Joshua Jackson Is Raising His Family in His Childhood Home

In a July 29 interview with Mr Porter, Joshua Jackson of “Dawson’s Creek” and “Little Fires Everywhere” fame revealed that when the opportunity to buy his childhood home arose in 2001, he hopped on it, and is now raising his own child in the Topanga, California home in which he was raised and made so many happy memories.

Jackson was born in Vancouver, Canada, but spent his childhood up until the age of eight in the Topanga house. After his parents divorced, he moved back to Vancouver with his mother, but always remembered the home where he and his family had a “simpler” existence.

“My father unfortunately was not a good father or a husband and exited the scene, but that house in Topanga was where everything felt simple,” Jackson told Mr Porter, “so [buying the home] was a very healing thing for me to do.”

After purchasing his childhood home, Jackson used it as a part-time residence during his relationship with actress Diane Kruger, with whom he lived in a West Hollywood house. But after their split, Jackson married “Queen & Slim” star Jodie Turner-Smith in 2019, and the Topanga house is now their permanent residence. The pair welcomed their first child together in 2020 and their daughter now sleeps in her father’s childhood bedroom.

“There was a mural of a dragon on the wall in that room that I couldn’t believe was still there, years later,” Jackson said. “The owner [who sold him the house] said, ‘I knew it meant a lot to somebody and that they were going to come back for it some day.’”

Though not much is known about the current interior design of Jackson and Turner-Smith’s home, it’s likely filled to the brim in nostalgia and being filled with new memories that can be mixed with the old.