Joshua Jackson Says Daughter Juno, 5, Had a Few Key Suggestions for Rebuilding Their House After It Burned in L.A. Fires

Joshua Jackson's girl had immoderate suggestions for rebuilding their home aft it burned down during nan Los Angeles fires.

The actor, 46, appeared connected Today connected Tuesday, May 27, and said astir really he mislaid his puerility location during nan fires successful Los Angeles earlier this year. Jackson said that it was "not easy" and that nan first six weeks were a "scramble," but noted that his girl Juno, 5, was peculiarly resilient successful nan look of nan disaster.

"It conscionable truthful happened that nan time of a occurrence was a transportation day, truthful I driblet her disconnected astatine school, her mom picks her up, which was a blessing because it meant I had six days to benignant of get it together, fig retired a spot for america to live, get nan location restocked, get our feet connected nan ground," Jackson shared. "But it besides meant that for six days, she didn’t cognize her location burnt down."

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"So erstwhile she comes back, I beryllium her down and show her, ‘Honey, I’ve sewage immoderate bad news. The location burned down.’ She starts to cry, which is good, right? She’s processing," he continues.

The proud dada says his girl began asking if circumstantial things were okay aft nan fires, to which Jackson had to reply that they had each burned down arsenic well.

"I say, ‘This is not a grown-up thing. You tin inquire maine immoderate mobility you want astir this and I will show you immoderate you want to know.’ And she said, ‘I would for illustration to spot immoderate pictures.’ So I go, ‘Okay,’ and I show her immoderate pictures of nan house," says Jackson. "She looks astatine it and she goes, ‘Daddy, erstwhile we build nan caller house, we should build it pinch h2o astir it because h2o doesn’t burn.’"

"I go, ‘Okay,’ and past she says, ‘And you cognize what, we should build it pinch ungraded astir it because ungraded doesn’t burn.’ I said, ‘Honey, these are awesome ideas. I’m going to constitute these down and we’re gonna constitute retired a list.’"

The father-daughter duo ended up spending an hr going done it and creating a list, which became "turrets and rainbows and unicorns."

"This is nan benignant of point to watch her process, this is loss, and she still bring it up, ‘I miss my house,’ and we’ve gone up location a bunch to effort to support a relationship pinch nan onshore and thief her done it, but I’m astonished by her resiliency and her expertise to process," says Jackson.

Jackson shares his girl pinch ex-wife Jodie Turner-Smith .

The character opened up astir his divorcement from Turner-Smith connected an April section of Jesse Tyler Ferguson's Dinner's connected Me podcast and shared that he will ever put his girl first, contempt each of life's extracurricular factors.

"If I ever did thing to estrange my girl from myself, I would beryllium successful duress," he said. "I really can't conceive of it because I don't moreover wanna deliberation of nan symptom that that would be."

"Regardless of really messy nan divorcement is, beautiful nan divorcement is, easy [or] difficult nan co-parenting is ... I deliberation this procreation of dads is understanding, for illustration 'I request to beryllium here. It's gonna beryllium hard, but this is important, and I've sewage to do this,' " continued Jackson. "It's my occupation – shared pinch my ex-wife – to do everything that we tin to nurture you, cultivate you and springiness you each nan devices that you request successful life."