The Hills’ Jen Bunney Recalls Feeling ‘Dispensable’ After Being Portrayed as the ‘Bad Character’ Amid Lauren Conrad, Brody Jenner Drama

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Writing her own story. Jen Bunney revealed why watching The Hills has become a “huge trigger” for her — and why she was “dispensable” to the creators.“Watching the show back was difficult for me because of how it happened.

The producer called me and said, ‘You’re not gonna like what you see next week,’” Bunney, 37, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting her new book, Don’t Tell Me What to Do: The Secret Guide to Unlocking Your Power, Potential, and Purpose. “And I didn’t know what that meant, because I wasn’t aware of really what was going on from the production, the editing [side].”The former reality star, who now goes by her married name Jennifer Dunphy, recalled being painted as the “boyfriend stealer” on season 2 of the MTV show.

During one of the 2007 episodes, Bunney allegedly hooked up with high school friend Lauren Conrad’s ex-boyfriend Brody Jenner, which she says was fabricated.“I watched it back with everyone else in the nation when it aired.

And I could not believe my eyes,” Bunney told Us. “There were scenes of me leaving places without me actually leaving, they would just show a random car driving and then put my voice behind it as if I were leaving with certain people to make it look like I was doing things that I wasn’t doing.”The University of Southern California alum — who apologized to Conrad, 37, on the show for the Jenner, 39, drama — claimed to Us that she was never given the “opportunity to address” the alleged scandal in real time.“It was really traumatizing in the way that it played out because it made me look like a nefarious actor.