Spencer Pratt he faced his fair share of haters long before he decided to run for mayor of Los Angeles.
“I would say the only edge that reality TV and fame has given me is that I’m prepared for the amount of negativity and threats,” Pratt, 42, exclusively reveals in his book. Us Weekly Cover story, in newspapers now. “No ordinary person would want to fight against this machine of evil that wants people to die on the street [and] he doesn’t care about our lives.”
The hills alum continues, “You’d have to be crazy to do this as a normal, savvy person. There’s no right way, but if you’re already on the Internet, [it’s] just another day.”
Pratt rose to fame in the early 2000’s while playing the lead role The hills beside the wife Heidi Montag. The couple married in 2008 during season 5 of the MTV series and share sons, Gunner, 8, and Ryker, 3.
“Life is about learning. I met my wife on reality TV, [got] my two children, for that alone I wouldn’t change anything,” he remembers, “I was 21, 22, 23 years old and for me everything was belief, and I didn’t take it. [seriously.]”
While the world knows Pratt as a reality TV personality, he’s looking to change the narrative. Earlier this year, Pratt announced his run for mayor after he and his family were among the many who lost their homes to wildfires last year.
“You know when I announced in front of the 1000 victims of the fire, everyone was so happy that I started a new way to be taken seriously, because at least my community knew that I had been fighting for them for many months, and they knew that I was really serious about it,” he said. Us. “And for them it wasn’t like a joke or a prank, anyway – the first launch of my campaign, I was determined to fight for my community.”
Pratt shared that he knew there were many people “depending” on him so he decided to put in the work to create a successful campaign. Pratt’s work seems to have paid off as he ran for office against the current mayor of LA. Karen Bass and the Women’s Council Nithya Raman.
He says: “It’s been worse since the second I announced it, at least in our community,” he says, “Obviously, months have passed, and I’m going to all these other communities and meeting with community leaders. [have] great faith in me.”
Pratt also shared that he “never” bases his success on what happened online. Instead, he prefers to hear directly from the people he interacts with in real life.
“I never leave the internet, you know it doesn’t matter if I have all these videos that are being talked about or how famous or how infamous I am on the internet, that doesn’t matter,” he explained. “But what I hear from people on the streets around LA, and everywhere I go, that energy is what continues to show me how you know how much support there is and how much people want me to be mayor. The Internet is great, and I love it, and it’s a great social media tool, but the interaction I have with people is what continues to drive me.”
Pratt’s campaign attracted the attention of people across the country, including the President Donald Trump. However, Pratt has made it clear that he is not running as a Republican. (The mayoral race in Los Angeles is unconsolidated and no candidate group is on the ballot.)
“I run all over Los Angeles,” he said Us. “I’m not any party, I’m centrist, I’m complete, my kind, my party is a reasonable American.”
Pratt added that he is not looking for Trump’s endorsement but rather the support of his community.
“The only help I’m looking for, or anything else I have, is from Los Angeles moms, animal lovers,” she says. “And what I just got is the Latino Business Association, which is 800,000 Latino businesses that Mayor Bass failed.”
Learn more about Pratt by picking up the latest issue of Us Weeklyon newsstands now.
