Mandy Moore is demanding Amazon “do better” after a driver for the supply service left a package deal on the doorstep of her in-laws’ dwelling that was devoured by the LA fires.
The “This Is Us” alum, 40, slammed the corporate over the supply, taking to her Instagram Tales on Monday to air out her frustration.
“Do better Amazon,” Moore wrote throughout what seemed to be a supply affirmation picture seemingly taken by an Amazon driver displaying a package deal on the entrance steps of her in-laws’ burned-down dwelling.
The “Candy” singer added, “Can we not have better discretion than to leave a package at a residence that no longer exists? This is my mother and father-in-law’s home. SMH.”
Moore’s Altadena, Calif., dwelling, which she shares with husband Taylor Goldsmith and their three kids, was additionally broken by flames from the Eaton Hearth.
The Publish has reached out to Amazon for remark.
Returning to Instagram on Tuesday, Moore shared in-depth particulars about her household’s terrifying escape from their dwelling and mirrored on the fires one month after they started ravaging Los Angeles.
“We never got an evacuation notice,” the star wrote. “Sometimes in the quieter moments of processing the last month, I play the game of what would have happened if I didn’t have my phone next to me, playing my typical ‘piano for deep sleep’ mix as I nursed Lou before bed, so I could answer the call from my brother-in-law?”
Moore continued, “It was 6:45 p.m. and he told me he, his wife, and our niece were evacuating, grabbing my in-laws (his parents) and getting the heck out of Dodge and we should do the same. I calmly walked downstairs and relayed this to my husband and without skipping a beat, we promptly packed up the kids (in their pjs), our dog, and scrambled to find our 3 cats as the power went out.”
The actress went on, writing, “We found out this week that while our house is still standing, because of the proximity to the fires/ burning structures (around us on all sides) the contents of our home are a near total loss. Clothes, furniture, pretty much everything will have to be disposed of…maybe even the walls too. We won’t be there for a very long time as it and the neighborhood itself get sorted out and cleaned and the rebuilding starts. I say all of this because i’m struggling.”
“Yes we are exceedingly lucky to technically still have the structure of a home,” she acknowledged. “But also… do we still have a home? I think my definition is in flux. The physical space? No. It goes without saying that our sweet brood and our pets are ALL that matters and home is where we are together… but having a sanctuary and safe space to feel settled really goes a long way too.”
Paradoxically, Moore and her husband “were weeks away from finally being done” with all of the renovations they started making after shopping for the home in 2020 “when the fires hit.”
“I’m not saying all of this because I’m asking you to feel more sorry for us than someone else,” she defined. “Like I said, I am grateful. We’re so lucky! By the grace of god we found a place to stay in the meantime and the kids are happy and safe. We’ve even starting collecting the books and toys that they’ve lost. It’s not a competition of who lost what or more.”
Moore concluded by saying, “Real human beings across this town, regardless of their jobs or socioeconomic status, lost the life they’d come to know and count on in an instant. My whole heart is with them. Every one of them. This place, our home and the town itself, was our dream and I hope in time it will feel like that again… just a slightly different one.”
Moore beforehand confronted backlash for sharing a GoFundMe to assist her relations who had been affected by the Los Angeles fires.
“Kindly F OFF. no one is forcing you to do anything,” the actress and singer clapped again, noting that she was financially helping her relations however shared the GoFundMe as a result of folks “people [had] asked how they can help them.”
