Alert – Haley Joel Osment reveals what he learned after losing his house in the Eaton Fire

It’s been a month since Haley Joel Osment suffered the loss of his beloved Altadena home due to the devastation of the Eaton Fire after nearly four years living there.

The 36-year-old former child star had previously lived in New York for 15 years before deciding to make the big move back to his LA hometown in order to be closer to the industry.

‘I got my place in LA on March 16th 2020, which was the day of the first lockdowns. So then immediately we were in the pandemic for a very long time,’ Haley recalled on the Mentor Buffet podcast last Thursday.

‘I had this very intense pandemic relationship that ended up going nowhere. Then things started picking up after the worse the pandemic. Then there was the [SAG/WGA] strike, which I totally supported, but that put everything on hold for a very long time. And then we’ve had some political upheaval and this house that had been my refuge during the pandemic was completely destroyed in the Eaton Fire.’

At the time, Osment – who boasts 268K social media followers – took to Instastory to announce the sad news: ‘My heart would be so full every time I drove home. It was such a special place. I loved living there.’

On January 26, the Oscar-nominated actor’s younger sister – Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage actress Emily Osment – revealed that not only did he lose his home, but their parents also lost their house to the Eaton Fire.

It’s been a month since Haley Joel Osment suffered the loss of his beloved Altadena home due to the devastation of the Eaton Fire after nearly four years living there

The 36-year-old former child star recalled on the Mentor Buffet podcast last Thursday: ‘I got my place in LA on March 16th 2020, which was the day of the first lockdowns…Then there was the [SAG/WGA] strike…and this house that had been my refuge during the pandemic was completely destroyed in the Eaton Fire’

‘So now it’s like, all right like I guess I’m getting a message to not settle down and be responsible?’ Haley mused on Mentor Buffet.

‘I have a good mindset right now because I’m back to where I was before I moved back to LA five years ago where I was just like, “Send me anywhere!” Like six years in South Africa, I signed up for a show there in 2016. I was like, “I’ll go anywhere in the world now because every time I try and domesticate myself the world really has been punching me in the mouth every time that happens.”‘

Luckily, Osment managed to save one special keepsake from the Alabama set of Forrest Gump, in which he made his big-screen debut at age five as Forrest Jr. in 1994.

‘Tom Hanks wrote out the new dialogue for the scene in a red marker on yellow legal pad and was like, “These are your new lines. Go learn these lines,”‘ the two-time SAG Award nominee recalled.

‘And I still have that piece of paper now! That actually survived the fire. I took that frame off the wall [before evacuating].’

The Southern California wildfires – which spanned January 7-31 – killed at least 29 people, forced over 200K residents to evacuate, and destroyed more than 18K homes and structures.

Other celebrities to have lost homes included Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joshua Jackson, Anna Faris, Ricki Lake, Cary Elwes, Cameron Mathison, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Tyra Banks, Chad Lowe, Miles Teller and Keleigh Teller, Mel Gibson, Milo Ventimiglia, John C. Reilly, Paris Hilton, Anthony Hopkins, Tina Knowles, Jennifer Grey, Eugene Levy, Diane Warren, and Melissa Rivers.

Haley is perhaps best known for his role as psychic child Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 psychological thriller The Sixth Sense, which scored him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination at age 11.

Osment went on to score a $1M paycheck for Pay It Forward in 2000 followed by a $2M paycheck for A.I. Artificial Intelligence in 2001.

At the time, Osment – who boasts 268K social media followers – took to Instastory to announce the sad news: ‘My heart would be so full every time I drove home. It was such a special place. I loved living there’

On January 26, the Oscar-nominated actor’s younger sister – Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage actress Emily Osment (L, pictured January 5) – revealed that not only did he lose his home, but their parents also lost their house to the Eaton Fire

Haley mused on Mentor Buffet: ‘So now it’s like, all right like I guess I’m getting a message to not settle down and be responsible? I have a good mindset right now because I’m back to where I was before I moved back to LA five years ago where I was just like, “Send me anywhere!”‘

Osment added: ‘Every time I try and domesticate myself the world really has been punching me in the mouth every time that happens’

Luckily, the two-time SAG Award nominee managed to save one special keepsake from the Alabama set of Forrest Gump, in which he made his big-screen debut at age five as Forrest Jr. in 1994 

Haley recalled: ‘Tom Hanks wrote out the new dialogue for the scene in a red marker on yellow legal pad and was like, “These are your new lines. Go learn these lines.” And I still have that piece of paper now! That actually survived the fire. I took that frame off the wall [before evacuating]’

The Southern California wildfires – which spanned January 7-31 – killed at least 29 people, forced over 200K residents to evacuate, and destroyed more than 18K homes and structures (Altadena pictured last Friday)

Haley is perhaps best known for his role as psychic child Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 psychological thriller The Sixth Sense, which scored him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination at age 11

Last year, Osment portrayed DJ Tom in Zoë Kravitz’s feature directorial debut Blink Twice, which earned $46.4M at the global box office

On Tuesday, the Drugstore June actor officially joined the growing cast of the second season of Peacock’s Poker Face and he’ll also guest star in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s Wednesday

Haley has also guest-starred as Vice President JD Vance in three sketches on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! (pictured February 11)

But in 2006, the Drugstore June actor was sentenced to three years probation on charges of DUI and misdemeanor marijuana possession after crashing his car into a brick mailbox.

That same year, Haley enrolled at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 2011, and he also briefly starred in the 2008 Broadway revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo.

Last year, Osment portrayed DJ Tom in Zoë Kravitz’s feature directorial debut Blink Twice, which earned $46.4M at the global box office.

On Tuesday, the bearded millennial officially joined the growing cast of the second season of Peacock’s Poker Face and he’ll also guest star in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s Wednesday.

Haley has also guest-starred as Vice President JD Vance in three sketches on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!