Robbie Williams’ wife Ayda Field opened up about escaping the ‘terrifying’ Los Angeles wildfires on Loose Women.
Ayda, 45, recounted her family’s experience with the devastating blazes that shook America last month when she appeared as a guest panellist on Monday’s episode of the ITV daytime show.
Speaking to Ruth Langsford, Sally Lindsay and Brenda Edwards, the American actress shared how she was in LA with her husband and four children – Teddy, 12, Charlie, 10, Coco, six, and Beau, five – when the fires first started.
‘Everything turned so quickly in Los Angeles, it was very surreal, really heartbreaking to watch,’ she said.
The American actress shared that the couple’s eldest child – Teddy – was ‘terrified’.
‘The air quality was really bad during the fires so you couldn’t go out, it was very clear that something was going on. The kids could play in the garden, they had to stay in,’ she said.
Robbie Williams’ wife Ayda Field opened up about escaping the ‘terrifying’ Los Angeles wildfires on Monday’s episode of Loose Women
Ayda, 45, recounted her family’s experience with the devastating blazes that shook America last month when she appeared as a guest panellist on the ITV daytime show
While the youngest were kept occupied with Bluey and baking, Teddy was more aware of the situation.
Ayda added: ‘Teddy is of an age now, I was very stressed out and so was Rob, and she was hearing the amber alerts and she was terrified.’
She described how just days before the fires started, she had attended the Golden Globes Awards with former Take That singer Robbie.
However, she soon realised things were wrong when a friend in Malibu received an Amber ‘threat to life’ warning for high winds.
The situation soon escalated in LA and Ayda described how it was ‘terrifying’ when the winds suddenly picked up and ‘you knew that fire was ripping through the city’.
‘You could see smoke, it was hazy, it was black,’ Ayda added.
It isn’t Ayda’s first experience with a life-threatening disaster and she shared how her family lost their home to an earthquake when she was just 14 years old.
Looking back at the wildfires, Ayda recalled: ‘I was getting phone calls from friends, we’d been evacuated, it was all very quick, it was all in real time and it was just surreal and your phones would go off with these amber alerts and it was very loud and strong.’
When she evacuated with her family, she packed ‘pH๏τographs that I had and pᴀssports’.
The American actress shared how she was in LA with her husband and four children – Teddy, 12, Charlie, 10, Coco 6 and Beau, 5 – when the fires first started
It comes after Ayda shared an update on her family’s situation with the fires on Loose Women through a message read out during an episode last month.
The beauty, who is a regular guest panellist on the ITV daytime show, was responding to a message from Katie Piper.
She explained that she had been evacuated along with ten others and that her parents had potentially lost all their belongings, along with their home.
She added that her main concern was her mother Gwen, who is battling cervical cancer, and was due to continue her chemotherapy treatment tomorrow.
Her message read: ‘It’s chaos here – it looks like some kind of warzone and it’s just all so sad.
‘I’ve had about ten people evacuated with me including my dad, who has potentially lost his house.
‘We’re waiting to hear whether he has in fact lost everything and my mum has chemo early tomorrow too.’
She described how just days before the fires started, she had attended the Golden Globes Awards with former Take That singer Robbie (pictured at the event)