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"Spencer Pratt has claimed that he and Heidi Montag&amp;#039;s attempts to &amp;quot;buy fame&amp;quot; have left them in severe debt. Speaking to The Insider, the former Hills star admitted that he now regrets the pair&amp;#039;s decision to try to live above their means in an attempt to maintain their celebrity. &amp;quot;We felt the fleetingness of 15 minutes of fame so we were trying to buy, like... Let&amp;#039;s buy fame,&amp;quot; he said. The star continued: &amp;quot;I know it&amp;#039;s the dumbest thing ever spending money on things. But it&amp;#039;s like, if we didn&amp;#039;t, we wouldn&amp;#039;t have got this [interview], or we wouldn&amp;#039;t have got this picture in the [Life &amp;amp; Style] magazine, and then we wouldn&amp;#039;t be famous at all, and that&amp;#039;s the only thing we had going for us at the time.&amp;quot; Pratt further remarked that he was unprepared for MTV&amp;#039;s axing of The Hills earlier this year. &amp;quot;For me to think I was going to be famous and continue at that level of income on a steady basis, was... naive, egotistical, and just foolish... I can&amp;#039;t have a long-range plan because I&amp;#039;m so hated I don&amp;#039;t see anywhere I could go.&amp;quot; The reality star also insisted that despite the couple&amp;#039;s financial trouble, both he and Montag are thankful to be married to one another. He explained: &amp;quot;I became this hated to buy things that I don&amp;#039;t even have anymore. So I have nothing to show for it. Thank everything that Heidi has stayed with me through all of this because I wake up and say, &amp;#039;At least I have Heidi&amp;#039;. [That&amp;#039;s] the greatest thing out of all of this.&amp;quot; Pratt recently revealed that he tried to stage a divorce from Montag in order to help her advance her career. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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