Aches’ amid L.A. Fires as She’s Reminded of 2018 Blaze

Miley Cyrus is reflecting on the devastating fire that destroyed her home six years ago.

On Saturday, Jan. 11, the singer, 32, shared an Instagram post in light of the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles. She showed a portion of her house in rubble as four letter-shaped cushions lay on top, spelling “love.”

“This image hits me hard in the heart today,” Cyrus wrote in the caption. “This is a photo taken of my front porch in 2018 after losing our house in the Woolsey fires. It’s a feeling you don’t ever forget.”

She continued, “Walking up to the door you would pass through daily, looking forward to being greeted by the ones you love like you always do but instead being met by a pile of ash and rubble.”

The “Flowers” singer added, “My soul aches for those who are experiencing this devastation firsthand and I cry for my city. It’s beyond heartbreaking. Los Angeles represents ‘living the dream’ but the reality today is wreckage and destruction.”

Cyrus shared links to organizations that are assisting in response to the fires that she is “personally supporting,” including the Malibu Foundation, which she co-launched. 

“Time, resources and dedication from inside and outside of our community will heal us, but it hurts deeply for now,” she concluded, before signing off with “Love always.”

The caption and photo were shared on The Miley Cyrus Foundation Instagram feed as well as Cyrus’s personal Instagram Stories.

Cyrus lost her Malibu home that she shared with her ex Liam Hemsworth in 2018 while she was in South Africa filming Black Mirror. Her then-fiancé was home and rescued their many pets.

At the time, she wrote on social media that she was “completely devastated” by the loss.

“I am one of the lucky ones,” she wrote. “My animals and LOVE OF MY LIFE made it out safely & that’s all that matters right now. My house no longer stands but the memories shared with family & friends stand strong.”

Cyrus opened up about the experience to Vanity Fair in 2019, revealing that the home was purchased years prior by Hemsworth. However, she had recorded her first non-Hannah Montana album in the same house years earlier, when it belonged to producer Matthew Wilder.

“I’ll never be happy that all those memories and pictures and things that I’ve loved are gone,” she said. “But to have an experience like this — I find myself feeling more connected to being human again.”

In 2023, the singer looked back on her earliest memories in the house in a TikTok video shared as part of a series celebrating her song “Used to Be Young.”

“The Meet Miley Cyrus record was really where I started writing my own songs as a solo artist, and so I was working with a producer in Malibu that lived in a house in Ramirez Canyon, which I would’ve never known 15 years later I would be living in that house, which would eventually burn down,” she said. 

“That house had so much magic to it,” Cyrus added. “It ended up really changing my life.”

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PEOPLE previously reported that more than 80,000 people have been displaced in the ongoing fires, which started on Jan. 7, including celebrities Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, Anna Faris, Ricki Lake, Cary Elwes, Cameron Mathison, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag.

The wildfires have caused at least 16 fatalities so far, according to the L.A. County Medical Examiner.