The actor is in good spirits though, joking, "I went home and I said to myself, ‘Well at least I haven’t got any of those pesky plumbing problems anymore.'"

Mel Gibson loses his home to the Los Angeles-area wildfires while doing an interview with hit podcaster Joe Rogan in Austin, Texas.

"It's obviously devastating. It's emotional," he told NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports." "You know, we have lived there for a long time."