Jennifer Esposito says she has to move out of home she mortgaged to finance her first film: 'I've been crying'
- - Jennifer Esposito says she has to move out of home she mortgaged to finance her first film: 'I've been crying'
Lauren HuffFebruary 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Jennifer Esposito at the Astra Awards in 2024
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Jennifer Esposito is sharing some sad news.
The Blue Bloods star took to her Instagram over the weekend to reveal that she is moving out of the home she mortgaged in order to finance her first film as a director, 2024's Fresh Kills.
"Yeah, I'm looking like ass right now because I've been crying, because I'm moving out of my home that I mortgaged to make my film," she says in the video.
"And to then have people who are in the spotlight not be able to just throw one back and say, 'Hey, thanks, watch this film,'" she continues in the clip. "And then I said to myself, 'You know what? Nobody owes anybody anything.' And then I thought, 'Do we? Do we as human beings? Maybe that's why we're in this problem right now, where we are.' I think actually we do owe each other something. We owe each other decency as human beings."
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In the caption for the video, Esposito added, "Imagine if we all actually had one another's backs. Systems that are meant to divide actually might fall. And now feel free to scroll about the best new face lift, arrest of a journalist and who else was shot."
Some fellow stars immediately offered their support in the comments. "Your film was exquisite and I'm better for seeing it," Debra Messing wrote. "The fact that you have to leave your home in order to give your art to the world is maddening."
And Don Cheadle added: "Here for you, kiddo! Ya'll check Jennifer's movie out. She put and puts it all on the line. A real artist in the pursuit of truth!"
Esposito said back in 2024 that she was taking out a mortgage on her house because she had faith in herself and in Fresh Kills, which she wrote, directed, and starred in.
"This town tells you what you can be and what you can't be for so many years. I was just so over that and thought, 'Why am I asking the world to believe in me, I have to believe in me.' So I'm going to put my money down," she said in an interview with KTLA. "At the end of my life, am I going to be happy that my house was paid off? Or am I going to be so happy that I gave myself the opportunity that I've been waiting for for far too long? So I thought, I'm going."
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Set against the backdrop of late-'80s Staten Island, Fresh Kills follows a group of women in an organized crime family. In addition to Esposito, it stars Emily Bader, Odessa A'zion, Annabella Sciorra, and Domenick Lombardozzi.
The film garnered positive reviews but only grossed about $68,000, on a reported $2 million budget.
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