The Hills' Heidi Montag has claimed that Lauren Conrad tried to keep her from striking up a romance with fellow co-star Spencer on the show, which contributed towards the former BFFs' public falling out.
Speaking on the Call Me Daddy podcast, the 34-year-old explained that while she'll "always love" Lauren, and be grateful to her for landing her a role on the hit reality show, she still resents the way she allegedly interfered with her personal relationships.
"When that whole Spencer thing happened, she's like, 'If you date Spencer, you're off the show,'" Heidi said. "How dare you? I'm not your dog. Yeah, I appreciate you getting me on this show, but that doesn't mean you own me and you can tell me what to do in my life. I just don't appreciate that."
"I do have such a love for Lauren, and it didn't have to go that way," she continued. "She chose and wanted it to go that way, and then kept following up with that, and then kept blaming things on me and blaming her sex tape on me."
The Hills, which ran between 2006 and 2010, centred on Lauren, Heidi and several of their Los Angeles-based friends as they each kickstarted their respective careers fresh out of high school.
Since then, Heidi and her now-husband Spencer, with whom she shares 3-year-old son Gunner Stone, have featured in shows such as How I Met Your Mother, the US version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and two series of Celebrity Big Brother. The pair of them are also main cast members in sequel series The Hills: New Beginnings.
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"I feel like Lauren didn't make it like she should have. She should be Kylie [Jenner]. She was so good at make-up, she should have done the tutorials," Montag continued. "If she had a good team, she'd be a billionaire.
"She is not where she should have been at all. She has a Kohl's line – great, whatever. But she should be a hundred-millionaire – are you kidding me?
"Who gets that big promotion, that big fame, that big engine behind her, the loved one, the this-and-that. The narrator – no-one even gets the narrator show. Kylie didn't get a narrator show. She should be so rich."
Digital Spy has reached out to Lauren's reps for comment.
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