The Palisades fire devastated Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt, and now the couple are regaining the strength to rebuild their life through Heidi’s music. They share their first hand encounter with the Palisades fire, how fans have impacted Heidi by streaming her music and more.
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00:00Wow.
00:00All right, here's the final mix.
00:01And it's got it, right when we're on the crosswalk.
00:04How do you know what they say, Mr. Worldwide?
00:06Pitbull just said in an email he's
00:08donating 100% of his royalties to LA Fire Relief,
00:12waving his feet.
00:14What a freaking goat legend.
00:16That's breaking news right here.
00:17God.
00:19And it looks like a bomb had got off.
00:22So much smoke in the air.
00:23And I look, and our house is like at the top
00:26in the middle of it.
00:27Hi.
00:28How are you?
00:29Is it good?
00:29Any drinks I can get you started with?
00:31Yes, maybe just get a glass of voodoo.
00:35Oh, here we go.
00:36Muckbang, a croissant.
00:38Heidi says that when I say muckbang, it's a little intense.
00:41Yeah.
00:46Cheers to our health.
00:48Oh, yeah.
00:49And our future.
00:50There's a fire right over our house,
00:51so please say some prayers for us.
00:53And it's amazing.
00:55Please say some prayers for us.
00:57I think it's a mandatory evacuation.
00:59And I'm going to pack up here.
01:01I went to evacuate at Spencer's parents' house, which
01:04is down the street from us.
01:06I thought, OK, we'll spend the night here.
01:09Hopefully, I'll go home.
01:10I got there, and the whole town was gone.
01:13We had just missed that crazy wave on sunset, where everyone
01:16was having to leave their cars and run.
01:19But thankfully, we missed that because I had my two kids,
01:22and I had 104 fever.
01:24So I was so focused on mom mode.
01:26Spencer was still at the house, and I was waiting for him.
01:28And a part of me didn't want to leave, because I'm like,
01:31if I leave, he might stay even longer.
01:34So I put on my hiking shoes, and I
01:36ran up to our hiking trail that we go on every day.
01:39And I think we're good.
01:40You know, the planes are dropping the water,
01:42and I'm making, like, Snapchats.
01:43You know, it's still so far away from us,
01:45but I see it start creeping down this hill,
01:49and I see it hit its first house.
01:50And I was like, ooh.
01:52So that was when I started getting, like, concerned.
01:54You know, you don't realize how fast, far away is with fire
01:58until you see it just, like, coming like a tsunami.
02:01I loaded up the suitcases, and I hit PCH.
02:04And when I got there, I looked behind me,
02:07and it looked like a bomb had got off.
02:09There was so much smoke in the air.
02:11And I look, and our house is, like,
02:13at the top and the middle of it.
02:15You have to leave.
02:16You have two sons.
02:17You have me.
02:19You've got to go.
02:20I always thought, for sure, our house,
02:21we were going to lose our house.
02:22Never did I think my parents' house,
02:24where I grew up, by the ocean.
02:26My dad, when I asked him, like, you have insurance, right?
02:29He's like, this house is 150 years old.
02:32For it to burn down, that would mean the whole city
02:34would burn down.
02:35I'm like, well, Dad.
02:36This is our house we lived at during the hills filming.
02:40I didn't know if I would get in, but thankfully, you know,
02:43we've been calling the paparazzi on ourselves for years.
02:46So I have a lot of relationships with photographers,
02:48and they have media badges.
02:50We hiked up.
02:51It was just, like, out of body.
02:52It still is.
02:53The only thing that did survive, the pot
02:55that I, every day for eight years,
02:57made fresh hummingbird nectar in.
02:59Because as the house is about to burn down,
03:01I'm so insane that I was making fresh nectar
03:04and hanging it out for the hummingbirds.
03:06Because I'm thinking, the hummingbirds need nectar
03:08because all their plants are burning.
03:10So I truly, instead of, like, packing more stuff,
03:13was making hummingbird nectar and hanging it on the things,
03:18like a lunatic psychopath.
03:20So I'm, like, looking in my closet,
03:23and then I'm thinking, this is all stupid.
03:25When I do think, like, I should have grabbed this,
03:26I should have grabbed that, I always come back to,
03:29I should have actually grabbed less.
03:31I should have left sooner.
03:32My mom called me from Colorado, and she's like,
03:34leave everything and leave now.
03:42We should do our next video here at the pier.
03:44Yeah, I mean, I personally have been calling every single day
03:48asking when we can start cleaning up our,
03:49as they call it, debris,
03:51otherwise known as our existence.
03:54We can't afford to rebuild our house in this moment.
03:58We have a dream, we have a hope.
04:00We are gonna do what we can, not just for ourselves,
04:03but for our friends, for our community,
04:05for everybody to rebuild the Palisades.
04:08Obviously, we're looking into everything.
04:10We just want accountability.
04:11It's not a political thing, not at all.
04:13Our next-door neighbors, whose house also burned down,
04:17I was just in their daughter's wedding.
04:19I was one of the groomsmen.
04:20She married my best friend, who's a lawyer representing us.
04:23So it's all of our neighbors on our block.
04:25This isn't like a Heidi and Spencer, like,
04:28oh, let's try to do a money grab.
04:30This is our neighbors.
04:31It's everybody that's been there for 40 years on this street.
04:34If everything's all legit and everything was held,
04:37then obviously we'll lose the case.
04:39If not, it would be nice for everybody
04:41who lost their house and all their possessions
04:43to get some money out of whatever went wrong.
04:46You know, it's definitely been a process for our kids.
04:49Thankfully, they've come to a place
04:51that has been like a second home to them.
04:53We do come to Santa Barbara, and, you know, they know it well.
04:56When I had Gunnar in the car,
04:57I could tell he was a little nervous and scared
04:59and just starting to talk about the house being gone.
05:03And I was like, well, what are we gonna rebuild?
05:05What do you want in there next time?
05:07Like, we always talked about your dream home.
05:09You know, the house, yeah, it is gone,
05:10but, like, what's your dream?
05:11We are gonna rebuild your dream.
05:13And so, like, I'm crying in the front and so sad,
05:16and I am trying to, like, breathe.
05:18I can't have an anxiety attack right now.
05:21I need to focus, and I need to help my kids.
05:24People keep asking, like,
05:25how do you have all this energy?
05:26I'm like, obviously, I keep saying
05:28we're better than a lot of people on Earth.
05:30We're not insane.
05:31But we also are starting at zero
05:33for what we have built for our family,
05:36and the energy is rebuild.
05:38Again, people are like, what is wrong with you?
05:40I'm like, this is the opposite of crashing out.
05:43It's actually the opposite of crashing up.
05:45I feel like since you've been with him,
05:47I've just watched that slowly go away.
05:49This is my first apology in about 24 years.
05:53We're thankful for where we started
05:55and all the opportunities and happy to move forward
05:58because we've been trying to move forward from that
06:00for a long time.
06:02It definitely has been a bittersweet experience for us.
06:07Obviously, we had a different experience
06:09than a lot of the cast from it.
06:11For us to be able to feel people really come together
06:14and just support us and our family
06:16and to kind of burn off literally that shell
06:20and that stigma that we had for so many years
06:23is nice that people can finally see through that
06:26and see that there was always a love story and a heart,
06:29and that was always what Spencer and I focused on.
06:32And to be able to share that with the world
06:35for the first time and have people
06:36be able to see us differently,
06:39you know, that's been such a blessing.
06:48Shout out all the Philippines.
06:49Heidi is number four top music video
06:52in the Philippines with All Do It.
06:58Mukbang this soup. Hold on.
07:00Okay, see? Mukbang this soup is like a little much.
07:03So at the time, right before the fires,
07:06we were planning on doing a new single every two weeks.
07:10We already had them, like, all the dates,
07:12all the images, everything,
07:14from here for the next, like, year.
07:16You know, we were in music mode,
07:18so it was an easy segue for Spencer
07:21to just be like, I'm leaning all in
07:23on the music that we have been working on
07:25that can translate into us rebuilding his house.
07:29And he was just like, okay,
07:30I'm gonna rally the nation behind my wife.
07:35You're international, 14 countries.
07:37You're popping in Oman, baby.
07:39And I was so focused on the kids
07:42and school and just these steps
07:45that we were able to divide and conquer,
07:47which we've always done so well.
07:48Everybody, which we couldn't have anticipated,
07:51really rallied behind us and were supporting.
07:53You know, Emily Rada posted it,
07:55Alex Earl posted it,
07:56and all these huge influencers.
07:58And then last night, Jayla Alvarez.
08:00I literally was on my hands and knees like,
08:03Jesus, like, I love Jayla.
08:04And then we were in touch with Pitbull,
08:06and he got on the phone with me,
08:07and that was one of the most heartfelt,
08:10sincere, kind moments in my life
08:12of a superstar taking time out of his day
08:14to be like, Mamacita, I got you,
08:16and God has got you,
08:17and we're gonna use this to bless the world
08:19and the nation, and let's help.
08:20And hearing him say, Heidi,
08:22when God closes a door, he opens a window.
08:25And it just, like, hit my heart so hard
08:27because, you know,
08:28I'm a really religious person in my own self,
08:31and just to hear him confirm that, like,
08:33God has, like, a plan for me.
08:36It's just like, it just reconfirms that, like,
08:39even though something's so hard,
08:41something so good can come out of it.
08:43Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening
08:45to the new play Wild.
08:46It's been really refreshing to have
08:50this new generation listening to music
08:52for the music,
08:53and not with the stigmas attached,
08:54and the hate, and the negativity.
08:56So to have it just be able to be
08:58purely listened to has been such a blessing.
09:01And I love that people are embracing the new music
09:03because we really did go for that new genre of pop.
09:10One of the writers said to Heidi, like,
09:11you know the audience listening to your music?
09:13They don't even know you're from the hills.
09:14They don't know you're a reality star.
09:16They just see this word, Heidi Montag,
09:18and they listen to this music.
09:19They don't even connect the two,
09:21and that's when I was like, oh, game on.
09:23Avril Lavigne was saying she came over
09:24to our house the other night,
09:25and she said that she had her biggest tour ever,
09:27and this younger generation loves
09:31and embraces and needs her
09:32because she is such a niche as well.
09:34Like, there's one Avril Lavigne in the world,
09:36and no one can recreate that,
09:37and that sound, and that movement.
09:39So the younger generation is also craving her,
09:42and loving her, and embracing her,
09:44and that gave me such hope, too.
09:46And Avril did invite Heidi to open for her on her tour.
09:49Any one, any city.
09:50The whole entire tour.
09:51I was like, I can't go on tour
09:52because I got two kids,
09:53but I will come to one for sure.
09:56So that was very nice of her.
09:57I love her.
09:58Truly the only thing that's been, like,
10:00getting me through this is, like,
10:01the tunnel vision of, like,
10:02first it was, like, top iTunes,
10:04and then we were like,
10:05why are you worrying about iTunes?
10:06You should be going for Billboard.
10:07And then I, like, figured that out.
10:09I was like, we're going for top Billboard.
10:11And then we were like,
10:12once you get Billboard,
10:13you need to go for a Grammy.
10:19We can't just build a house in a town
10:20that doesn't exist,
10:21so of course we want to build our house,
10:23but right now there's no town,
10:24so we have to build all of our small businesses back,
10:27and for my sons,
10:29because I never imagined my kids
10:30not living in the Palisades.
10:31I would just say to people who are like,
10:33oh, it's me, me, me,
10:34it's like, it's me, me, me right now
10:36to build everybody up.
10:38On the plane, when the oxygen mask comes out,
10:40they say, put it on yourself,
10:42and then put it on the person next to you.
10:44Right now, we're just trying
10:45to get the oxygen on our family.
10:47It seems like it's just music,
10:48but it's also about building a town back.
10:50I just want to say thank you so much
10:54to every single person who has listened to my song.
10:57Any amount of times,
10:58and continues to buy it and stream it,
11:01you have no idea how much you've helped us.
11:03Continue to just give us hope and light
11:05and love and support.
11:07It's more than music.
11:09It's our lives, it's our family,
11:11it's everything,
11:12so thank you for the depths of our being here,
11:15for charting on Billboard,
11:17which is a dream come true,
11:19and creating me to truly be a pop star,
11:22which has always been the depths of my heart.
11:24Thank you, thank you,
11:25thank you, thank you for everything.
11:27Please continue to do it.
11:29We have a long road ahead,
11:31and we're willing to fight that good fight.
11:33I'm just going to text the Pitbull one,
11:35and be like, this is the one we got with Pit.
11:36Maybe you want to get on this one too?
11:39We're going to get a new house, honey.
11:40We're going to get a new house.
11:42We're going to get a new house.