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Conan O'Brien Is Taking It 'a Day at a Time' After Parents’ Deaths, L.A. Fires as He Prepares to Host Oscars

Conan O'Brien shares with PEOPLE how he's preparing for the 2025 Oscars following a tough period in which he lost both of his parents and wildfires hit Los Angeles.

"It has been a lot happening in a very short time, and there's a lot that happened in my personal life starting in December that was intense, and then going into this month with the fires and prep for what's coming up," he tells PEOPLE at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, held at the Library Center Theatre in Park City, Utah, on Friday, Jan. 24. His mother, Ruth Reardon O’Brien, died "peacefully" at 92 on Dec. 12, according to an obituary shared by the Bell-O’Dea Funeral Home in Brookline, Mass. He recalls speaking to the woman who drove him to the Park City, Utah premiere about the ongoing fires and learning that she was actually from Los Angeles and her apartment "burned to the ground."

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