"What wretched question have you prepared for me?" he asked.

After 250 years of European settlement and the advanced scientific knowledge of the 21st century, California is still not fully prepared for the earthquakes and wildfires that are an integral part of its dramatic landscape.

A Mail on Sunday reporter recorded Evans, 52, making the remark at the Birmingham Arena as the group prepared for a photo on stage.

They should be prepared for all of the normal human emotions, the “stages of grief,” she said.

"I am also building a room in the graveyard where corpses could be washed and prepared for burials, before now all of this had to be done from homes."