British actor Hugh Laurie admits he’s scared to buy a home in America — in case it gives him bad luck.
Laurie, 49, is convinced his smash hit TV show House will be canceled as soon as he puts down a deposit on a property, so currently rents an apartment in Los Angeles while his wife, Jo — who he has been married to since 1989 — stays in London with their three children, Charlie, 20, Bill, 18, and daughter Rebecca, 15.
“It’s a very difficult thing,” Hugh told a Scottish newspaper. “I constantly marvel at how grown-up my children are, how grown-up they’re being about this.
“I worry about parenting at this sort of distance, but they are being so generous and so cool about it that – I mean, it might be because they’re English, and they won’t reveal their psychological damage until they’re in their late forties.
“I’m just convinced that the day we put down a deposit on a house is the day that we get canceled.
“It’s just inevitable.
“In fact, the first season I was in a hotel for the first three months because I was so convinced that we were going to be gone.
“I didn’t even unpack. I had a half-empty suitcase. I thought it was going to be any day now.
“I have an apartment now and they visit and I go back when I can.
“If we get Thanksgiving off in November, I got four days to go back. I go when I can. There’s just a lot of flying.”
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