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Spencer Pratt’s sister, Stephanie Pratt, told Los Angeles residents not to vote for him for mayor, as she accused her brother of violence and getting her “hooked on hard core drugs” at 15. Around the same time, Spencer revealed his season one salary on MTV’s The Hills.
Spencer, the show’s villain, eventually married Heidi Montag, his girlfriend while filming. At the time, Heidi’s friend, Lauren Conrad, urged her to leave him before Lauren cut ties with them altogether. Last month, Spencer announced his candidacy for the mayor of Los Angeles.
“Spencer has done great work for the palisades. But LA does not need another unqualified and inexperienced mayor,” wrote Spencer’s sister Stephanie on X. “A vote for him is a vote for stupidity.”
“Everyone [is] saying I should support him no matter what,” she continued in another post. “Sorry he beat me up when I was 18 & put me in the hospital. So no he doesn’t belong in the government. Run the palisades all you want not LA.”
In another post, Stephanie addressed past drug use.
“Almost forgot how it all started – he’s the one who got me hooked on hard core drugs at 15,” she said. “I’ve kept this all a secret for years. He also had a hidden drug addiction. Now do you get he shouldn’t be running LA. Thank you. Amen.”
“And yes fact – I will always be on team Lauren Conrad. Those two spent years trying to destroy her life for magazine covers,” she went on, referring to Spencer and Heidi’s onscreen nemesis. “I always side with the vulnerable who need help not the people inflicting pain on others.”
Meanwhile, in Spencer’s recently published memoir, The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions from a Reality TV Villain, the star addressed his initial salary on The Hills.
“They were offering me $15K-$20K an episode, depending on screen time,” he wrote, via OK! Magazine. He explained that his contract also had “renegotiation clauses,” which meant his salary could be adjusted depending on how visible he was on The Hills.
At one point, he recalled when he and his friend Brody Jenner were about to finalize their own project called Banking on Brody — when the network offered them the chance to be on The Hills.
“We were inches away from closing our completely separate deal with MTV,” said Spencer, who wanted to be on The Hills first so audiences would know their names. “We’ll deliver the conflict The Hills desperately needs,” Spencer apparently told an exec at MTV.
Though Banking on Brody never happened, Spencer gained notoriety as The Hills’ villain.
“The president of MTV, Tony DiSanto, personally told me that if the Speidi [Spencer and Heidi] drama hadn’t happened, The Hills would have been canceled after Season 2,” wrote Spencer. “Back then, reality stars got paid. Today? Not so much. People do reality shows for free these days, just for social media followers.”