Spencer Pratt Says He Feels “Like a Ghost” After Losing House in L.A. Fire: “I Don’t Have a Single Photo Now From Before An iPhone Existed”
The Hills stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag sat down with Good Morning America on Wednesday and opened up about losing their home in the Pacific Palisades fire.
The reality TV couple, who have been married since 2008 and share two young sons, where among the many who lost everything in the wildfires still raging through Los Angeles, as Montag recalled, “Spencer was like ‘Grab anything you want to keep’ and I was like, ‘How do you choose?’ My brain actually stopped working because I was so overwhelmed with so many things you can’t replace,” saying that she ended up grabbing her children’s teddy bears.
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“I feel like a ghost,” Pratt — whose parents also lost their home in the fire — added. “I don’t have a single photo now from before an iPhone existed; I don’t have any of the dumb little things that are on your shelves. They’re all gone, not a single nothing.”
GMA also noted that the couple, like many others, had been dropped from their home insurance policy, as Montag explained, “We were ‘house poor’ as they call it; we have a house and everything else is a hustle, is a grind, so yes we’re definitely counting every dollar that we make.”
To make money during this time, Pratt has been active on social media, urging his followers to download Montag’s 2010 album Superficial as a way to financially support them. His online crusade worked, as over the weekend the album hit No. 1 in both the albums and songs (for the titular “Superficial”) categories on iTunes, beating out much more recent releases. Their former The Hills co-stars Brody Jenner, Kristin Cavallari, Whitney Port and Audrina Patridge have all shouted out Montag’s music on their own platforms.
“The fan support has been such a light in such a darkness for us, it’s life changing,” Montag said of the reaction.
And with so much fan support on TikTok in particular — adding roughly one million followers in the last week — Pratt had one more message ahead of the planned ban of the platform, set to go into effect on Jan. 19.
“Does anybody know if Good Morning America edited the part of my interview where I was like, ‘Yo Supreme Court, president, politicians — you taking away this app is pretty much locking away any of my opportunities for my family,” he said in a video posted on Wednesday. “Hopefully they step up and realize this app changes people’s lives for the good, I don’t care what my data does in other countries.”
Pratt has also shared a plea for help from the community of Palisades Charter High School, of which 40 percent was scorched in the ongoing Palisades Fire.
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