Antonio Banderas Says Ex Melanie Griffith and Family Evacuated to Live with Daughter Stella amid L.A. Wildfires (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith and Stella del Carmen Banderas.Photo:Juan Naharro Gimenez/WireImage; Stefanie Keenan/Getty; Carlos Alvarez/Getty

Juan Naharro Gimenez/WireImage; Stefanie Keenan/Getty; Carlos Alvarez/Getty

Antonio Banderas' family in Los Angeles remains safe, weeks after aseries of devastating wildfiresbroke out across the city.

Banderas, 64, tells PEOPLE in a recent interview about hisBosch Super Bowl commercialthat his ex-wifeMelanie Griffithand other members of her family stayed with their daughterStella Banderasafter they were ordered to evacuate from their homes in the initial days after fires burst out across L.A. county on Jan. 7.

“With Dakota, I think she was out of Los Angeles,” Banderas says of hisstepdaughterDakota Johnson, who has been photographedtraveling through India with her fiancé Chris Martinduring Coldplay’s world tourin recent days. “But I talk all the time with my daughter Stella. I continue doing it and I know everybody’s fine. I know that Melanie was at some point, the whole entire area where she lives, they got the evacuation. And so her, my ex mother-in-law, some friends of my daughter, they were all living with my daughter because she was in an area that was not [affected].”

Dakota Johnson and Antonio Banderas on Sept. 7, 2019.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

“It’s so sad,” Banderas, who lives in Spain, says of the ongoing wildfires in L.A., which he described as “difficult to understand for European people.”

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“My daughter was telling me, ‘Oh, Papi, I never experienced winds like this in Los Angeles. It was unbelievable, and it was very difficult to stop. We were seeing embers that were just flying miles and falling into another neighborhood,’ " Banderas says. “So if you are not looking at the sky entire time, you can find the surprise that your house is just burning from the roof. So all of these things were happening all at the same time. . . It’s very difficult.”

Dakota Johnson, Melanie Griffith, Stella Banderas and Antonio Banderas on Oct. 18, 2005.Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic

Banderas' commercial with Bosch will air during the fourth quarter ofSuper Bowl LIXon Sunday, Feb. 9.

source: people.com