Years earlier than Spencer Pratt emerged as a high-profile rebel candidate within the Los Angeles mayor’s race, the previous actuality TV star immersed himself on the planet of famous conspiracy theorist Alex Jones — telling Jones’ viewers in 2009 that the September 11 assaults have been “100%” an inside job and urged his followers on social media to observe a extensively debunked movie that pushed the identical declare.
In a sequence of July 2009 posts on X, then referred to as Twitter, Pratt praised “Loose Change” — a debunked conspiracy movie central to the 9/11 Truth motion — writing that “anyone who can watch that and not see the truth is blind!” Days later, Pratt wrote that if he have been ever elected president, he would reveal “the facts of 9/11 that were not presented to the mainstream media.”
The posts got here across the time of an look that Pratt and his spouse Heidi Montag made on Jones’ radio present. Pratt promoted the interview on his official MySpace on the time.
During the interview, Jones requested Pratt straight whether or not he believed 9/11 was an inside job.
“Not from my research, but from your research, it 100% is,” Pratt responded, earlier than referencing conspiracy theories surrounding the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7.
“I can’t even believe that it took me seeing your film to know about building seven,” added Pratt.
The interview got here after Pratt and Montag credited Jones for his or her “awakening” by watching Jones’ documentaries. Throughout the interview, the pair mentioned the “New World Order,” fluoride conspiracies, and microchips because the biblical “Mark of the Beast.”
In an interview Thursday with NCS’s Jake Tapper, Pratt stated his views had modified over the past 20 years, significantly after experiencing shedding his house within the Palisades fireplace.
“It’s actually worse than a conspiracy,” Pratt stated. “It’s that we have people in charge that make mistakes that get people killed.”
Pratt instructed Tapper he was “young and naive” and argued that main tragedies are sometimes the results of authorities failures slightly than coordinated plots.
“I believe a lot of people failed to allow the al Qaeda terrorists to get in,” Pratt stated. “So I think the negligence in government allowed — not on purpose, but just failures.”
Asked if he regretted his feedback, Pratt stated he had “20 years of regret” however stated these feedback didn’t mirror who he is in the present day.
“The person I am now is very different than the person before January 7th,” he stated, invoking the date of the Palisades fireplace.
Resurfaced posts and feedback
At one level in his 2009 feedback to Jones, Pratt stated it was “mind boggling” that folks nonetheless believed in international warming, whereas Montag warned that she would slightly die than settle for a authorities microchip implant. Government microchip implants don’t exist.
The resurfaced posts and feedback, a few of which have been first reported by MSNOW, come as Pratt mounts an unconventional however more and more distinguished marketing campaign for Los Angeles mayor. His latest rise has been fueled partially by frustration over the town’s response to the Palisades wildfire that destroyed the home Pratt shared with Montag in January 2025.
Pratt, a registered Republican, has downplayed his celebration affiliation within the race regardless of courting assist from right-wing media.
The California major is on Tuesday, June 2. It is a nonpartisan jungle major wherein the highest two performing candidates transfer on to the overall election this November.
It’s not the one time Pratt made controversial feedback about 9/11. After his actuality TV present, “The Hills,” was cancelled in 2010, he later called it “our 9/11.” He later apologized for the “thoughtless analogy.”
Pratt and Montag appeared on Jones’ present once more in July 2017 in an in-person interview whereas the two happened to be on vacation in Hawaii at the same time as Jones. They talked about stepping again from their actuality star careers to deal with their household.
At the top of the interview, Jones referenced recommendation he gave the couple again in 2009, saying that an unknown “they” might goal the couple only for showing on his present.
“You definitely warned us and I was like, ‘We’re fine, we’re fine.’ No. What’s crazy, if we want to go like dark, dark, you know, multiple people ‘died’ that were in our entourage,” stated Pratt, utilizing finger air quotes round “died.”
“Our lawyer was allegedly – He’s no longer alive, right, when this was all happening,” he stated.
“There’s a lot of death in TV,” Jones interjected.
“Our lawyer’s not – Heidi’s plastic surgeon no longer alive,” stated Pratt. “So I mean it was so – the stakes got so beyond real when people. You know, when you feel that you know we can…”
Montag completed, “We actually, we left to Costa Rica. We were gonna move there. And we left and we took all our stuff because we were concerned.”
“We were scared that we were gonna get, like, off Michael Jackson-style. Like, ‘Oh they’re crazy,’” stated Pratt.
Jones replied, “Oh, the star killer stuff’s real.”
Pratt later tweeted a video he took throughout his on-camera interview with Jones.