Rachael Ray and John Cusimano stick together through thick and thin. And the couple has weathered their fair share of storms during their 18-year marriage. They suffered a devastating blow in August 2020 when their house, which they’d built 15 years before, burned to the ground. An accidental fire started after an ember from the chimney fell onto the roof, and the blaze destroyed nearly all of Ray’s belongings, including photos, drawings, notebooks, and medicines.
Ray shared photos of the wreckage on X, formerly known as Twitter. “This is what’s left of our house today,” she captioned the pics. Ray thanked first responders and friends. “We are very grateful and mindful of how fortunate we are in many ways,” she concluded. Cusimano shared more information on the fire in the Season 15 premiere of Ray’s show. “The night that the fire happened, we literally were just watching our house burn and burn and burn,” he said. “It wouldn’t stop. You’re just thinking, ‘Oh God, what’s going to be left?’ Then we went up there the next day… and there’s devastation everywhere. We were like, ‘Oh my God, there’s no house left.'”
Some couples would have been torn apart by the tragedy, but Ray and Cusimano kept calm and carried on. “We balance each other, we always have,” she told People. “We knew we’d get through this together.”
