Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt Respond to Backlash Over Receiving Donations After Losing Home in L.A. Fires

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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are responding to backlash. Last week, the former The Hills stars announced that they have sadly lost their home in the Pacific Palisades due to the ongoing fires blazing across Southern California.

In a new interview, the couple addressed criticism over accepting donations from fans after losing nearly everything they owned in the fires. Keep reading to find out more…“We’re very used to negative things, so it’s pretty standard,” Spencer, 41, told Us Weekly. “If people want to send their own money to whoever they want, it’s the equivalent to buying a celebrity’s merch, buying their movie tickets.

People can do whatever they want with their own money and, thank God, there’s people who want to support and send us whatever.” “Nobody’s required to, and it’s not a tax,” he added. “People can say whatever they want and they’re entitled to their opinion.

But, all the people that are messaging, they’re asking to send money, they’re asking to do the Amazon wishlist. … These are their choices.” After losing their home belongings, a few TikTok followers created a GoFundMe campaign on their behalf. “When this first happened, that first day, they created a GoFundMe on their own and it just kept on doing great and so amazing,” Spencer recalled. “And then they transferred it over to us.