Are John Legend and Chrissy Teigen able to take one other chew out of the Large Apple?
Chatting with the Wall Road Journal, the 13-time Grammy winner revealed that the pair have been mulling over life on the West Coast since lethal and catastrophic wildfires ripped via California final month.
Admitting there’s now “collective trauma” within the aftermath of the blaze, the “All of Me” singer stated it may be time for him and the “Cravings” cookbook writer, 39, to maneuver again to New York.
“Chrissy and I have always considered returning to New York, where we once lived,” Legend, 46, advised the outlet. “We probably will, once our youngest ones grow up a bit.”
The pair, who tied the knot in 2013, share 4 kids collectively: Luna, 8, Miles, 6, Esti, 2, and Wren, 1
“Every time nature shows its wrath, we wonder if it’s time to head back east,” the “Get Lifted” singer added. “Who knows?”
Legend and his household returned house from trip on Jan 7 — simply hours earlier than the Palisades Fireplace started ravaging town.
The “Ordinary People” singer recalled seeing “flames and billowing smoke,” prompting him and his household to hunt refuge at a lodge with their 4 kids, 4 canine, and a pet bearded dragon.
“The danger felt too close for comfort,” he advised the outlet. “That night, my wife and I gathered our four kids, four dogs and bearded dragon and drove south to a hotel in Carlsbad.”
The pair packed their important belongings and left their sprawling $17.5 million Beverly Hills mansion.
Teigen chronicled the household’s escape from the blaze on social media, admitting she was “very scared.”
“We didn’t return until the following week,” the EGOT winner stated. “Our home was safe, but many weren’t so fortunate, and the threat still looms,” he stated, including that the fires “shook everyone” in his family.
Whereas Legend didn’t say precisely when he and Teigen hope to make the transfer again east, the pair are not any strangers to the Large Apple.
Regardless of hunkering down in Beverly Hills in 2020, the duo boasted two beautiful penthouses in Manhattan earlier than deciding to promote them for $18 million in recent times.
The couple purchased the primary penthouse unit for $9 million in 2018 and the second in 2020 for $7.7 million, in response to property information.
Chatting with the outlet in 2022, Legend stated they as soon as deliberate to mix each penthouses collectively, however by no means received round to it.
“We’ve realized that because of work and everything, we’re really mostly going to be in Los Angeles, so we’re going to focus our home-building energy and renovation energy on what we’re doing in LA,” he stated on the time.
Nonetheless, he admitted to typically serious about life in NYC, including, “I miss it all the time. New York is always going to be my favorite city.”
