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’s Malibu house was burning to the ground in the California wildfires while he was on Joe Rogan’s podcast predicting the end of civilization, the actor said Thursday. “I was kind of ill at ease while [Rogan and I] were talking because I knew my neighborhood was on fire,

The controversial actor said his property "looked like Dresden" after bombing in World War II due to the fires raging in Southern California.