Kristin Cavallari Says The Hills Was Fake, She Was Manipulated & Forced To Be The B**ch
Kristin Cavallari says reality television has created a false image of her personality. Years after the end of Laguna Beach and The Hills, Cavallari says the shows were fabricated and she was “forced” to be the “b**ch.”
Concurring with former co-stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, who repeated throughout the entirety of Celebrity Big Brother that the shows were “scripted reality,” and Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge who admitted that producers would effectively script scenes by sending text message directions and talking points, Cavallari says she was “manipulated” to be the bad girl for ratings.
Cavallari told The Chicago Sun-Times Sunday magazine SPLASH: “The producers were really crappy to me. I felt like everybody was against me and manipulating me, and that forced me to be a b**ch.”
She moved to Los Angeles so “people could forget about the Kristin from Laguna Beach.” She took acting jobs, but “I was known as the bad girl,” she says, “and once you have that image, it’s so hard to change it.”
So in 2009, when MTV approached Cavallari to appear in Laguna Beach spin-off The Hills, she accepted. “l decided to have fun with it this time,” she says. “I embraced it, and played a caricature of myself.”
The Hills was basically 100% fabrication, “They did everything short of handing us a script,” says Cavallari.
She admits she never dated Justin “Bobby” Brescia and insists she didn’t drive a wedge between Brody Jenner and ex-girlfriend Jayde Nicole. “I had two lives,” she says. “My Hills life and my real life…. People are always surprised by how nice I am in real life.”