Oscar-winning Aussie director and actor Mel Gibson has reflected on how it felt to learn that he had lost almost everything when his $23.5million mansion burnt to the ground during the LA fires.

Gibson, 69, discovered his house had been consumed by fire while recording an episode on Joe Rogan’s podcast on Friday and has since opened up to Fox host Laura Ingraham about the tragedy.

‘These are things and they may or may not be replaceable but we’re still here and I just kind of look at it in a weird kind of a way like a purification,’ he told Fox News.