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Ricki Lake lost her home and entire collection of movie memorabilia in the Los Angeles wildfires in January 2025

Months later, an “old friend” mailed her Cry-Baby and Hairspray shirts, including one nearly identical to a shirt she lost

“These mean the world to me ... the shirts are XXXL, big enough to fit my biggest fan, my giant husband,” Lake said

Ricki Lake is grateful for her old friends.

In January, the harrowing wildfires that tore through Los Angeles claimed the Pacific Palisades home that the actress and former talk show host, 56, shared with husband Ross Burningham . The loss of the “dream home,” where the couple tied the knot in 2022, is “immeasurable,” Lake wrote on Instagram at the time.

“It was our heaven on earth,” she wrote of their L.A. home

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