Mandy Moore Shuts Down Critics After Sharing GoFundMe for Family Members Who Lost Their Home in L.A. Fires: 'Kindly F Off'

Mar. 15, 2025

Mandy Moore attends the Las Culturistas Culture Awards at Kings Theatre on June 15, 2024.Photo:John Nacion/Getty

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TheThis Is Usstar, 40, previously revealed that her home in Altadena was “miraculously” still standing on Thursday, Jan. 9, despite her family’s garage, music studio and back house being destroyed.

In the days that followed, Moore shared aGoFundMeon her Instagram page for her brother-in-law and sister-in-law — Griff and Kit — who “lost their home and everything they own in the Eaton Fire.”

Moore then included a message aimed at those criticizing her decision to share her family’s fundraising campaign.

“And people questioning whether we’re helping out our own family or attributing some arbitrary amount of money Google says someone has is NOT helpful or empathetic,” she wrote of her own finances. “Of course we are.”

“Our buddy Matt started this GoFundMe and i’m sharing because people have asked how they can help them,” Moore added. “We just lost most of our life in a fire too.”

The actress then concluded her caption with a direct message to critics: “Kindly F OFF. No one is forcing you to do anything.”

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Mandy Moore attends the premiere of Peacock’s “Dr. Death” Season 2 on Dec. 14, 2023.Matt Winkelmeyer/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images

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The GoFundMe campaign has since raised over $200,000 — and the organizer has disabled further donations as of Saturday, Jan. 12.

“In the last 24 hours we’ve raised more than anyone could’ve imagined. This community has absolutely blown us away; I’m speechless,” an update on the page states.

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Moore’s message to critics comes just days after sherevealed the extent of her home’s damagein an Instagram post, stating that she, husbandTaylor Goldsmithand their three children still had the “main part of our house.”

The pair share children August “Gus” Harrison, 3, Oscar “Ozzie” Bennett, 2, and 3-month-old Louise Everett.

“We were able to park and walk up our street to bear witness to all the loss. Miraculously, the main part of our house is still standing. For now,” Moore wrote on social media. “It’s not livable but mostly intact. We lost Taylor and Griffin’s studio with every instrument and piece of equipment they’ve ever owned. We lost our garage and back house.”

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source: people.com