‘RHOBH’ Star Bozoma Saint John Lost Malibu House in Palisades Fire: “I Felt So Helpless”
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Bozoma Saint John lost her Malibu home to the Palisades Fire, the reality TV personality and former Netflix exec revealed this week.
Saint John told Andy Cohen during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live that she learned of the house’s burning on X, formerly Twitter. “I was in Zambia and saw my house on Twitter and that’s how I found out that it was gone,” she said. “It was devastating, and I felt so helpless. There was there was nothing I could do. You can’t send anybody to go get anything, so I just tried to make my way back as quickly as possible.”
The RHOBH star said the loss has forced further reflection. “It’s a difficult time because there are so many people who have lost everything, and it makes me wonder about just how we can be resilient and how you can continue to go on when things like this happen,” she said. “I’m trying my best.”
Saint John also owns a home in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park neighborhood, but noted that her Malibu home was one that she frequently shared with many family members and friends. “I had a keypad on the house, not a keyhole, so that people could just put in a code and go in whenever they want,” she said. “[I am] in deep grief.”
The former business exec also offered an update on her 15-year-old daughter’s coping with the loss. “She’s doing alright,” she said. “She’s trying. She had a few friends who lost homes as well, so there’s some community in that too.”
Saint John joined RHOBH last May after a storied career in marketing, which touched the c-suite offices of Netflix, Endeavor, Pepsi, Beats, Apple and Uber. She told The Hollywood Reporter in December, though, that much of the reality TV drama isn’t entirely new to her. “If people saw inside of boardrooms, they’d be shocked by the way people behave — the things they say, how sharp they can be to each other, how divisive and political they can be,” she said. “I’m not shocked by the drama, but I am entertained by it. The challenge is that I’m trying to figure out what exactly is going on, because I’m not a person who is just going to listen to one side of the story and go with it. I’m paying attention.”
