Spencer Pratt Apologizes for Comparing the Cancellation of ‘The Hills’ to 9/11

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag (Photo: Getty Images)

There are a whole lot of things about the Bush era that feel like they happened in a dream, just something our minds conjured out of a thin air, a convoluted metaphor to try to explain life’s biggest questions. But then, No, you think, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag were real. Anyway, here they are making trouble once again.

In an extensive profile about their meteoric rise and similarly epic burnout for Vice’s Broadly, Pratt calls MTV canceling The Hills after six seasons “our 9/11.”

As is to be expected after someone compares his loss of a paycheck to the most devastating act of terrorism in American history, people were none too thrilled.

Pratt has now apologized for his “thoughtless analogy.”

When they’re not making light of the deaths of nearly 3,000 innocents, Pratt and Montag reflect on their decision to make themselves the villains of The Hills in order to drive ratings up and to get more screentime. What they never expected, they say, was that people would believe it.

“We were fame whores, getting literally a million plus a year in photos and being hated for it,” Pratt says. “It’s frustrating for me that people don’t recognize that this was genius. This was innovating!”

The two say that, while they were making upwards of a million dollars a year in their heyday, they never saved a penny, and after living at the Ritz Carlton in Costa Rica for six months, eating room service for every meal, the two went bankrupt.

They have their regrets:

“I wish I had never brought my family on The Hills,” Montag says.

However, “The biggest misconception about us is that we wouldn’t do it all over again,” Montag concludes.